Michael Shapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com author of Bottom of the Ninth Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:44:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Six Degrees of Aggregation http://www.michael-shapiro.com/six-degrees-of-aggregation/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/six-degrees-of-aggregation/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:44:48 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=277 How Huffington Post Ate the Internet
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]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/from-the-new-yorkers-sporting-scene/feed/ 0 In CJR on Paid Content for Newspapers http://www.michael-shapiro.com/in-cjr-on-paid-content-for-newspapers/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/in-cjr-on-paid-content-for-newspapers/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:32:43 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=210 In the dark winter and spring of 2009, as dispatches from the news business grew ever more grim, as Jim Romenesko’s posts took on the feel of casualty reports, newsrooms across the land began to feel like the Emerald City when the Wicked Witch soars overhead, trailing smoke and sending everyone scurrying not for cover, but for an answer, to the Wizard. So it was that in the midst of this gloomy time help appeared, and not merely
the illusion of a wizardly hand. It came from Walter Isaacson and from Steven Brill, who were quickly joined by a determined chorus that, no longer willing to stand idly by as its trade died, took up a call that was clear, direct, and seemingly unassailable in its logic: make the readers pay.

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]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/in-cjr-on-paid-content-for-newspapers/feed/ 0 Huffington Post on Baseball and Pay-Tv http://www.michael-shapiro.com/huffington-post-on-baseball-and-pay-tv/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/huffington-post-on-baseball-and-pay-tv/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:29:47 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=208 This month marks the 45th anniversary of baseball’s first pay-to-view major league baseball game, and with whom better to celebrate than the team that hosted that first telecast from the House that Walter O’Malley built?

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]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/the-ny-times-on-the-continental-league/feed/ 0 Praise in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer http://www.michael-shapiro.com/praise-in-the-cleveland-plain-dealer/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/praise-in-the-cleveland-plain-dealer/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:19:17 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=204 “A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era. . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons. Grade: A.”

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