Author: Neville Hobson

  • Making some drama from the NOTW crisis

    Last week, the focus was on the News of The World and phone hacking, culminating in the newspaper’s final edition on Sunday July 10. This week, attention has shifted dramatically as events have moved up level by level to embrace…

  • Next FIR Live – July 30: Every company is a media company

    FIR Live #23 Saturday, July 30, 2011 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UK Participate or listen in These days, for a variety of reasons, every company needs to be a media company. Call it brand journalism. Call it…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #607: July 11, 2011

    Content summary: Vote for FIR on Podcast Alley; FIR now on Stitcher Radio; first FIR Plus video is up; FIR Live coming July 30 on ‘every company is a media company’, panelists include Tom Foremski, Mark Ragan and Wendy Tenaka…

  • A tipping point sets a milestone for mainstream media evolution

    I’ve been reading through the News of The World today. It’s the first time I’ve ever bought this newspaper – and the last time, too, as this was its last edition. The closure that concludes 168 years of newspaper publishing…

  • FIR Plus: A test drive of Google+Hangout

    FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz were joined by friends of FIR Kami Watson Huyse (of Zoetica), Lionel Menchaca (chief blogger for Dell) and Bryan Person (of LiveWorld) for a test drive of Google+ Hangout, the social network’s video…