http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:24:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/location-aware-app-gamifies-hyperlocal-news-reporting-future-of-gaming.html Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:25:12 +0000 MePorter is a mobile news app that enables anyone to write, photograph, and record their own videos of local news as it happens and instantly share it with their social networks. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/virginia-tech-newspaper-used-twitter-for-continuous-publishing-headlines.html Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:45:14 +0000 The university's paper was able to publish updates during and after the shooting via tweets, gaining 18,000 followers in a few hours.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/%e2%80%98daily-mail%e2%80%99-jumps-the-gun-on-knox-verdict-with-embarrassing-results-headlines.html Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:11:48 +0000 The Mail Online reported that Amanda Knox had lost her appeal of a murder conviction, when in fact she had won.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/wall-street-protesters-have-released-an-official-newspaper.html Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:35:51 +0000 Supporters for the Occupy Wall Street protest have released an official newspaper to explain their goals.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/is-bloomberg-businessweek-the-perfect-digital-magazine-headlines.html Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:02:38 +0000 Based on its content, design, and business model, the weekly magazine available from the iPad app works.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/apple-blocks-the-financial-times-from-its-app-store-headlines.html Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:15:54 +0000 Apple discontinues Financial Times' app from their store after the newspaper refused to give 30% of revenues and consumer data.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/tribune-fights-for-future-of-publishing-by-tapping-the-tablet-market.html Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:35:09 +0000 The media powerhouse attempts to penetrate the Apple-dominated tablet market by developing their own that would be given to subscribers for free. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/diy-projects-commemorating-10th-anniversary-of-911.html Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:16:25 +0000 Ten years after 9/11, New Yorkers use social media and crowdfunding platforms to fulfill independent projects to commemorate the September 11 attacks.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/digital-revolution-is-bigger-problem-for-murdoch-than-phone-hacking-headlines.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:31:41 +0000 While Rupert Murdoch seems to be attached to traditional print journalism, his son, and potential hier, James, seems keen on expanding online.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/media-buying-network-group-m-slashes-uk-ad-forecast-headlines.html Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:53:36 +0000 Group M, part of Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP, cuts growth forecast for UK ad spend in 2011 from 3.6% to just 1.5% year on year.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/nytimes-scented-candle-smells-like-newsprint.html Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:56:23 +0000 Store sells the late Tobias Wong's designs infused with non-traditional scents to create surprising, ambient experiences. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/expressions-of-a-bygone-era-a-handwritten-newspaper-in-india.html Wed, 25 May 2011 16:17:13 +0000 Since 1927, The Musalman has been transcribed by hand in ancient Urdu calligraphy every day. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/the-new-york-times-delivered-a-la-carte-idea.html Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:25:42 +0000 Ads of the World is asking the Times to serve up its paper in sections.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/recycling-newspaper-back-into-wood.html Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:49:09 +0000 Waste newspaper can now be milled into "planks" thanks to a Dutch designer.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/monocolumn-a-new-daily-for-britain.html Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:21:40 +0000 This morning Britain awoke to something it hasn’t had in nearly 25 years – a new quality national daily newspaper.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/pic-newspaper-grab-marks-warn-against-skin-cancer.html Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:46:35 +0000 A subtle print advertisement by Cancer Council Victoria reminded local newspaper readers to see the doctor for check ups.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/ipad-users-shy-away-from-paid-newspaper-apps.html Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:02:46 +0000 An early trend shows that iPad users are not too keen on paid newspaper apps.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/11/piers-fawkes-future-trends-09-presentation.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:23:25 +0000 I recently presented at the Future Trends conference in Miami. My presentation was called 'Good Ideas in 2010' and it is the first part of a project to deliver a book later this month with the same title. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/11/piers-fawkes-future-trends-09-presentation-2.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:23:25 +0000 I recently presented at the Future Trends conference in Miami. My presentation was called 'Good Ideas in 2010' and it is the first part of a project to deliver a book later this month with the same title.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/10/theblogpaper-the-uk%e2%80%99s-first-user-generated-newspaper.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:00:08 +0000 theblogpaper is a user-generated blog-newspaper hybrid that has recently appeared in London.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/10/evening-standard-goes-free.html Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:00:35 +0000 With a new Russian owner, London's evening daily publication has decided to fight the free sheets that have ravaged its market share by dropping its price to zero.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/from-newspaper-to-experience.html Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:14:26 +0000 Image credit: Getty Images, Michael Bodge/Flickr Writing in the Guardian, journalist Simon Jenkins argues that publishers should learn from the lessons made by the music business rather than return to paywall media. He says that he viewed the evolution of the newspaper when he went to the Glastonbury music festival recently, and witnessed how people will still pay for the live experience: The key must be to learn the lesson of the most tightly competitive medium of all: popular music. It has cast off its enslavement to recording studios and recast itself, almost in Victorian mode, as a mass movementRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/newspapers-panic-in-new-publishing-world.html Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:22:01 +0000 Only a few days after our discussion about the negative effect that might be caused if the newspaper industry decides to return to paywall media, PSFK notices a number of articles that point to continued confusion about what the industry should do in the new (and free) media economy.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/printed-blog-achieves-wrong-part-of-newspaperdom%e2%80%94death.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:10:11 +0000 Perhaps the most ironic newspaper death in recent memory, the business-cum-media experiment Printed Blog will go the way of so many of its peers after sixteen issues, shuttering permanently. The Printed Blog‘s founder, Joshua Karp, hoped that tightly-localized content provided by neighborhood bloggers would draw advertisers hoping to reach specific demographics—mimicking the (relative) success of smaller papers in the wake of the general death throes of print journalism. In the end, the hope that people would turn out to pay for a physical copy of the same content they could get online for free failed to materialize, as did anyRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/future-of-news-paper-is-just-a-device.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:19:43 +0000 “Paper is dying, but it’s just a device.” So says Nick Bilton, editor in the New York Times research and development lab. Bilton talked with Wired about what he sees as the future of news delivery, and paper, in his view,  is not going to go away, but it will play a smaller role in how we take in news. One way paper may survive, is as output from “newspaper boxes” that print out a personalized paper with embedded QR and sms codes for each article, that will lead to more in-depth digital coverage. Beyond hard copies, Bilton is workingRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/the-associated-press-owns-hot-news.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:09:03 +0000 Interesting bit of news that exposes the kind of archaic thinking that’s helping contribute to the downfall of “traditional” media. A federal judge ruled that the Associated Press can sue All Headline News for stealing “hot news”. The AP claims that AHN is copying the AP’s headlines and news verbatim, without paying a syndication fee, and then reselling the news without any notice of where it came from. Which is wrong, of course. But what’s notable is that the Associated Press is basing its case on a 90 year old precedent that defines scoops as property, which is absolutely laughableRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/ny-times-front-page-advertising.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:22:15 +0000 The NY Times has managed to break its own story, noting that today – Monday, January 5th – marks the first time that the paper will sell significant advertising space on its front page.  The horizontal color ad, consuming 2 1/2 inches of space at the bottom of the page, has been purchased by CBS and marks a growing trend among print newspapers struggling with lower readership and advertising dollars to find new ways to generate revenue in tough economic times. Most major American papers sell front-page display ads, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and The Los AngelesRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/no-news-is-bad-news-the-future-of-print-media.html Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:33:25 +0000 Even though newspapers are arguably more popular than ever before, instead of seeing higher profits, the reality is they’re earning less – a fact that is leading to industry wide buyouts, reductions in staff and in some cases, permanent closures.  The current model of how newspapers operate is clearly broken and the biggest contributing factor, might be us. During the ongoing transition from print to online, we’ve come to expect the same amount and quality of content we’re accustomed to, only now we want it for free.  A bitter pill that traditional media outlets have been able to swallow inRead more...]]>