On this day in history, Cleopatra committed suicide by snakebite (30 B.C.), Tokugawa Ieyasu entered Edo Castle and became the first Japanese Shogun (1590), Honolulu officially became a city (1850), Confederates defeated Union forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run (1862), Lenin was shot in an assassination attempt (1918), the German siege of Leningrad began (1941), General MacArthur arrived in Japan (1945), the U.S.-Soviet hotline phone was installed (1963), Bob Dylan released his album Highway 61 Revisted (1965), Ho Chi Minhcorresponded with Richard Nixon about ending the Vietnam War (1969), Cameron Diaz was born (1972), Madonna declared that “Having money is just the best thing in the world”, (1993) and we've added Ben Compaine as a contributor.
Although not on this day in 2001, Ben's Who Owns the Media: Competition and Concentration in the Mass Media Industry, now in its third edition, won the Robert Picard Award for Best New Book in Media Economics. He is also the author, co-author or editor of six other books, including Information Resources Policy Handbook: Perspectives on the Information Age, and The Internet Upheaval: Raising Questions, Seeking Answers in Communications Policy and The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?, all published by MIT Press. Ben's articles about the changes media are undergoing have appeared in journals such as Telecommunications Policy, Science Digest, Success, Teleconnect, Daedalus, Reason, and the Journal of Communication.
A graduate of Dickinson College, Ben received his M.B.A from Harvard University and Ph.D from Temple University, and has been research affiliate at Harvard University's Program on Information Resources Policy, senior rsearch professor in communications at Penn State University, and Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications at Temple University. He has also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Media Economics and the Publications Committee of the Broadcast Education Association.
Earlier this month, when I posted an essay about Ben, I hadn't realized that he blogged and might be amenable to contributing to Rebuilding Media. We're increasing the number of contributors here, and had been looking for an expert in communications theory, policy, and practice. Viola!
Months ago, the mid-summer seemed like a ideal time to launch this Rebuilding Media blog. The summer was supposed to be a slow time for business, with plenty of free time for blogging. But as former news anchor Dan Rather once noted, "If you try to read the tea leaves before the cup is done you can get yourself burned." Or something like that. Mixed with vacation time, I'm having my busiest working summer this millennia, so my postings here have been all too infrequent. Mea culpa! Bob Cauthorn, who's about to launch a new company, says he's in a similar situation.
Although Bob and I have posts in the works, adding accomplished contributors here helps our quest how to rebuild media for the 21st Century. I'd like to have ultimately a half dozen or so contributors, each from different aspects (print, broadcast, pure online, academia, etc.) of media, all ideally with multi-disciplinary (reporting or production, theory, business development, etc.) experience. We've got some candidates in mind (and if you know of others, e-mail us).
Ben is a cornerstone of our effort to rebuild the media and we heartily welcome him aboard!
Although not on this day in 2001, Ben's Who Owns the Media: Competition and Concentration in the Mass Media Industry, now in its third edition, won the Robert Picard Award for Best New Book in Media Economics. He is also the author, co-author or editor of six other books, including Information Resources Policy Handbook: Perspectives on the Information Age, and The Internet Upheaval: Raising Questions, Seeking Answers in Communications Policy and The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?, all published by MIT Press. Ben's articles about the changes media are undergoing have appeared in journals such as Telecommunications Policy, Science Digest, Success, Teleconnect, Daedalus, Reason, and the Journal of Communication.
A graduate of Dickinson College, Ben received his M.B.A from Harvard University and Ph.D from Temple University, and has been research affiliate at Harvard University's Program on Information Resources Policy, senior rsearch professor in communications at Penn State University, and Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications at Temple University. He has also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Media Economics and the Publications Committee of the Broadcast Education Association.
Earlier this month, when I posted an essay about Ben, I hadn't realized that he blogged and might be amenable to contributing to Rebuilding Media. We're increasing the number of contributors here, and had been looking for an expert in communications theory, policy, and practice. Viola!
Months ago, the mid-summer seemed like a ideal time to launch this Rebuilding Media blog. The summer was supposed to be a slow time for business, with plenty of free time for blogging. But as former news anchor Dan Rather once noted, "If you try to read the tea leaves before the cup is done you can get yourself burned." Or something like that. Mixed with vacation time, I'm having my busiest working summer this millennia, so my postings here have been all too infrequent. Mea culpa! Bob Cauthorn, who's about to launch a new company, says he's in a similar situation.
Although Bob and I have posts in the works, adding accomplished contributors here helps our quest how to rebuild media for the 21st Century. I'd like to have ultimately a half dozen or so contributors, each from different aspects (print, broadcast, pure online, academia, etc.) of media, all ideally with multi-disciplinary (reporting or production, theory, business development, etc.) experience. We've got some candidates in mind (and if you know of others, e-mail us).
Ben is a cornerstone of our effort to rebuild the media and we heartily welcome him aboard!
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