Movies

Americans 18 years and older are watching nearly 20 minutes less of live television per day than they were only two years ago.

http://qz.com/360403/americas-changing-media-habits-in-one-chart/

Twelve NYU undergrads in Professor Jay Rosen’s spring 2015 class, “The Future of the New York Times,” have been looking deeply into efforts at the Times to find a secure and sustainable future in a radically […]

Exclusive data from Nielsen shows how kids’ viewership habits develop and shift from age 2 through high school years.

“Traditional TV remains the favored choice for kids of all ages to connect with content, but […]

“For most of his 15-year tenure helming The Daily Show, Jon Stewart had a rogues’ gallery worthy of the name: A buffoonish, chuckling George W. Bush, a sinister Dick Cheney whose hunting mishap Stewart never […]

“The biggest reason for the decline was the advent and spread of cable television. When there were only three channels, everybody watched the news because there was nothing else on. That included people who cared […]

A compilation of Brian Williams’s television appearances that shows how his accounts of a 2003 episode on military helicopters in Iraq gradually became more perilous, from New York Times.

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“I think sub-consciously they understand the really terrifying thing here. Glozell and Bethany and I weren’t put in a chair next to President Obama because we have cultivated an audience. We were put there because […]

A fascinating roundup about the best bits happened on the Oscar nomination day by Telegraph, from the committee, news media, and the public reactions. 

What’s the your best […]

“While the snubs may sting and point toward a broader blindness, it’s still more important in the long run that a young female black director received the backing of a Hollywood studio and made an important film. […]

The long-held debate between the film and digital. It is no doubt that digital is the future, but will there still be room for the film?

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/how-tech-shaped-film-making/

Check out the rotoscoped GIFs of popular movie and TV scenes created by animator Alex Belancourt, documented on his new Tumblr, Cinimated.

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/rotoscope-gifs-of-famous-cinematic-moments

Are you looking forward to an immerse 3D experience via VR-enabled browsers and gear?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/virtual-reality-comes-to-the-web-maybe-for-real-this-time/

“Plague is all about spreading information virally. You prepare a post – some text, an image, a video or a link – and then publish it. It’s immediately sent to a number of other users (the precise number depends […]

“A lot can change in a decade, but it doesn’t always.”

Which year wins? 2004 or 2014?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyorley/what-it-was-like-watching-television-in-2004-vs-2014#.miNgNn4gD

“It has been a year filled with more tectonic shifts for the media landscape, from the changing face of media ownership to the mounting dangers for journalists at home and abroad, from battles in the e-book […]

” ‘The most significant challenge encountered in this investigation has been the 24-hour news cycle and its insatiable appetite for something, for anything to talk about,’ McCulloch said. ‘Following closely behind […]

Check out this chart that unveils the formula behind every kind of TV program and presents the landscape of the current TV industry:

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“For Reddit, the effort to make money is part of other changes happening at the company. It has slowly started to introduce new features, like “trending sub-Reddits,” to make the site easier to navigate. It also […]

Media Companies Spin Off Newspapers, to Uncertain Futures

“So whose fault is it? No one’s. Nothing is wrong in a fundamental sense: A free-market economy is moving to reallocate capital to its more productive […]

“If somehow Facebook becomes a spot for civil discussion of emotionally complex events, you have to imagine that’s a good thing for Facebook, a company that profits from the time its users spend on the platform.
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