Michael Hirschorn
Recent articles by Michael Hirschorn
The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
Why The Economist is thriving while Time and Newsweek fade.
The Future Is Cheese
Why the networks are surrendering prime time to Jay Leno and the Lord of the Dance.
End Times
Can America’s paper of record survive the death of newsprint? Can journalism?
He Saw It Coming
The forgotten filmmaker who anticipated our modern media madness.
Only Connect
The digital age demands that political candidates be authentic and accessible. But please—hold the carrots.
The Revolution Will Be Televised
TV can avoid the music industry’s fate and survive the digital age, but only by beating the Internet at its own game.
The Pleasure Principle
Newspapers should try giving readers what they want, not just what editors think they need.
Fallen Stars
Can celebrities survive the age of too much information?
About Facebook
By bringing order to the Web, Facebook could become as important to us as Google.
Quirked Around
The unbearable lightness of Ira Glass, Wes Anderson, and other paragons of indie sensibility.
The Hapless Seed
Publishers and authors should stop cowering; Google is less likely to destroy the book business than to slingshot it into the 21st century.
The Case for Reality TV
What the snobs don’t understand.
The Web 2.0 Bubble
Why the social-media revolution will go out with a whimper.
The Digital-Music Mosh Pit
A new wave of Web innovation is finally challenging Steve Jobs’s empire of cool.
Get Me Rewrite!
A modest proposal for reinventing newspapers for the digital age.
Thank You, YouTube
DIY video is making merely professional television seem stodgy, slow, and hopelessly last century.