Owen Youngman


About Owen Youngman

Professor Emeritus of Journalism and formerly Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Formerly senior vice president/strategy and development and director of interactive media, Chicago Tribune.


In which we listen to two professors and a consultant explain how the guys in the media-executive suites sold their shareholders short by going long on strategic vision. Content, you see is not king. Nor was meant to be....

Curses, moguled again


In which we flip our way through Google Fast Flip, having been flippant at a midday speech. (Well, not flippant for the whole half-hour. But it makes for good metadata.)

Throw out this lifeline