Welcome to SRmedia Digital Publishing, a digital workshop devoted
to the creativity and craft of delivering news, information and
entertainment through the internet to readers, listeners and viewers on their TVs,
smartphones, tablets and home computers.
ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL
Stuart Rohrer produces innovative content
for the converging worlds of the internet, digital television and mobile media devices.
He offers clients an uncommon combination of online publishing, digital TV and print experience,
developed over 20 years as a digital producer, editor and product executive at
media ventures on the leading edge of the digital revolution.
He has led digital product teams at HealthiNation, Cablevision's Rainbow Media, News Corp., The New York Times Co., and many internet startups and agencies.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Digital Content Strategy
Product Requirements and Roadmaps
Content and Application Development
Content Management
Multi-Platform Publishing
Metrics and Analytics
Special interests for 2012 include internet TV channels and enhanced e-books,
particularly on travel, health care, arts & entertainment, education and literacy, personal investing,
and magazine-style enthusiast content.
CONTACT
Email:
Stu [at] srmedia [dot] com
Tel: (212) 316-7875
insights & artifacts from the digital media landscape
Amazon unveils plans to publish 122 books of its own this fall.
End of the world, or dawn of a new day? Listen here as Jason Boog, editor of book industry blog GalleyCat, talks with Kurt Anderson on Studio360.
At the intersection of liberal arts and technology
It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough —
it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities,
that yields us the results that make our heart sing —
and nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices.
Americans rate their representatives in Washington
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internet time
Time-lapse video of nine months of nytimes.com home page
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internet dinosaurs
Yahoo's woes: "Where else on the Web can you find, on the one hand, so many happy users whose growing numbers testify to their satisfaction in Yahoo’s services and, on the other, financial performance that is so lackluster?"
Randall Stross in "One Site Fits All, Except for Advertisers" --New York Times (Aug 7, 2011)
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Reinventing book publishing
Borders has gone the way of Tower Records, Hollywood Video, Virgin Megastore, Blockbuster,
but happily, "the best locally-owned purveyors of physical media seem to be in better shape
than the soulless megachains. San Francisco’s Amoeba Music, Le Video, and Green Apple Books,
for instance, are sprawling, wonderfully quirky independents that are still very much with us."
Harry McCracken in "Decline and Fall of Physical Media Retailing: A Timeline" Technologizer (Feb 17, 2011)
Watch Jeff Brown's "Year in Film" conversation with A.O. Scott on PBS NewsHour.
New York's Museum of Modern Art is screening
The Contenders,
its selection of the best movies of 2011.
Save the date: Registration opens Jan. 24, 2012, for SRmedia's 8th annual
Can You Beat the Crowd? Oscar challenge:
"The best Oscar prediction contest on the net!"
HealthiNation
produces and syndicates health and lifestyle video
to millions of consumers
each month on digital cable television, leading web properties, connected devices,
in doctors' offices and through employer wellness portals nationwide.
The alumni community site for Yale's Class of 1974,
marking its 12th year on the web. (Password required.)
Informed Patient Institute
reviews and ranks the best web sources of information about doctors and health facilities.
“If you are a fantasy baseball player, you absolutely owe it to yourself to experience Baseball Manager, the most realistic and addictive game on the internet.”
--Merlin
"Entrepreneurship is the ultimate extension of a liberal arts education."
Amazon unveils plans to publish 122 books of its own this fall.
End of the world, or dawn of a new day? Listen here as Jason Boog, editor of book industry blog 
