Consulting

Amanda is available for speaking engagements, consulting projects, ghostwriting, and as an expert witness. She has been invited to speak to or worked with a variety of media organizations on topics related to television's post-network era, digital distribution, and changing media business models. Select projects/talks include: Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications (Australian Government), NBC Station Group, IFC, Detroit Public Television, Samsung, Google, the Estonian National Public Broadcasting Council, Warner Bros., Red Line Editorial, CNN's "The Nineties," and the Convergence Cultures Consortium.

Executive, Management, and Team Workshops
All media industries have experienced considerable change in the last two decades as digital distribution has introduced a broad set of new competitors that have different capabilities and use different strategies. Amanda offers a range of interactive workshops and seminars that can be adapted to particular industries or companies. Her sessions allow your team to step back from the short-term crises they experience everyday to understand the unique dynamics of your industry. Half-day seminars to multi-day workshops available. All can be tailored to the specific issues your market, company, or division faces.

Selected seminars:
Adapting Legacy Practices to the Digital Age
Who Stole My Audience: Adapting to Digital Only Competitors
It’s Not Just Technology: How New Revenue Models and Strategies Are Changing Media
Media Don’t Die, But Distribution Technologies Change
The Internet Isn’t a Medium and Other Lessons of the 21st Century

 Consulting and Speaking Inquiries can be sent to DrTVLotz@gmail.com

Media Business Matters Podcast

Logo by Zack Wall

Logo by Zack Wall

The podcast that explores why recent news in the media business matters to people who love media

You’ve already heard what happened this week, but we take the next steps of explaining why it matters and why you should care. This isn’t a place of pontificating and empty predictions, but of getting to the meat of what is going on in media today and the implications for media businesses and media consumers. Knowledgeable outsiders, Alex, a journalist, and Amanda, a professor, consider emerging changes without a stake in the disruptions to explore why the transformative shifts experienced by media today matter to you.

You can subscribe to our podcast in iTunes and can subscribe directly to our RSS feed by copying that link. Send us your questions or suggested topics at DrTVLotz@gmail.com

About Amanda and Alex

Amanda Lotz is a professor of media studies at the University of Michigan and author of several books about media and media industries including The Television Will Be Revolutionized  and Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television.

Alex Intner is a journalist who specializes in reporting on the arts and media industries. You can find his writing in The Michigan Daily, where he was an arts writer and web developer.