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Dealing with the elephant: Cutting ties to the legacy albatross

[Some time ago, I wrote a series of posts that attempted to address some of the revenue-related issues facing traditional news organizations and suggested some possible solutions to making incremental (and larger) changes that might help them stay profitable. For … Continue reading

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Dealing with the elephant, elsewhere

Paul Bradshaw comes up with a list of 10 ways that ad sales people can save newspapers: “…how about a slot against the ‘most popular’ story of that minute (if it helps, think of it as the equivalent as the … Continue reading

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Dealing with the elephant: Build the software you need, then sell it.

This is the fourth post in a short series I’m pretty much done with about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual routine of pointing out the obvious to people wearing dark glasses.  The … Continue reading

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Dealing with the elephant: Hire Web-native salespeople

This is the third post in a short series I’m going to write about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual habit of banging my head up against walls made out of giant rolls … Continue reading

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Dealing with the elephant: Incremental change

This is the second post in a short series I’m going to write about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual divisive blathering about how to avoid bureaucracy and feed trolls.  The starting point, … Continue reading

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