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 of newsprint. The starting point, the givens in the equation, are listed here. Suggest what [...]
All about newspapers
Interview: Chris Krewson on changes at Philly.com and the Inquirer
August 8, 2008
Last night, I took an unceremonious break from my self-imposed Romenesko diet.
I had seen a stream of tweets and blog posts and shared links about something that sounded crazy coming out of Philadephia.
The word going around, more or less, was that the Philadelphia Inquirer was going to hold stories back from the Web, Philly.com, until [...]
The business model is still the elephant in the room
July 24, 2008
As much fun as it is for me to make clever lists and shout from the hilltops about what I think your news organization should be doing, how they should be doing it, and why they should be doing it, no matter what argument I (or anyone else) has in favor of a certain technology [...]
It’s not the economy, stupid - Part 2
July 17, 2008
Mark Hamilton on why the “current crisis” in the news business might pay off on the other side of the chasm:
“Even if the American economy turns around in a big way, newspaper health won’t magically improve, because of the internet, demographic and societal changes, etc. But newspaper companies are likely to find that their new, [...]
Standalones
July 8, 2008
Steve Yelvington, on the consequences of removing copy editors from the newspaper equation:
“The dirty little secret of newspaper journalists is that a lot of them can’t write very well. That’s by no means universally true, but it’s true enough.”
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Zac Echola, on his vision of a distributed and loosely joined newsroom:
“The Internet is my platform. Not [...]