Tag: disruption
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Next Newspaper
Funny thing about the newspaper business. If you’re interested in innovation, you find yourself constantly trying to demonstrate the present to people with their feet (and desks, workflow, and hierarchy) planted firmly in the past. And while The Future of Newspapers mostly gets ink for being bleak, the future of news does not blink, or…
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Your real competition
You *think* your competition is the guy at the TV station who always rip-and-reads your stories, or the reporter on your beat at the major metro from the big city 12 miles away, or that alt-weekly with the nasty cartoonist, don’t you? Sorry, but that’s simply not the case. Oh, sure, your ad reps and…
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If it weren’t for those meddling Montana kids…
The funny thing about disruption and disintermediation is that you never see it coming if you’re the incumbent, the old school, the big slow mover lumbering into the future baby step by baby step. Know what I mean? Wes Eben, publisher of the Big Horn County News in Hardin, Montana knows what I mean. Well,…