Tag: Newspapers
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How I have used the print edition, historically speaking
My personal reasons for picking up an ink-on-paper newspaper, whether from off the lawn or the kitchen table or the newsstand or the stack in the newsroom. For reference purposes, I grew up in a household with a Miami Herald subscription, which explains the details of 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10 to some extent.…
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It’s not the economy, stupid
I’m sorry, but every time a newspaper executive discussing layoffs and buyouts blames things like “a drastic economic slump and the meltdown of the Bay Area housing market” I laugh. Are you kidding? Is that a joke? Your profits are shrinking because The World Has Passed You By. For more than ten years newspaper companies…
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RIP Mercury News – Michael Bazeley
Mike’s thoughtful (and painful) take on the falling fortunes of the Merc go into some detail about the organizational challenges faced by those who would innovate there if they were free to. RIP Mercury News – Michael Bazeley
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Mercury falling
[NOTE: What follows is a view of the last two years of trouble at the San Jose Mercury News from my personal point of view, as a graduate student in the neighborhood, a reporter (and later as an editor) working for the same parent company, and even as a reader. I don’t pretend to know…
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When Journalists Aren’t Happy, the Industry Isn’t Happy – E&P
Steve Outing about AngryJournalist.com. When Journalists Aren’t Happy, the Industry Isn’t Happy – E&P
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Small Towns, Big Profits: How Many Papers Survive Slump – E & P
The Boonville Daily News gets a shout-out in this E&P story on just how fine small town papers are doing. Small Towns, Big Profits: How Many Papers Survive Slump – E & P
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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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Debunking the coulda-shoulda-woulda myth of online news
I’m trying quite hard to stay out of the business of chasing after curmudgeons with a laptop in my hand, shouting “But you got it all wrong!” Trying. Quite. Hard. So let this be just a generic blanket response to a common misconception about the business of online news. The premise, as laid out in…
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The new Las Vegas Sun is really, really good.
Las Vegas Sun. Whoa. I liked it a few days ago when I looked at the homepage and an article page or two, but I keep going back and it keeps growing on me. Read Rob Curley’s rather informative take here, including the ridiculously constraining bits about the crazy JOA that makes the print edition…
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‘Chicago Tribune’ Eliminates Print Help-Wanted Ads On Weekdays – E & P
Drastic measures, but can they compete online? via Will S. ‘Chicago Tribune’ Eliminates Print Help-Wanted Ads On Weekdays – E & P