[…] you but because he loves you, then you’ve got a problem.” This quote from Clay Shirky’s recent brilliant post about newspapers sums up the problem facing publishers today. As the Rocky Mountain News, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and possibly the San Francisco […]
[…] Ingram at GigaOm has declared it a disaster, essentially because of the lost traffic meaning that: . . . the newspapers have been cut off from the news flow on the broader Internet, and the potential benefits of attracting links […]
[…] hard to compete with. Aside from not allowing that “brand” rather than print may be the power behind the college newspapers in question (after all, college newspapers do have a wonderful nursery — a campus — in which to cultivate […]
[…] the failure to attract a new generation of newspaper readers, Surowiecki argues from the consumer perspective: The real problem for newspapers, in other words, isn’t the Internet; it’s us. We want access to everything, we want it now, and we […]
Seth Godin wonders if we’ll miss newspapers. For a growing proportion of the population, it’s already a moot point.
[…] the changes they’re about to undergo. A full 64% of broadcast executives believe journalism is headed in the wrong direction. Newspapers are farther along experimenting with pay walls and other revenue sources; broadcast is barely starting to think about these […]
The Guardian is doing what every news organization — every publishing organization — should do. Are you listening?
[…] time in the darkroom (yes, prints, chemicals, red light, and all). And only a few years before, I’d been delivering newspapers on my 10-speed. The advances in information technology since those days have been amazing — but not as amazing […]
Perhaps “print” isn’t dying, but mass media is. If that’s the case, is it a mistake to look to newspapers and their ilk for lessons?
[…] probably never generate the sums – or at least the profits – that advertising generated in traditional platforms like printed newspapers. To survive financially. . . news sites not only need to make their advertising smarter, but they also need […]
The Christian Science Monitor drops daily print. The big news may be that it still exists at all.
[…] the owner of his eponymous publishing company, had an odd rationale for the purchase of Editor & Publisher: I published newspapers when I first got into this business and have been reading Editor & Publisher on and off for more […]
[…] it?” Growing up in Scotland in the 1980s, frequent rainy Sundays were spent with the family reading all the Sunday newspapers. There were so many more newspaper publishers then. I learned quickly that different newspapers reported differently. A valuable life […]
[…] Assault on Paper, Nicholson Baker ranted about the inadequacies of microfiche and microfilm as surrogates for original copies of print newspapers. At the time, much was made of his investigation into newspaper preservation and archiving practices. A starred notice in […]
Image by Enrico Fuente via Flickr In the midst of a national debate over the future of newspapers, the Wall Street Journal just announced that it will be introducing a “sophisticated” micropayment system for its content sometime in 2009. They […]