May 18, 2024
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So, if it is newspapers' strategy to transition paying readers to digital devices, charging them along the way, some part of that $34 billion will move to tablets, e-readers, iPads, Streaks and whatever the next generation of devices are called. ...
It's a tough dance, and one that conservatives love to watch. I'm struck by how different the dance is in the UK, another English-speaking country with a fairly decent history of democracy and free press. There, the Guardian -- which is now ...
What we're talking about here is innovation; not invention of internships, but the rapid usage of new kind of internship system applied at some scale. The scale immediately makes Patch U, as the project is called, something to be noticed, and ...
Negotiation is helped greatly by competition. Ironically, Google, the first big web middleman to drive the newspaper industry nuts, may prove useful here as its Android-powered tablets (Samsung, Dell and more) take on the iPad. Can Google strike ...
AOL, business model, Dave Hunke, digital revenue, Patch, print, SeattlePI.com, USA Today, Warren Webster
Isn't Apple wanting 30% of fees for apps a little like [Sony CEO] "Howard Stringer demanding 30% of the revenue produced by TV shows running on Sony TV sets"? That's how a friend put it to me when we talked today. It's a confusing world, no ...
Somehow, the Monitor has managed for more than a century to straddle its religious and journalistic instincts, and its readers have benefited. Can the new Deseret News do the same? Can it get beyond its own talking points -- and talk journalism?
The Argo funding is one of the first things that tells us about the business of this effort. Like Silicon Valley startups, the effort is about building a product that seems to meet a clear audience need, building that audience — and then finding ...
Bay Citizen's Jonathan Weber explains the ins and outs of working as a New York Times bureau, nailing some of the difficulties of marrying old and new journalism as the Times reaches beyond its old comfort zone.
Substitute newspapers for broadcast, and the question becomes: do publishers have the stomach to stay in print newspapers for the longer term, or do they want to adopt radically different approaches to the future of their businesses....Going ...
