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In fact, lower-cost entrants -- AOL, Yahoo/Associated Content, Demand +++ -- aren't just pests; they're changing the economics of producing content. That's not a small issue. It may well lead the next wave of disruption.
Are there any positive growth numbers to report? Which categories may be turning positive — maybe national or retail display ads — as the sagging economy continues to plague the traditional classified strengths of auto, recruitment, and real estate?
Thinking about the recent terminations at the Washington Post and CNN, though, I wonder if the press priesthood is still another cultural institution in the process of being swept away, encumbered as much as it has by habit as by principle.
The small town press, online and off, looks to have a far different trajectory than the metros. Re-creating the Roxy, in news, may be as good a guideline as any to chart the future.
Type "San Ramon shooting" into Google, and on both web and news search, Patch comes up first. In addition, Patch's story elicited nine comments by late Thursday evening; Contra Costa's none.
A small sample, but therein may lay this emerging ...
We can look at each of the major revolutions in digital news and commerce, and see how news companies responded.
Search. Late.
Paid search. Way too late.
Video. Late.
Social. Too late.
Mobile. Largely too late.
News companies have used old ...
One big lesson here for everyone to get their heads around. This is commercial crowdsourcing. Why outsource the collection, organization and checking of “directory data,” as numerous Yellow Pages companies have done over time, when you can have ...
Are we beginning to see the Last Man Standing strategy play out in the U.S.'s biggest cities? The New York Times is planning on building out 10-15 regional editions, on the model of its Chicago (partnered with the Chicago News Cooperative) and ...
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