April 25, 2024
In five languages (English, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian) and two U.S. printing, “Newsonomics: Twelve Trends That Will Shape the News You Get” is the first Ken Doctor book. Sign up here for notice of the new Newsonomics Readers.
For those of us who get to watch, it would be fascinating. Will the online PI grow or shrink? How stable a flipped model does it offer? How does a link/blog model do against a traditional hosted content model? All eyes would be on Seattle, as ...
I guess it isn't surprising that publishers are focusing on the wrapper, not the content. But it's not the bun, it's the hot dog we should keep our eye on. The hot dog is the content, and the Internet does a great job of moving the content ...
So does the Merc's coverage cross a line? Well, it at least dances on it. In normal times, we wouldn't have paid that much attention. These, though, are not normal times. As newspaper standing wanes, its power to resist commercial pressures -- ...
Let's figure there are 44,000 journalists left in US newsrooms, an up-to-date tally hard to keep up with. So, if the industry magically flipped that switch tomorrow, we've got an estimate of how many online-only published could pay: 6600 ...
If you've actually looked at your cable bill lately, you know it's undecipherable. Cablevision -- owner of Newsday -- could peg any amount it wanted to Newsday value, call it an information access charge or whatever, and attribute the money to ...
Okay, at this late evening time, there's growing questions about what Cablevision COO Tom Rutledge meant when he apparently said: “We plan to end the distribution of free Web content. Our goal was and is to use our electronic network ...
So the Rocky's final daily circ will come in at 210,000, more or less. That would make it the biggest paper shutdown since the columnist-rich Chicago Daily News, which folded in 1978 with a circulation of about 327,000. The last big shutdown ...
Want to know how likely it is that Cablevision's new charge-for-Newsday-online will work? A few rational arguments to follow, but consider this number: The average unique visitor on Newsday.com spends four minutes, 25 seconds per month on the ...
Now they find themselves in a too-familiar fix. Not only have they allowed to Google to index and snippet their stories -- "fair use" has never been finally adjudicated in the course -- but they've grown dependent on Google traffic overall. ...
Could the Chronicle indeed go away? Well, don't expect anyone to buy it. The newspaper market is, to use the kind word, illiquid. Frozen solid by two minor problems: 1) the credit meltdown, which will someday ease; 2) no one knows how to hell to ...
