Newsonomics: Vulture Alden Circles Boston

Casual observers tell me it looks to them like Alden, DFM’s owner, is tiring of the business, as it cuts deeply in California and sees seasoned executives like Denver Post publisher Mac Tully and editor Greg Moore leave, fed up. Au contraire. On Wednesday, DFM more than doubled GateHouse’s ...

Read More

The Inconvenient Truth About Print, a Response to Clay Shirky

Follow Newsonomics @kdoctor First published at Nieman Journalism Lab   I have to say, I find it funny to be called an apologist for the legacy news industry, as Clay Shirky suggested in an overnight post. Ask Steve Forbes or Lex Fenwick what they think about that, given my columns of just ...

Read More