April 28, 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.
Wait a minute. What's the difference between an "online-only" product, with two or three weekly editions and three-day-a-week "daily" newspapers with stronger online presence? That distinction confused many of us, and it may well confuse those charged with making the transitional moves. No one ...
Read MoreThe biggest moving piece here though is habit. It's elusive. Newspapers' great success and great profits grew out of their dailiness, as addictive as cigarettes, without the nicotine. Readers got used to picking one up daily and advertisers got used to using their dailiness to market. As the ...
Read MoreOut of many memorable quotes from my Knight Ridder days, one keeps bouncing back to me. It came of the company’s mess in Detroit. Knight Ridder had long run the Detroit Free Press, one of the country’s liveliest, most readable papers. But it fell afoul of Detroit’s tough ...
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