New Orleans’ Forced March to Digital

The New Orleans move is not a shocking one. By 2020, we'll be used to a few days a week of print, or maybe just "the Sunday paper," and wonder why we chopped down whole forests; didn't we always have these tablets? Newsprint is going the way of the steam engine, to be visited in theme parks. ...

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The Newsonomics of News U

At first glance, the question of whether professors and journalists are in the same business seems almost absurd, doesn’t it? We know what a college is, and we know what a newspaper is. One’s got ivy-covered walls, demands on-site instruction, costs tens of thousands of dollars a year, and ...

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Berkshire Hathaway Media Group: Financial Engineering Makes the Deal

It's the early movements of the ball that make this deal more a feat of financial engineering than a newspaper deal: Lend Media General $400 million, and extend a $45 line of credit, at 10.5% interest. That allows Media General to escape shorter-term financial pressures, and gives BH a good ...

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The newsonomics of hyperlocal’s next round: Patch, Digital First, and more

“Everyone wants us to fast-forward to the end of the movie,” Webster notes. He has a sensible point. Given how each Patch rumor — two sites consolidated here, freelance budgets cut back there — is treated as forensic evidence, Webster is in relatively hardy form. He admits that Patch, with its ...

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