The Newsonomics of Momentum in the WSJ/NYT Battle

First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   What a difference a year makes in America’s national newspaper war. When Rupert Murdoch bought the Journal and its parent Dow Jones six years ago, he declared that war, aiming to blur the historic line between a business newspaper ...

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The Newsonomics of Where NewsRight Went Wrong

Renamed NewsRight, it was an industry consortium, and here a truism applies: It’s tougher for a consortium — as much aimed at defense than offense — to innovate and adjust quickly. Or, to put it in vaudevillian terms: Dying is easy — making decisions among 29 newspaper companies can be ...

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The Newsonomics of the News Corp Split

The split made sense even before Hackgate. Viacom, Belo, and Scripps all split off growing assets over the last several years to investors’ cheers. This sequestering of no-growth — what the newspaper business, charitably, has become — businesses has its logic. Media ain’t what it used to be. ...

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The New Hoovers: You Say Workflow, I Say Lifeflow

All good lessons for news publishers to think about and act. It's a simple calculus: what B2B and Trade publishers aim to do in getting into the workflow of their readers, consumer publishers should aim to do with their readers' lifeflow. Don't make me a click off to another site, or my ...

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The Newsonomics of New News Syndication

Some have said that in the digital world, news companies need to think of themselves both as creators and aggregators, doing what they do best and linking to the rest. Let’s amend that: creators, aggregators, and syndicators, doing what they do best, licensing with zest and linking to the rest.

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News Publishers: New Pay Models May Test Their Q Factor

It's one of many non-newspaper metrics that seem alien to newspaper publishers. In fact, though, some measure of likeability, trustworthiness or other relationship factors may soon prove to be crucial to their future prospects

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