The Newsonomics of Patch’s Unraveling

• Ken Doctor

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• August 19, 2013

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Overall, Patches have proven out a truism: More news coverage is better than less news coverage. Patch has added content to the mix that its competitive dailies missed. Now many of those will be gone, along with all the uncountable coverage losses driven by the loss of those 17,000 largely ...

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The New HuffPo-AOL Combo: The Free, Anti-Murdoch Alternative?

• Ken Doctor

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• February 7, 2011

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Ah, but what kind of new face will AOL/HuffPost's be? It could be, simply, the anti-Murdoch. Sure, The Daily is "centrist," whatever that means in the world of 2011, but the right-leaning proclivities of Murdoch Media are clear. MSNBC has tiptoed into position, leaning forward gingerly, but ...

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