The Newsonomics of the new news cost pyramid

Still, those numbers are bound to chill many a journalist. You think posting reader metrics in newsrooms is still a point of contention — wait ’til story cost accounting becomes mainstream. And it will. It’s just simple manufacturing, and like it or not, that’s what the news business has long ...

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What the Christian Science Monitor Can Teach the Mormon Deseret News: The Old Church of News & Stated Religion

Somehow, the Monitor has managed for more than a century to straddle its religious and journalistic instincts, and its readers have benefited. Can the new Deseret News do the same? Can it get beyond its own talking points -- and talk journalism?

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Of Mormons, Moguls and Murdoch: Focus on the Innovation, not the Innovators

We can't though dismiss what the Mormon Church, Rupert Murdoch and ad moguls are up to. We have to learn from it and help it power a journalism that matters.

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The Newsonomics of Less is More, More or Less

One headline: “Salt Lake City paper axes 43% of its staff”. Another: “Deseret News a model of growth and innovation for the entire industry”. One’s a fact; the other is aspirational.

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