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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So who's the ad competition? Maybe we should ask, who isn't? ...The question, here, is one of sustainability. Certainly, there's the question whether Patch can sustain itself, as its parent AOL struggles to find a new identity and growing business model. Then, there's the question of the ...
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The small town press, online and off, looks to have a far different trajectory than the metros. Re-creating the Roxy, in news, may be as good a guideline as any to chart the future.
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What is Christine Varney taking from her newspaper industry talks? Obama's new anti-trust chief has drawn a lot of attention for her interest in Google's books deal, and beyond that, to Google's great search dominance. Varney has also been meeting with news industry people, management and ...
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The two sites still appear fairly close in most metrics, with the major disagreement coming on the basis of what the Times considers it stronger "local" penetration. The impact on advertisers is, of course, another story again, as the dirty, little secret of many "local" news websites -- for ...
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8) Will the Post-Intelligencer Flip the Switch in Seattle? You know, go online-only. (Is online the onliest medium?) With Hearst's Ken Riddick and the PI's Michelle Nicolosi working through the what-ifs, we may have a new, great test to watch. We’d be able to compare the online PI to the ...
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