The Newsonomics of Majority Reader Revenue

We’re about to move into a period in which reader revenue surpasses advertising revenue as the main support of many news(paper) companies. It’s yet another kind of profound crossover ("The Newsonomics of Crossover"), demonstrating again how quickly news business models are changing. With ...

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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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Michigan’s Spawns New Hybrid Age Of News(papers)

Wait a minute. What's the difference between an "online-only" product, with two or three weekly editions and three-day-a-week "daily" newspapers with stronger online presence? That distinction confused many of us, and it may well confuse those charged with making the transitional moves. No one ...

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