Nine Questions: Savior Bezos, Chronicle Debacle, Patch Undone, the Long Beach Lunge & More

• Ken Doctor

• 9 Questions - Ads & Commerce - Asia and Australia - Best Practices - Dailies - Europe - Freedom Comm. - More Ken Doctor Posts - New York Times - News Corp/Wall Street Journal - News Tech - Orange County Register - The Digital Dozen - The New News - Washington Post

• August 19, 2013

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Is reader revenue one of the answers to the next stage of hyperlocal? The halving of Patch ("The newsonomics of Patch's unraveling", today at the Nieman Journalism Lab) is just another curve on the long road to marry local news and digital. Like Backfence and many newspaper forays, it has found ...

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The newsonomics of 2013’s second half, from ad depression to day dropping to real estate as destiny

• Ken Doctor

• Ads & Commerce - Alden Global/ MNG Enterprises/ DFM - Best Practices - Bloomberg - Dailies - Freedom Comm. - GAFA - Gannett - Google - Hearst - Magazines - Marketplace - Meredith - Mobile, Smartphone & Tablet - New York Times - News Corp/Wall Street Journal - Newsonomics of.... - Orange County Register - Paywalls and Digital Circulation - The Digital Dozen - The New News - Tronc/Tribune Pub. - TV / Video - UK

• July 19, 2013

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The newest News Corp sets sail. Cast adrift — but with a handy $2.6 billion in cash and no debt, making its peers oh-so-envi0us — the world’s largest newspaper company is in the midst of furious change. At the flagship Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal, it’s tough to find anyone in management ...

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