Nine Questions on Patch’s New Push: National Hyperlocal?, SEO Sauces, and the Case of the Besieged Florist

• Ken Doctor

• Ads & Commerce - Dailies - Gannett - Mobile, Smartphone & Tablet - More Ken Doctor Posts - New York Times - News Tech - The New News

• August 16, 2010

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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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Nine Questions: Flipping the PI, NY’s 4 Dailies, Re-Kindling Women Readers, Talking USAToday, Journalistic Deviance and More!

• Ken Doctor

• Dailies - GAFA - Google - New York Times - News Corp/Wall Street Journal - The New News

• February 17, 2009

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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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