The Newsonomics of Content Arbitrage

Is there a danger in content arbitrage? It’s value-neutral; it’s all in how you do it. Let’s remember that journalism is essentially a manufacturing process, with as much or as little value added as we want.

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Rocky Shutdown, by the Numbers

So the Rocky's final daily circ will come in at 210,000, more or less. That would make it the biggest paper shutdown since the columnist-rich Chicago Daily News, which folded in 1978 with a circulation of about 327,000. The last big shutdown metro that came to my mind was the Dallas Times ...

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Chronicle Crackdown Prompts Question: Where’s the Bay Area Online Super Startup?

Could the Chronicle indeed go away? Well, don't expect anyone to buy it. The newspaper market is, to use the kind word, illiquid. Frozen solid by two minor problems: 1) the credit meltdown, which will someday ease; 2) no one knows how to hell to value a newspaper company because no one has ...

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