With Switch Flipped, PI Tests the Regional Aggregation Model

Those numbers: say 12 vs 210, though, don't tell us about the nature of the coming battle. The battle will be about regional aggregation, as both Seattle "newspaper" sites try some new approaches.We're emerging (again, in some places) from the cloistered model of newspaper website publishing. ...

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Online-Only PI: 22…..and the Rest, Skidoo

Let's figure there are 44,000 journalists left in US newsrooms, an up-to-date tally hard to keep up with. So, if the industry magically flipped that switch tomorrow, we've got an estimate of how many online-only published could pay: 6600 journalists, and that's at the optimistic 15% number. Of ...

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Paid Content: You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard

If you've actually looked at your cable bill lately, you know it's undecipherable. Cablevision -- owner of Newsday -- could peg any amount it wanted to Newsday value, call it an information access charge or whatever, and attribute the money to ..... Newsday. Sound familiar, maybe a bit like, ...

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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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