May 4, 2024
In five languages (English, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian) and two U.S. printing, “Newsonomics: Twelve Trends That Will Shape the News You Get” is the first Ken Doctor book. Sign up here for notice of the new Newsonomics Readers.
The Stranger, out of Seattle, offers up a longish, but winning "The Great West Coast Newspaper War," in part describing the mano a mano battle of Guardian editor Bruce Brugmann, now 74, and VVM impresario Mike Lacey, now 61, quoting one source calling the opponents "last two tyrant-osaurs."
Read MoreA lot of ideas come from looking at all the cool new tools that are constantly being developed, and sitting back and thinking, ‘hmm, how can I use that?’ Google Reader inspired me to ask some of our staffers to start creating "what I'm reading" headline lists that we surface on their blogs. ...
Read MoreThose 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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