Comments on: Doh. I just laid off my business model

By: E quando despedirem todos os jornalistas? : Ponto Media

E quando despedirem todos os jornalistas? : Ponto Media — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:42:17 +0000

[...] LUÍS Santos chama a atenção para um pequeno post de Dale Peskin que vale a pena ler: Sometime soon, the publishers are going to figure out the next problem: they [...]

By: Alexandre Gamela

Alexandre Gamela — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:06:28 +0000

I wrote about the same issue (among others) in a post last year – http://olago.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/how-to-keep… – where i defend that news companies should hire the best because they will make it pay. Instead we see lay-offs and precarious working conditions for young journalists still trying to get the gist of the job. So everytime i read "Google killed our business" or other whining of the sort i just yell at the screen "you did it to yourselves you idiots". Either i'm right or i have to take my pills like the doctor ordered. Great post.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:01:37 +0000

A publisher struggles to convince people, even people over 40, to pay 50 cents for an entire newspaper. Why would anyone pay $1 for a single story? Now, take some scissors and cut out all of the staff-written stories from your local paper today, lay them across your desk, close your eyes and jab your finger down somewhere. Take the story you poked and go around the room asking everyone how much they would pay if there was no other way to read that story. That story about the noise ordinance? Doesn't affect me — won't pay. That story about state budget cuts? Heard it on the radio this morning — won't pay. That op-ed by the blowhard I hate? I'd pay for him to be fired, but that's about it. Some people will pay a little bit for some stuff, a demented few may even pay $1, but there are many things the staff spends its time on that no one ever would pay for by itself.