How newspapers can matter again
Buy Monday's Washington Post. And Tuesday's. And Wednesday's. Or go to The Post's Top Secret America. Now imagine if newspapers everywhere did this all the time.
Read MoreNewspapers fall out of orbit
Late last year William Dean Singleton, the CEO of MediaNews, announced he had identified the problem behind years of steep decline in the...
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Mr. Murdoch saves the news
Dear Mr. Murdoch: We’re so fortunate that we can entrust you with the future of the news business in the U.S. Such a shrewd business...
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Travel to another dimension to serve man
Respectively submitted for your persusal: GM tanks. A plane falls out of the sky. The American president reaches out to the Muslim world....
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Doh. I just laid off my business model
Each day brings another story that publishers are lurching to the business model that will save newspapers: charging for online content....
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Clemens, Kindle and Congress: History rhymes
History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme, observed Samuel Clemens. I was reminded of Clemens’ vision and failures amid this...
Read MoreMy plan for the Seattle PI (Part I)
On Friday, the Hearst Corporation announced that it was putting the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the older of Seattle’s two daily...
Read MoreWhen A Newspaper Becomes Part of the Story
The arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges (including a claim that he tried to profit from the selection of a...
Read MoreU.S. newspapers down $2 billion last quarter
The 18.1 percent decline spanned all categories of revenue, including a 30.9 percent decline in classifieds and a 3 percent drop in online...
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A newspaper whines about Google. I hear crickets.
Brian spotted an editorial in the Seattle Times published yesterday (Nov. 20, 2008), noting the dominance of Google in online advertising...
Read MoreThe Flickering Wick: CS Monitor drops print
Owned by a church but proudly agnostic in its reporting, The Christian Science Monitor will still have a web site and a weekend print...
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Magazine about newspapers launches its very first blogs. Gosh.
The magazine Editor & Publisher has long been the must-read trade rag for anyone in the U.S. newspaper business. Which is another way...
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What went wrong keeps going wrong for newspapers
Alan Mutter, an astute analyst who formerly served as editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, now puts the combined value of ten major news...
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The lost summer of newspapers
Reporter: If you could’ve found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would’ve explained everything. Other reporter: No, I...
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Jon Stewart and trust, for those who might have missed it
Years after the rest of of us knew it, New York Times literary critic Michiko Kakutani coronates Jon Stewart as “a genuine cultural...
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