The Power of Us

How newspapers can matter again

Posted by on Jul 20, 2010 in How To, Journalism | 2 comments

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.

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Newspapers fall out of orbit

Posted by on Feb 10, 2010 in Advertising, Business, Deals & Dealmakers, Journalism, Reports | 0 comments

Late last year William Dean Singleton, the CEO of MediaNews, announced he had identified the problem behind years of steep...

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Mr. Murdoch saves the news

Posted by on Nov 25, 2009 in Business Models, Deals & Dealmakers, Journalism, Leadership, Social Media | 0 comments

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...

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Travel to another dimension to serve man

Posted by on Jun 5, 2009 in Culture | 0 comments

Respectively submitted for your persusal: GM tanks. A plane falls out of the sky. The American president reaches out to the...

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Doh. I just laid off my business model

Posted by on May 11, 2009 in Business Models, Journalism, Leadership | 2 comments

Each day brings another story that publishers are lurching to the business model that will save newspapers: charging for...

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Clemens, Kindle and Congress: History rhymes

Posted by on May 8, 2009 in Business Models, Culture, Deals & Dealmakers, Journalism, Leadership, Social Media, Technology | 3 comments

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme, observed Samuel Clemens. I was reminded of Clemens’ vision and...

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My plan for the Seattle PI (Part I)

Posted by on Jan 12, 2009 in Business Models, Community, Deals & Dealmakers, How To, Journalism, Leadership, Social Media | 3 comments

On Friday, the Hearst Corporation announced that it was putting the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the older of Seattle’s...

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When A Newspaper Becomes Part of the Story

Posted by on Dec 10, 2008 in Business Models, Power & Policy, Social Media | 0 comments

The arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges (including a claim that he tried to profit from the...

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U.S. newspapers down $2 billion last quarter

Posted by on Dec 1, 2008 in Business, Social Media | 0 comments

The 18.1 percent decline spanned all categories of revenue, including a 30.9 percent decline in classifieds and a 3 percent...

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A newspaper whines about Google. I hear crickets.

Posted by on Nov 21, 2008 in Business, Social Media | 3 comments

Brian spotted an editorial in the Seattle Times published yesterday (Nov. 20, 2008), noting the dominance of Google in online...

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The Flickering Wick: CS Monitor drops print

Posted by on Oct 29, 2008 in Business, Journalism | 0 comments

Owned by a church but proudly agnostic in its reporting, The Christian Science Monitor will still have a web site and a...

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Magazine about newspapers launches its very first blogs. Gosh.

Posted by on Sep 4, 2008 in Innovation | 5 comments

The magazine Editor & Publisher has long been the must-read trade rag for anyone in the U.S. newspaper business. Which is...

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What went wrong keeps going wrong for newspapers

Posted by on Aug 22, 2008 in Brands, Journalism | 2 comments

Alan Mutter, an astute analyst who formerly served as editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, now puts the combined value of...

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The lost summer of newspapers

Posted by on Aug 19, 2008 in Journalism | 0 comments

Reporter: If you could’ve found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would’ve explained everything. Other...

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Jon Stewart and trust, for those who might have missed it

Posted by on Aug 18, 2008 in Culture, Journalism, People | 0 comments

Years after the rest of of us knew it, New York Times literary critic Michiko Kakutani coronates Jon Stewart as “a...

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