Tagged: newspapers
The Salt Lake Tribune Officially Becomes 501(c)(3) Nonprofit
The “nonprofit” theory of how to save legacy media is about to get a real world test case.
Des Moines Register Breakdown
Carson King, Aaron Calvin and the Des Moines Register showing what not to do
Hey, wanna read something?
Anybody want to read a manuscript-in-progress? Wait! Don’t run away just yet!
Will the last person to leave the newsroom please turn out the lights?
Newsday erects a pay wall. 35 people subscribe. Newspaper editors collectively shudder. Total cost of Newsday’s failed experiment? A cool four million dollars.
do unto others
Reuters takes the opposite approach from the AP or NewsCorp. Good for them. Writes Chris Aheam:
newspapers can’t be successful online?
Why? Honestly, why can’t newspapers be successful with online revenue only? Other companies finance their operations online. Google is financed entirely (or almost entirely) through ad revenue. Why can’t the news survive in this...
a bad idea
Matt Yglesias points us to a very bad idea coming from the typically pretty savvy Richard Posner:
State of Print
Resting at the heart of State of Play (2009) is not so much the personal relationships of the characters – who are mostly forgettable save for Crowe’s Cal McAffrey – or the grand (and...
