San Diego Union turns against its future
A long time ago someone said to me: "When the parent becomes threatened by the child, the stage is set for a Greek tragedy."If reports are to be believed, that's playing out right now in San Diego,...
View ArticleThe aging giant
Since it decided to redirect its efforts toward the Internet, one particular company's "stock price has fallen by half, the portion of its revenue derived online has stagnated at about 5% ... and its...
View ArticleLet's play 'Who's the Luddite now?'
For more than a decade there's been a deep division in newspaper journalism between the "onliners" and the .. well, let's face it, we all called them Luddites. Dinosaurs. People who just don't get...
View ArticleThe ownership crisis
Yet more evidence of the deepening ownership crisis at American newspapers: the Philadelphia Inquirer's owners are technically in default of their loan terms.This is one of those things that's likely...
View ArticleFeeling old
I just posted something on Alan Mutter's blog -- an item about planned redesigns at Tribune Company newspapers -- and realized afterward that hardly anybody currently employed at an American newspaper...
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It's just unevenly distributed
David Kurtz, who writes for Josh Marshall's great political blog Talking Points Memo, is at the International Press Institute congress in Belgrade and observes that the angst being felt by American...
View ArticleCesspool of misinformation?
The official Old Media party line, among the few remaining true luddites not yet laid off by their newspaper employers, is that New Media is a cesspool of misinformation while print is a rock of...
View ArticleRolling over in Walter Williams' grave
I had dinner Friday night with Dean Mills and several other folks from the University of Missouri J-School. Not one word was said about the death of print, the crushing debt loads taken on by big...
View ArticleHow to find newspaper circulation figures
A post from Howard Owens reminds me that a lot of people probably don't know how easy it is to get circulation information about U.S. newspapers. For papers that are members of the Audit Bureau of...
View ArticleWrite one of these memos about your own website
The net is all abuzz today about this angry memo from Bill Gates to a list of Microsoft bigwigs back in 2003. It's a classic: Gates tries to buy some Microsoft software, has a terrible user experience,...
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