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Newspapers: Industry in Turmoil

Posted on Friday, Apr 6th

Alan Murray writes in the Wall Street Journal: “Last weekend’s “Billionaires Bid for Tribune” headlines were enough to warm the hearts of us Dickensian scribes who still seek to make a living from impressions on wood pulp. Savvy Chicagoan Sam Zell sold much of his U.S. real-estate empire at the top of the market; could

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Newspapers Losing Verticals to Online

Posted on Wednesday, Mar 14th

Big chunks of the revenues of newspapers traditionally came from the verticals (Jobs, Classifieds, Personals, Real Estate, Cars, Travel, Events, Reviews). With the popularity of the online services ascending, and with huge investments made in each of those categories, the newspaper industry has been suffering, as ad dollars systematically flow out of print, and onto

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Newspapers, Roll Up!

Posted on Friday, Mar 2nd

There has been a lot of coverage on the dwindling fortunes of old media, especially the newspaper industry. Some of mine are Media Shuffles and Newspapers, Wake Up!. But. I am one of those people who believe that quality content will still need business models supporting it, and new media’s heavy reliance on FREE user-generated

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Newspapers, Wake Up!

Posted on Monday, Aug 21st

Actually, Washington Post just did. Jeff Burkett writes: washingtonpost.com BlogRoll Program Launched. Jeff’s instincts are right. There are bloggers with high quality content who would be willing to share ad revenues with the Post in exchange for serious traffic. Steve Rubel applauds the effort, and offers some suggestions on how to go beyond a wimpy

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