newsosaur.blogspot.com - 2/3/2009
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Contrary to some of the ill-informed articles you might have read lately, almost every newspaper company still needs to print newspapers if it wants to stay in business.
Although the idea of paperless newspapers ricochets around the blogs with some regularity, fans of the concept recklessly ...
valleywag.gawker.com - 2/6/2009
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Micropayments are the future of content! If I
had a nickel for every time I heard that...
one. Walter Isaacson , a former managing editor of Time , is the latest to pick up this tired banner. In Time's latest cover story — which you can read ...
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How Not to Save Newspapers
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Why newspapers can’t stop the presses
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... However, another Silicon Valley blogger, this one a veteran print journalist, points out in his blog “Reflections of a Newsosaur” that print newspapers get 90% of their revenue by selling print ads. Even if they put advertisements of some kind in their on-line versions, they would still be killing off their biggest cash cow. ...
Newsosaur’s roar
BuzzMachine —
Because of travel, I’m late in linking to Alan Mutter’s two-parter responding to my speculation about the post-press LA Times. Mutter is by far the best, smartest, and most-informed analyst of the financial state of papers and so I disagree with him at my mortal peril. Indeed, I’m delighted that he’s bringing out real numbers and considerations and hope we get down to such brass tacks in the New Business Models for News project upcoming. My response to Alan: I think that online up-sells in classified will disappear with classifieds and so ...
Second looks: "Newsasaur," PDA D&D, Missing Manual
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... Alan D. Mutter—the ex-journalist blogger whose editorial "Why newspapers can’t stop the presses" I covered ...
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