A decade ago I refereed a debate about the merits of copy editors on the 6th floor of a metro newspaper editing copy created by writers on the 8th floor of the same metro. Granted, they were in different departments, and didn’t have the same background as their same-floor copy editors. But this big step […]
In the Dark Ages – about two years ago – newspaper companies with a healthy stable of smaller to medium size properties felt like they had the ultimate insurance policy. Perceived remoteness. “It’ll be years before Google, Yahoo and the rest discover us,” was the line of thought, as they watched the metros they owned […]
My dad’s ’61 Ford – big, hulking, white with four doors, plenty of chrome and a blue cloth interior – was backed up, rear-end to the one-car garage, as night fell, ready for a running start before dawn the next day. It was the one day of the year that the car was backed into […]
I punched in the number of my Texas publisher/friend and started talking before he could reply to my ring. He interrupted my jabbering with words I have never heard before. “John, I’m at the slaughterhouse and having trouble getting this buffalo inside. It’s not going well. Got to call you back.” Was Dan speaking in […]
Well, me. And, most likely, you. “We’re like a battleship; it takes a long time to change direction,” a senior newspaper exec told me decades ago, trying to calm my impatience with the pace of a large project. “But when we change course, we’ve got awesome firepower.” Well, the firepower is greatly diminished, and the […]
Everyone knows that media sites – particularly newspapers – are struggling mightily to find the right Internet business model, one that will sustain them as print continues to decline and digital becomes more important and no longer viewed as an interesting appendage, as it has been by too many in the recent past. Anyone who […]
Digital, Newspapers, Radio, TelevisionSometimes the road to new habits and new technology is littered with temporary bridges and make-do paths, products with a very important but very short shelf-life, and products that fill a gap until a better idea comes along. Is Google Fast Flip one of these, or is it the start of something much bigger? In […]
Content, Digital, Newspapers
Like a modern-day Rip Van Winkle, my friend Dan last month walked back into the publisher’s office he once occupied at a medium-size Texas newspaper. He hasn’t been asleep in the Catskills the last four years. He’s been on his motorcycle cruising past the Tetons, hurtling across the desert. He was at his ranch home […]
Newspapers, publisher, vendorsThe media industry seeks a path to survival, even as the layoffs continue. The cost-cutting is far from over. There’s talk of a modest rebound for newspapers in 2010, but how do you define rebound? So how do the educational institutions that provide the talent and energy to help save the business succeed in this […]
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Because big city newspapers have history behind them, they also generally have real estate of high value. That’s particularly true for the papers that have been around a while. Many sit on valuable downtown property. Some have classic historic buildings. Some have modern-era concrete and glass boxes, many looking dingy because the pressure washer budget […]
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