In the days of 30 percent margins, 700,000 circulation Sunday papers and 500-staffer newsrooms, the copy desk chief walked into my office and said, “We have two people out on the sports desk the next two days; I don’t know how we can get the job done.” Everything is relative to the time you are […]
Content, Digital, Innovation, Newspapers, Social Media
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, vendors
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 […]
Content, Newspapers
Or is that a train loaded with unused newsprint rushing full speed ahead at us? Three promising signs indicate that possibly, maybe, perhaps the newspaper industry is finally starting to break free from the bottom, where it has been mired for many, many months. Those signs: 1. The New York Times reports that The Seattle Times, […]
Content, Digital, Newspapers
Bill Robinson – writer extraordinaire, the man who dubbed Richard Petty “The King,” the man who once rolled a flat tire into the office to save his job – died last month in Alabama. What does that have to do with this blog’s normal topic, digital news and trends? Nothing and everything. More on that […]
Content, NewspapersI’ve never been in a boat with a cracked hull, watching it fill with water, bailing with an old milk jug. And planning my next ’round the world cruise. But that’s what it feels like today in the world of newspapers. There’s a leak in the boat, the water line inside rises as the hull […]
Content, Digital, Newspapers
For 19 years, he anchored the CBS Evening News, giving us the daily signature: “And that’s the way it is…” But he gave us so much more. Certainly the premier journalist of his time, he not only recorded and reported the world-changing news of the day – the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing – but […]
Content, Newspapers, Television, University of TexasWhat’s your school of thought when it comes to publishing systems – newspapers, radio, TV, whatever – and speed to market? Make it perfect, dot every i, cross every t…spend a couple years. Or get a good one in quickly and grow it, as needs grow? Okay, you’re thinking this is not exciting, and why […]
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