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Tag Archives: newspapers
Start reading newspapers … before it’s too late
Yet more evidence that newspapers are an endangered medium: New Orleans is famous for marking death with a celebration, and this was no different. More than 300 current and former colleagues, family members and well-wishers gathered to raise a final … Continue reading
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Another Paper Cuts Back On Print – and Staff
An ongoing preoccupation among those of us who study the media industries is newspapers’ struggle to find a way to stay afloat financially in an online world. As has been noted here and other places, readers and advertisers are moving … Continue reading
Warren Buffett embraces newspapers … again
And now for today’s million-dollar question: What drives one of the world’s richest individuals and most respected investors to place a bet on the future of what some have argued is a dying medium? Correct answers will likely not be … Continue reading
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Newspapers: Making online pay
Anyone who has been paying attention to the news industries knows that newspapers have been struggling to find a way to generate enough revenue from their online operations to offset declines in print advertising and subscription revenue, and thus keep … Continue reading
Newspapers today and yesterday
An article in today’s New York Times looked at the relatively recent trend of mega-wealthy individuals buying newspapers — a state of affairs that should cause at least a mild case of déjà vu for anyone conversant in the history … Continue reading
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The cost of rudeness: What nasty comment sections might be doing to us
One of the innovations that newspapers have adopted as they have moved online is comments sections. These are also, of course, common features of blogs like this one. This form of interactivity offers some benefits – they allow readers to … Continue reading →