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The socialization of America continues… Or is that the Obama-ization? Newspaper publishers from across the country meet to discuss how to rescue their failing industry and arrive at the conclusion that the best way is to have successful companies like Google share their ad revenue. Here is an excerpt from the result of the meeting, the [...] The question one more time: will people pay for online news? In this specific instance, will people pay $4.99 a month for an online newspaper put out by orphaned staff members of the Rocky Mountain News? It is a question the answer for which will interest a lot of people. Many metro areas are going from [...] The Washington Post, taking another step toward trimming the size of its newspaper, is folding its stand-alone Business section into the A section six days a week and drastically reducing the publication of stock tables. Women and minorities most affected. They hire idiots. David Brooks, NY Times: Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was. His words are responsible; his character is inspiring. But his actions betray a transformational liberalism that should put every centrist on [...] Smell the meta… But some media executives are growing concerned that the increasingly popular curators of the Web that are taking large pieces of the original work — a practice sometimes called scraping — are shaving away potential readers and profiting from the content. With the Web’s advertising engine stalling just as newspapers are under pressure, some [...] Pops from Seattle reports on the immanent demise of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, one of the two remaining major dailies in that market. (Add it to the news about the Philadelphia Inquirer, the LA Times and, today, the San Francisco Chronicle.) [Update: Add the Rocky Mountain News.] He linked to an article that brought up the fact that [...] As we read endless stories about the death of the newspaper business, peruse this. It was pretty obvious from the first half of last year that political journalism had reached a new low. In the second half we realized that business reporting had followed the same path. Over the past decade, business news has become ever more [...] |
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