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arnie Grossblatt

The Newspaper of the Future - 0 views

  • It is now clear that it is as disruptive to today's newspapers as Gutenberg's invention of movable type was to the town criers, the journalists of the 15th century.
  • The Internet wrecks the old newspaper business model in two ways. It moves information with zero variable cost, which means it has no barriers to growth, unlike a newspaper, which has to pay for paper, ink and transportation in direct proportion to the number of copies produced.
  • And the Internet's entry costs are low.
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  • These cost advantages make it feasible to make a business out of highly specialized information, a trend that was under way well before the Internet.
  • specialized media had been enjoying more growth than general media.
  • A metropolitan newspaper became a mosaic of narrowly targeted content items. Few read the entire paper, but many read the parts that appealed to their specialized interests
  • Sending everything to everybody was a response to the Industrial Revolution, which rewarded economies of scale
  • Newspapers "keep offering an all-you-can-eat buffet of content, and keep diminishing the quality of that content because their budgets are continually thinner," he said. "This is an absurd choice because the audience least interested in news has already abandoned the newspaper."
  • The newspapers that survive will probably do so with some kind of hybrid content: analysis, interpretation and investigative reporting in a print product that appears less than daily, combined with constant updating and reader interaction on the Web.
  • But the time for launching this strategy is growing short if it has not already passed. The most powerful feature of the Internet is that it encourages low-cost innovation, and anyone can play
  • Clayton Christensen has noted, the very qualities that made companies succeed can be disabling when applied to disruptive innovation. Successful disruption requires risk taking and fresh thinking.
  • One of the rules of thumb for coping with substitute technology is to narrow your focus to the area that is the least vulnerable to substitution.
  • What service supplied by newspapers is the least vulnerable?
  • I still believe that a newspaper's most important product, the product least vulnerable to substitution, is community influence
  • The raw material for this processing is evidence-based journalism, something that bloggers are not good at originating.
  • Newspapers might have a chance if they can meet that need by holding on to the kind of content that gives them their natural community influence. To keep the resources for doing that, they will have to jettison the frivolous items in the content buffet.
  • But it won't be a worthwhile possibility unless the news-paper endgame concentrates on retaining newspapers' core of trust and responsibility
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    Argues that newspapers will need to get smaller and more focused on establishing trust-based influence. Interesting.
arnie Grossblatt

Japan's Papers, Doomed but Going Strong - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    Article on the strength of newspapers in Japan and yet the certainty of their decline. Interesting difference between Japan's newspapers and US newspapers - Japanese newspapers don't put all their content on the Web for free.
Paul Riccardi

When A Newspaper Stops Publishing In Print, What Happens To The Print Advertising Dolla... - 0 views

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    What does happen to advertising revenue when a newspaper stops printing and goes online? With strong presences already online, how can the newspapers compete in an online world?
Derik Dupont

Survey: Newspaper Web Sites Still Top Source for Local Info But Competition is Closing In - 0 views

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    Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.
Derik Dupont

It's Official: 2009 Was Worst Year for the Newspaper Business in Decades - Media Decode... - 0 views

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    The Newspaper Association of America says its complied revenue figures for 2009 make it official that it was the worst year for newspaper advertising in decades.
Amanda Litvinov

When No News Is Bad News - The Atlantic (January 21, 2009) - 0 views

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    The Atlantic summed up this article better than I could: "A former managing editor of The Chicago Tribune probes the collapse of the newspaper industry and tries, mostly in vain, to find hope for the future of journalism." If you care about newspapers, grab a box of tissues before reading.
Derik Dupont

readapaper.com | news, views and other information on the newspaper industry - 0 views

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    Readapaper.com covers the newspaper industry. The site offers news, views and other information about newspaper issues.
Derik Dupont

New Report on Newspapers: Just Hang On For Another Year! - 0 views

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    Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.
Derik Dupont

The State of Newspapers? Think of Sand Falling in an Hourglass, Pew Report Says - 0 views

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    Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.
Derik Dupont

More Upbeat News: Moody's Removes Negative Outlook on Newspapers - 1 views

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    Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.
Derik Dupont

Media Cache - For U.S. Newspaper Industry, an Example in Germany? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Seventy percent of Germans read newspapers, and while newspaper revenue has plunged in the United States, it has held steady in there.
Derik Dupont

New Study Points to Healthy Newspaper Readership - 0 views

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    Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.
Derik Dupont

E.W. Scripps' Contreras to FTC: Help Newspapers Protect Online Content - 0 views

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    Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.
Ellen Levy

Newspaper Industry Is Running Out of Time to Adapt to Digital Future - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    More disheartening news about newspapers.
Derik Dupont

3 in 5 Web Users Read Online Newspapers - 0 views

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    3 in 5 Web Users Read Online Newspapers - Publisher: MarketingCharts
Derik Dupont

NAA Releases New Case Studies on Free Newspaper Classifieds Programs - DigitalEdge - 0 views

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    newspaper digital media blog
arnie Grossblatt

Outsourcing local journalism - 0 views

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    Maureen Dowd NYT Op-Ed piece on the outsourcing of local newspaper journalism to India. As if newspaper employees needed any more bad news.
Melissa Dahne

FeedJournal: Kill a tree and print your RSS feeds like a newspaper - Download Squad - 0 views

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    Ever wish you could print out your RSS feeds and read them like a newspaper? FeedJournal is a new service that lets you convert RSS feeds into printable PDF files.
Derik Dupont

'Editor & Publisher' to Cease Publication After 125 Years - 2 views

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    Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.
Derik Dupont

Hearst Reveals More About E-Reader Device/Service 'Skiff' - 0 views

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    Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.
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