Putting a value on classic content
By Robert Cottrell.
Why is old content valued at zero, written off, never to be seen again?
Read moreBy Robert Cottrell.
Why is old content valued at zero, written off, never to be seen again?
Read moreBy Peter Kafka.
The Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a newspaper for the iPad era, is shutting down after less than two years.
Read moreBy Alan D. Mutter
Not so very long ago, the newspaper business was a snap: Build the largest possible audience, sell the most possible ads, charge the highest possible rates, print the fattest possible papers and pump out the biggest possible profits.
Read moreBy Mathew Ingram.
The fact that print is declining as a medium for journalism, and that newspapers are going to have to deal with that in a variety of ways, was brought home with a thud recently when Advance Publications and Postmedia announced they would no longer print some of their papers on certain days, in order to save money.
Read moreBy Dave Copeland.
It’s a bit of a role reversal at the college newspaper where I am the faculty adviser: I, playing the role of old ink-stained curmudgeon, keep insisting the students need to think about improving their website and developing multimedia reporting skills, while they insist they love putting out a dead-tree product each week.
Read moreBy Jordan Kurzweil.
It’s been said before, but it needs saying again (and again and again): PRINT IS DEAD. Across the publishing industry, year-over-year declines in revenue, subscriptions and circulation, are well documented.
Read moreBy Derek Thompson.
Call it creative if you want, but this is what economic destruction looks like. Print newspaper ads have fallen by two-thirds from $60 billion in the late-1990s to $20 billion in 2011.
Read moreBy by Frédéric Filloux.
Advertising still dominates the newspaper revenue model. Depending upon the particular country, it is not uncommon to see print dailies getting 70% to 80% of their revenue from advertising.
Read moreThe number of jobs eliminated in the newspaper industry rose by nearly 30% in 2011 from the prior year, according to the blog that has been tracking the human toll on the industry for the last five years.
Read moreTHE Irish Daily Star‘s response to the bail-out was a classic. It would be well worth framing a copy for your great-grandchildren. After all, they’ll still be paying for the mess “we” got them into.
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