From NewspaperDeathWatch: Nevertheless, the Newspaper Project launched with a website and ads that appeared in 300 newspapers on Monday. Here’s a PDF, if you’re interested. So far, the website appears to be mainly a linklog of material that’s appeared elsewhere, but the slate of authors is impressive. “Future ads will highlight the civic value of [...]
Accelerate Your Online Models
A must read post from Scripps’ very own Katie Allison Granju on how print advertising is just going away. I can tell you from personal experience that this is true when it comes to advertising revenue sustaining newspapers. She talks about what I wrote about earlier this week. However, I was surprised by the strongly [...]
Paper Cuts
Want to see an interactive map tracking newspaper layoffs around the country? Sure you do.
Rex Hammock Breaks It Down
When Rex gets his Jefferson on, just sit back and listen. Maybe if he were alive today, Mr. Jefferson would be baffled by the notion of “saving” newspapers. When not being a newspaper-defender or a long list of other wonderful and not-so-wonderful things, he was a lover of (and inventor of) technology. His passion for [...]
The Digital Gap and Weekly Newspapers
So you’re a weekly newspaper publisher and you produce a quality newspaper product with original local news and a vibrant editorial page. Your ongoing efforts and commitment have allowed you to control your local news market. Readers respect you and look to you for the facts – they want you to act as a watchdog [...]
Buried In A Sea Of E-mails
By John Carney Am I the only small-town newspaper person swamped with useless e-mail? I imagine I’m not. The Shelbyville Times-Gazette is a daily (Sunday-Friday) newspaper serving a rural community in southern Middle Tennessee. We’re pretty locally-oriented, and most of what we run that isn’t directly connected to Bedford County comes either from AP or [...]
Leave Right Now!!!
Go read Jack Lail’s post on sending visitors away from your site. Heh…like how I did that?
Community Blogs May be the Newspapers of the Future
By Kathy Tyson Nashville. The appeal of bright lights, big city brought my family here more than five years ago, but instead of moving into the metro area we opted for a neighboring town. Homes were more affordable and we could get an acre or two to stretch our legs, get a dog, and plant [...]
The News Cycle Has Changed
Lindsey works in art design in the deadwood business. She has written one of the best posts I’ve seen on her love of being in the newspaper business and her fears as she watches the ongoing bad news of her chosen profession. Things are bad. Real, real bad. And they’re not going to get better. [...]
Tech ‘Superman’ Loses His Suit To Newspaper
This is the tech equivalent of Clark Kent getting canned at The Daily Planet. Morten Lund, an entrepreneur from Copenhagen, Denmark, might just be the real Rock-’n Roll entrepreneur. Yesterday he was declared personally bankrupt by the Copenhagen Maritime and Commercial Court after losing 10M Krona in an investment into a Danish newspaper, Nyhedsavisen, which [...]