Newspaper

Visionary Leader Injects Leadership, Vision Into Ailing News Publisher

22 December, 2015 // 6 Comments

It's been close to two and a half years since Jeff Bezos announced that he was buying the Washington Post, and much to the dismay of his detractors at the New York Times this venerable news org is [Read More ...]

The Guardian Will Launch US Print Edition, Hires Skynet as Editor-in-Chief

16 April, 2014 // 0 Comments

The UK newspaper The Guardian is launching a print edition in the US today, only they won't be assigning any staff to write or edit it. Rather than create a new publication, The Guardian is building [Read More ...]

NY Times Brings Their Print Edition Online with New Web App

5 December, 2013 // 0 Comments

The NYTimes has long been sending a version of their print edition to subscribers on ebook readers like the Nook and Kindle, and today they've announced that web subscribers can join the fun. They've [Read More ...]

Jeff Bezos Pens Open Letter to Washington Post Staff

5 August, 2013 // 14 Comments

I'm still stunned by the news today that Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and publishing's chosen foe, has bought The Washington Post Company. And while I am like many others in wondering what he plans [Read More ...]

Jeff Bezos Stole My April Fool’s Day Joke

5 August, 2013 // 5 Comments

For the past several years now I have been maintaining a list of possible 1 April jokes. I have never used them all, but I do like to think ideas up in advance and have them ready for the big day. At [Read More ...]

New News App Lets Readers Subcribe to Individual Writers

13 February, 2013 // 0 Comments

When The Magazine was announced last year it got a lot of attention for what (after the fact) was an obviously good idea; paring down a digital magazine to a minimal amount of content and then [Read More ...]

Irish Newspaper Collective Wants to Charge License Fees for Links

2 January, 2013 // 19 Comments

It's a fact of life that legacy industries are often killed off by newer industries spawned by new inventions, so the generally worsening situation of the newspaper industry should come as no [Read More ...]

Connecting Real Paper to the Internet

25 September, 2012 // 0 Comments

Here’s an interesting piece on paidContent talking about the possibility of embedding electronics in genuine paper in order to add the ability to play audio, send Facebook likes, and otherwise link [Read More ...]

A Golden Age of Digital Plagiarism Checking

25 September, 2012 // 1 Comment

PaidContent has an interesting piece on another plagiarism kerfuffle in the news lately, as a columnist from one newspaper used verbatim quotes from someone else without crediting them for it, and [Read More ...]

USA Today Seeks Digital Tomorrow

20 September, 2012 // 0 Comments

As newspapers are more and more imperiled by Internet e-news, veteran CEO/journalist Alan D. Mutter has a fairly long piece on the potential demise or sweeping change lying in store for USA Today, [Read More ...]

Could Miniature Kindle and iPad Tablets Save the Newspaper Industry? Probably Not

6 September, 2012 // 0 Comments

As we approach upcoming launch events for both Amazon and Apple, speculation is rife about what the things they’re launching could mean for the reading industry. For example, the Guardian ponders [Read More ...]

Should Newspapers Raise Their Cover Prices?

4 September, 2012 // 2 Comments

Should newspapers raise their prices? I’ve been doubtful in the past. There’s no monopoly on facts, after all. If the New York Times wants to hide its content behind a paywall, you can just read [Read More ...]

Digital Advertising and Preprint Advertising Shakeup Squeeze Print Newspapers Even Further

31 August, 2012 // 0 Comments

Not all perils to print media are necessarily entirely digital. Sometimes those perils can come in the form of something that adds to digital’s effect. Veteran journalist and Silicon Valley CEO [Read More ...]

Newspapers Should Get to Know Their Customers…But Can They?

29 August, 2012 // 1 Comment

Newspapers’ digital problem is a bit more pointed than the problem of e-books. Much as publishers gripe about retailers selling e-books cheaper than they want them to, they are, at least, still [Read More ...]

Automatic Aggregators Can Regurgitate Old News

21 August, 2012 // 3 Comments

News aggregators like Zite are very useful. I use Zite from time to time myself when I’m in need of stories to blog. But there’s a danger in this app that’s not always obvious. Today I ran [Read More ...]

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