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...
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Category: Newspaper
The Guardian Will Launch US Print Edition, Hires Skynet as Editor-in-Chief
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...
Continue readingNY Times Brings Their Print Edition Online with New Web App
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...
Continue readingJeff Bezos Pens Open Letter to Washington Post Staff
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...
Continue readingJeff Bezos Stole My April Fool’s Day Joke
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...
Continue readingNew News App Lets Readers Subcribe to Individual Writers
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...
Continue readingIrish Newspaper Collective Wants to Charge License Fees for Links
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...
Continue readingConnecting Real Paper to the Internet
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...
Continue readingA Golden Age of Digital Plagiarism Checking
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...
Continue readingUSA Today Seeks Digital Tomorrow
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...
Continue readingCould Miniature Kindle and iPad Tablets Save the Newspaper Industry? Probably Not
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...
Continue readingShould Newspapers Raise Their Cover Prices?
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...
Continue readingDigital Advertising and Preprint Advertising Shakeup Squeeze Print Newspapers Even Further
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...
Continue readingNewspapers Should Get to Know Their Customers…But Can They?
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,...
Continue readingAutomatic Aggregators Can Regurgitate Old News
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...
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