While we're thinking Big Thoughts about what to do after the last press wheezes to its end, I thought I'd share this funny graf about newspapermen from James Lileks, newspaperman: You can’t avoid …
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Einstein proves advertising and content are not necessarily opposites
The current newspaper business revenue crisis has led to some old ideas being dusted off and presented as new (Paid content! Micropayments! Preservation of print circulation!), and who knows? Maybe …
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The “new newsroom” is being created one reporter at a time
(Cross-posted to Nieman Journalism Lab) What does the journalist of the future look like? PR whiz Steve Rubel says he looks a lot like Peter Abraham, who is not some vaporware demo from 2015, …
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Will paid content work? Two cautionary tales from 2004
Given the recent secret memos and TIME cover stories, the topic of "paid content" has once again grabbed the spotlight, offering at least a slim hope of revenue redemption to some newspaper people -- …
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Paying for foreign reporting requires creative financing
Whether the shuttering of foreign bureaus by metropolitan newspapers and some TV networks in recent years -- to refocus efforts stateside as budgets tightened -- was a good thing or bad is certainly …
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How to grow local revenue, despite the ad inventory glut
So, what to do about this over-abundance of advertising inventory in our local markets? Unlike some in this industry who are looking, again, at some form of paid content as the solution to the …
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