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Change Agent: CJR profile of Tribune’s Lee Abrams
In the September/October Columbia Journalism Review, there's a long piece on Tribune's Chief Innovation Officer, Lee Abrams. Although it makes the mistake of equating Abrams and Apple's Steve Jobs …
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A new verb: To Batavian
GateHouse Media is up to something potentially amazing. The newspaper company has launched a news operation in a town where the local (non-GateHouse) paper had largely ignored the web: Batavia, New …
The Glengarry Glen Ross revenue solution
On the subject of finding new revenue streams, Lucas Grindley has an interesting take that argues the old model of charging advertisers up-front for space has it backwards: Generating an audience …
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Most news, print included, is free
That old tired meme - If everyone wants to read their news online, why don't we charge for it? - is the Old Faithful of seemingly good ideas that aren't. You can practically set your watch by the …
Inflation-adjusted newspaper revenues approaching 1982 levels
According to The Newsosaur, Alan Mutter, the first-half 2008 newspaper revenue details, released by the Newspaper Association of America, represent the worst numbers in a dozen years. But that's …
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