Alan Mutter was paying attention when The NAA tried to quietly dump its latest revenue numbers on the afternoon before Thanksgiving. And what he saw was grim, including continued falloff in all …
Saving newspapers from the scrap heap: a plan
So the American Press Institute has declared a national emergency, grabbed the newspaper industry by the lapels and summoned its leaders to a hotel ballroom the API campus in Reston Virginia. The …
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Finding the next business model for news
The theme of CUNY's "New Business Models for News" summit didn't emerge contextually throughout the day. It was staring everyone in the face from the multiple monitors spread throughout the newsroom …
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Newspapers: Unlock the vaults to readership and revenue
Go to a lot of online news sites and search the archive, and you'll soon hit a pay wall. If you want to dig into the history of a city, the richest repository of that information usually wants you to …
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Boom. Bust. Boom.
I displayed the little totem pictured to the left in my office for the past 7-8 years as a constant reminder to myself and anyone who came to visit of how things aren't always what they seem. Flush …
Gazing into NAA’s 2009 crystal ball and seeing very different things
As he is wont to do, Alan Mutter, The Newsosaur, just rained on what little parade the Newspaper Association of America has to offer right now: A projection of revenue falloff of "only" 5.5% for …
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