by Tim Windsor on November 18, 2008
This is just about the most challenging and possibly true sentence I’ve read in weeks:
Two fat newspapers each week and a robust web platform will have more impact than five or six skinny papers and a site that’s not foremost in the newsroom’s mind.
Martin Langeveld, who blogs at News After Newspapers, makes the case that [...]
by Tim Windsor on October 29, 2008
Mark Andreessen – Netscape and Ning founder, Facebook board member and investor in live-video site Qik – interviewed on Portfolio.com, looks at the current newspaper revenue and circulation crisis and sees… opportunity:
If you were running the New York Times, what would you do?
Shut off the print edition right now. You’ve got to play offense. You’ve [...]
by Tim Windsor on October 29, 2008
As industry observers such as Alan Mutter and Mark Potts try to sort out the meaning of the latest newspaper circulation numbers, and what they mean in context of the past 10-15 years, I thought it would be instructive to look at the numbers from ABC for one market, my local market newspaper, The Baltimore [...]
by Tim Windsor on October 29, 2008
I’ve been remiss in posting this. Here’s Jeff Jarvis last week kicking off the New Business Models for News conference. This is part one of two. You’ll find the second part linked at the end of part one.
This conversation could not have come at a more critical time. Circ. is down. Revenue is down. Staffing [...]
by Tim Windsor on October 27, 2008
Thanks to the New Business Models for News summit organized by Jeff Jarvis at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, I have a spiral notebook full of ideas flagged for followup, which I plan to address on this blog.
This morning, a quick one, courtesy of data from Eric Stein of Google.
As we wrestle with the [...]
by Tim Windsor on October 24, 2008
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 taken over by about 125 industry thinkers and leaders yesterday. It was this:
“Do what you do best. Link to the rest”
Linking in this case [...]