by David | Sep 14, 2010 | newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch
The Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers used to represent the sinewy, beating heart of American journalism. Then they got run into the ground, bought up by Tribune dorks who were more interested in playing out their boyhood “I wanna play right field for the...
by David | Mar 27, 2010 | Digital Migration, journalism, Newspaper Deathwatch
GM’s NUMMI plant in Fremont was the solution to their crisis.     So why did they ignore its lessons? I strongly urge you to listen to this great piece from This American Life about the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont. It’s about how the U.S. auto...
by David | Nov 12, 2009 | Digital Migration, infographic, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Print die-hards claimed that all that was needed to reverse the audience migration to the internet was to make newspapers more “lively” in appearance. Early verdict: looks pretty, but the advertising still isn’t there, and that sound you heard was...
by David | Aug 28, 2009 | Digital Migration, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
This week’s debate is not as acrimonious as in the past (although there are exceptions to that, of course), and in the wake of the biz models released by the Aspen conference, some people are taking building new revenue streams seriously. At least, they say...
by David | Aug 16, 2009 | Digital Migration, New Marketing, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
In which I get very “Meta” and write a blog post that aggregates other blog posts that were written about aggregation. I am also posting this over on the AIM Group blog, as part of what I think might become a regular feature, “This week in the paid...
