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• Miami Herald launches donation scheme

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 484
  Is this the latest model for newspaper sustainability? "If you value The Miami Heralds local news reporting and investigations, but prefer the convenience of the Internet, please consider a voluntary payment for the web news that matters to you," The Huffington Post reports that the Miami Herald is asking ...
  2 days ago

• Yikes

  
  Conjugate Visits — Authority: 120
  From the main page at latimes.com today. Their layoffs are showing. Okay .... NOW Im going dark.
  2 days ago

• Saving newspapers: A modest proposal

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  By Joel ThurtellI could make a fortune with this idea, except I got it from The New York Times.I’d have to kick something back to them, probably.For once, it might be worth it.It’s amazingly simple, really.If it catches on, it’s bound to reverse the downward spiral of American daily newspapers.Here’s how it ...
  1 week ago

• A newspaper vanishes

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  By Joel ThurtellI never saw a copy of the short-lived Detroit Daily PresI gather it was distributed in some parts of the Detroit area.Maybe because I was in Canada most of last summer, I was slow to learn about the proposed new daily print newspaper for Detroit.I think, though, that publicity about the Daily Press ...
  2 weeks ago

• Plenty of life in newspapers yet

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 484
  Northern Echo editor Peter Barron believes that there is plenty of life still left in newspapers. Hold the front page reports that Barron,taking part in a debate about the future of the regional press staged at London’s City University said that, We are obviously facing a digital future, but I still think ...
  2 weeks ago

• Job cuts on the way at the Washington Times

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 484
  Overnight news from the Washington Times which has announced in an email to staff that up to 40 per cent of jobs could be under threat at the paper. This according to Politico Jonathan Slevin, acting publisher and president of the Washington Times, outlined a new plan for the beleaguered newspaper and spoke of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Daily Beast staff ‘happy as clams,’ says Barry Diller

  
  Summit Notebook — Authority: 576
  The journalists and staff who work at The Daily Beast don’t look at life like you other sad-sack scribes out there who are watching your job market wash out to sea with the ebb tide. In fact, they are happy in a particularly mollusk-like way. “They’re as happy as clams,” said Barry Diller, chief executive of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Daily Beast staff ‘happy as clams,’ says Barry Diller

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 589
  The journalists and staff who work at The Daily Beast dont look at life like you other sad-sack scribes out there who are watching your job market wash out to sea with the ebb tide. In fact, they are happy in a particularly mollusk-like way. "Theyre as happy as clams," said Barry Diller, chief executive of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Of pizzas, pools and prosecutors: or, how the ‘Free’ Press (once again) muzzled itself

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  The Wall Street Journal’s revelation that my onetime employer, The Detroit [Self-Styled] Free Press, had invited advertisers to participate in the reporting and editing process came as no surprise to me.I worked at the Free Press 23 years if you count more than two years on strike in the ’90s. So many fine stories ...
  2 weeks ago

• Now here is a way to keep up newspaper circulations-enforced subscriptions

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 484
  One area of the world where newspapers are not under attack is apparently Japan The single biggest reason is Japan’s direct distribution system. Subscribers who attempt to cancel meet with repeated and agonised house visits from a familiar local employee of the newspaper company.reports the FT But maybe the most ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rupert Murdoch, the smartest man in newspapers?

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 589
  I wrote an analysis on Monday about the possibility that News Corp might take its news search results away from Google and list them on Microsoft’s Bing search engine instead. My conclusion: This one isn’t such a hot idea. Then I read John Gapper’s Financial Times item about how it *could* be a hot idea. To ...
  3 weeks ago

• Layoffs hit The Washington Post after BusinessWeek, AP

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 589
  Several media reporters wrote on Twitter on Thursday that this was one of the worst weeks in journalism, and it’s hard to argue with them. BusinessWeek is canning a third of its staff as Bloomberg gets ready to buy the magazine. The Associated Press is laying off 90 people as part of its effort to cut payroll costs ...
  3 weeks ago

• Salve-Thursdays Guardian Tech

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 484
  One of the casualties of the Guardian media groups cost cutting will be the stand alone Technology section on a Thursday. It ceases publication on the 17th December as Charles Arthur explains in todays edition it wont signal the end of the papers championing of the subject. The final issue will mark just over 26 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Newspapers should stop thinking as fixed products and start acting valuable, branded interfaces to on

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 484
  CJR carries an interesting interview with Rob Durst, a Boston-based business and technology consultant who believes that newspapers can remain viable. How? Well according to Durst,if they move quickly and use innovations such as “mobile codes.then have a cahnce of surviving. Magazines and newspapers should stop ...
  4 weeks ago

• What newspapers did next (1)

  
  Magtastic Blogsplosion — Authority: 451
  The aforementioned new issue of McSweeney’s is beginning to cause a stir in the American newspaper world, as the advance spreads seem to be getting people interested anew in the possibilities of newsprint. “Ah,” say the skeptics. “Easy for them – they’ve had months to work on it. You couldn’t ...
  4 weeks ago

• Digg CEO: People wont pay for online news

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Technology Blog — Authority: 494
  Consumers won’t pay for news online, says Jay Adelson, chief executive of Digg. As a man who runs a news aggregator, Adelson clearly has an interest in ensuring that news remains freely accessible. Instead, Adelson wants to interest newspapers in Digg’s advertising system and share revenue that way. Adelson told ...
  4 weeks ago

• Readers will/will not pay for online news (delete as applicable)

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Technology Blog — Authority: 494
  Up to 48 per cent of British and American readers would pay for online news, according to a new survey by the Boston Consulting Group.The survey of 5,000 people in nine countries found that those who would pay for news favoured a monthly subscription and would be prepared to pay anything from £1.80 per month [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Business model for newspapers

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  by Joel ThurtellHeard about a business model for newspapers.Goes like this: Write news, sell ads, print a paper and hawk it, mail it, put it in vending machines, newsstands and let people decide if they want to buy it.In small towns where I know the newspaper proprietors or where I visit often enough to be [...]
  4 weeks ago

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