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• Layoffs hit The Washington Post after BusinessWeek, AP

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 604
  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 ...
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• Salve-Thursdays Guardian Tech

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 512
  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 ...
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• Newspapers should stop thinking as fixed products and start acting valuable, branded interfaces to on

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 512
  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 ...
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• What newspapers did next (1)

  
  Magtastic Blogsplosion — Authority: 505
  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 ...
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• Digg CEO: People wont pay for online news

  
  Technology — Authority: 613
  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 ...
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• Readers will/will not pay for online news (delete as applicable)

  
  Technology — Authority: 613
  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 [...]
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• Business model for newspapers

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  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 [...]
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• The Observer wil be slimmed down

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 512
  So the Observer is slimming. Its much heralded announcement came as expected today.The Sunday will consist of four sections and three of the magazines are being axed with only the food monthly surviving. The four supplements are news, sport, an expanded Review section and the Observer magazine with business and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who scotched the tale?

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  By Joel ThurtellYou never know who scotched the tale,Only that it didn’t run.No space! No space!You know that’s bull.You never know why the yarn got spiked,Only that it didn’t run.No space! No space!What a load of crap.One day your story was the greatest thing in News.Talk of the City Desk,Headed for ...
  2 weeks ago

• D Day for the Observer

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 512
  According to this from the Sunday Times Staff at The Observer will learn their fate on Tuesday, when executives are expected to brief them on the future of the newspaper. The Scott Trust, the charity that owns The Observer’s publisher, Guardian Media Group, has decided to keep the title but in a drastically ...
  2 weeks ago

• Talking with Thomson Reuters chief about print

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 604
  Covering Thomson Reuters Corp for almost two years has taught me that people like to cast my company in a recurring role in media deal parlor games. Now that the company’s arch-rival Bloomberg LP will buy BusinessWeek magazine from McGraw-Hill, lots of my pals in the media world are wondering: Will Thomson Reuters ...
  3 weeks ago

• The secret of a newspapers success

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 512
  One newspaper that is doing well is Portugals newest daily newspaper, i, and the Editorsweblog tries to find out the reasons for its success. According to its editor-in-chief Martim Avillez Figueiredo the paper innovates by 1. Opinion is the first section of the paper, based on the key word think. No other ...
  3 weeks ago

• Big Ed’s ghost

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  By Joel ThurtellWe at JOTR are firm DISBELIEVERS in any kind of occult happenings, yet the appearance of an e-mail purportedly from the Other World piqued our curiosity. Its claim to have come from the late Wayne County executive, Edward McNamara, by itself seemed to argue for its genuineness. Why in the world would ...
  3 weeks ago

• Varnishing Detroit’s ‘Free’ Press

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  By Joel ThurtellThere was a time back in the 1980s when The Detroit Free Press killed not one, not two, but THREE editorial cartoons lampooning then U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese.Bosses were afraid those unvarnished drawings might prompt the AG to kill the coveted Gannett/Knight-Ridder Joint Operating Agreement ...
  3 weeks ago

• Boston Globe publisher retires after paper nearly dies

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 604
  Fifty-six. Is it the new 65? Ask Steven Ainsley, the 56-year-old publisher of The Boston Globe. He is retiring, parent company New York Times Co said on Thursday, after three years as publisher. His successor is Christopher Mayer, 47, who joined the globe in 1984. In the press release, the Times Co noted the two ...
  4 weeks ago

• France cracks on with its free papers for 18-24 year olds

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 512
  France announced the details behind its initiative to give free newspapers to all 18-24 year old yesterday. Originally proposed earlier in the year by the French President Nicholas Sarkozy,the project called “My Free Newspaper,”intends to give away papers to young readers in an effort to turn them into regular ...
  4 weeks ago

• How I learned to stop worrying and love bad newspaper news

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 604
  We had a hard time finding the good news in Monday’s report that U.S. newspaper circulation has fallen more than 10 percent, based on an analysis of 379 daily papers. Thank goodness for the newspapers whose publishers helped them understand why losing hundreds or thousands of paying readers is good. Most papers ...
  4 weeks ago

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