The Newsonomics of the Newspaper Industry as the Republican Party
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab The pictures told much of the story. As the networks beamed in live coverage of Barack Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s gatherings on election nights, their anchors...
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First published at Nieman Journalism Lab It takes at least three special qualities to be in — much less to enter — the newspaper business these days. We can borrow them from L. Frank Baum: heart,...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Patch’s Unraveling
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab Too much of last week’s Patch news focused on CEO Tim Armstrong. Sure, it was a memorably punk moment, one of those historic instants (recall that other...
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The Newsonomics of Public Radio’s All-in-One Tablet Strategy
First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab It’s a tablet experiment in cross-pollination. How do you use the 48 square inches of an iPad to expose the depth of public radio — thousands of...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of How the News Industry Will Be Tested in 2014
First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab Our 2014 stage is set, and oh what a marvelous assortment of characters will be walking across it. Many of these characters — the Bezoses, Henrys,...
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The Newsonomics of NPR One and the Dream of Personalized Public Radio
Follow Newsonomics on Twitter @kdoctor First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab Wouldn’t it be cool if public radio fans could get to all their stuff in one simple app? Stuff from Morning...
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Newsonomics: Why Native Apps Still Matter in the Age of Distribution
Does a brand still mean anything in news? Ezra Klein bubbled up a provocative question and raised some good points in his recent piece “Is the media becoming a wire service?” In the Age of...
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Newsonomics: In Southern California’s Newspaper Chaos, Is Anyone Really...
William Baer, assistant attorney general in charge of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, had already bluntly told all involved in the Freedom Communications newspaper bankruptcy auction...
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Newsonomics: Inside L.A.’s Journalistic Collapse
How far is The Post from Los Angeles? Figure almost 50 years, as well as 3,000 miles. While big audiences and the remaining fully paid journalists can delight in the triumphant Spielbergian tale of The...
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Newsonomics: Tomorrow’s Life-Or-Death Decisions For Newspapers Are Suddenly...
As local newspapers’ businesses hit the skids, they’re finding themselves careening right now into a future they’d thought was still several years away. “We are all going to jump ahead three years,”...
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