Reflections of a Newsosaur

This column originally was published in the July edition of Editor & Publisher Magazine and is being reprinted with permission. To subscribe to the magazine so you can see the full array of industry coverage when it first appears in print, click here.One of the biggest...
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Although the shares of the publicly traded newspaper companies have advanced impressively from their all-time lows 12 months ago, they still are worth on average about a fifth of their value on June 30, 2005. The good news for the battered publish...
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<!--StartFragment-->The pesky problem of paying for the news could be resolved rather fast if publishers and broadcasters just charged Steve Jobs a nickel a word for all the free hype they provide to sell his iParaphernalia. While I admit to being as fascinated as the next guy with Apple’s electronic...
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With newspaper share prices up some 380% in the last 12 months, even the ordinarily incisive Economist Magazine last week offered an upbeat appraisal for an industry that many had written off for dead a year ago. But it is flat wrong to believe th...
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Now that we have bought all those expensive iPads – and we know who all of you early adopters are, too – what are we going to do with them? Here’s the first in an occasional look at what’s hot – and not – in App-Land. Top Picks ...
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<!--StartFragment--> Springtime seems to have brought a refreshing zeal for innovation to the nation’s battered newspapers. And, not a moment too soon, given the 27% drop in advertising sales in 2009. But, as I learned in my decades of running and financing start-up businesses, it takes more than...
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Fed up with furloughs and down-sizing – or forced involuntarily out of their jobs – journalists across the land are taking matters into their own hands by starting their own news sites. While I applaud these brave and commendable efforts, I fe...
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A clever bit of programming has provided a visual aid to illustrate the unfathomable damage being caused by the 880-fathom-deep gusher pumping untold gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This visual aid is a customizable Google Map at a website ...
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Yahoo appears to be getting ready to produce local websites filled with original content that could compete with newspapers, posing a particular challenge to the hundreds of publishers who now sell advertising for the powerful portal. The apparent...
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The decline in newspaper advertising eased in the first three months of 2010, but the industry exited the quarter with less than half the revenue base it had in the same period in 2005. Print ad sales for the industry skidded 11.4% in the first three months...
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