Archive for the ‘The Biz’ Category

N.Y. Times’ Bill Keller

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December 13th, 2008

Great NPR piece about the future of newspapers with Bill Keller, editor, NYT. The article includes the audio interview with Bill and is revealing. He sees the future of newspapers in digital products serving users in new ways. He also mentions the use of social media by the Obama campaign as a successful method to [...]

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Changes at Christian Science Monitor

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November 2nd, 2008

Chris O’Brien has an excellent analysis on the debate of online vs print news distribution in his blog nextnewsroom. The discussion surrounds the decision of CSN to scuttle their print edition and focus online on online distribution. But, Chris really nails the bigger issue for newspapers. As he says, “The fundamental problem newspapers have today [...]

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CUNY’s Summit on News

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October 25th, 2008

CUNY’s “New Business Models for News” summit attracted a diverse group of news executives and creative minds to NYC last week. CUNY’s first summit explored how newspapers can move forward given challenging circumstances. Check out the video and blog at the grad school website.
Tim Winsor does a nice job writing about the summit on his [...]

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Memphis paper launches e-Appeal

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September 29th, 2008

While e-editions have been around for a while,  the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, TN is using technology from Technavia to deliver the newspaper on phone and computer along with traditional print delivery. The paper has replaced some print editions with e-Appeal to reduce costs.
The e-Appeal will be delivered by 5:00 am each morning. Print subscribers get [...]

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