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Digital First Media is working on paywalls, even though it really doesn't want to
— Plenty of newspapers have been jumping headlong into the paywall business recently, and many of them claim that the introduction of subscription plans has been the best thing that ever happened to them.
Feb 4, 2013, 9:25 PM - In context
The newsonomics of 2013 wizardry: Tribune, Buffett, Murdoch, Paton, Bloomberg, and more
— 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, courage, and smarts.
Dec 23, 2012, 11:20 PM - In context
Why pushing for a paywall at the Washington Post completely misses the point
— As paywalls continue to spring up at newspapers both large and small, like mushrooms after a rainstorm, those who have chosen to take a different path — the Guardian in Britain, the Washington Post and Digital …
Nov 26, 2012, 3:10 PM - In context
Stop attacking ‘web-first’ as if the world is going to stand still
— This week feels very much like 2009. That year I published a post titled ‘How the web changed the economics of news’, a brief overview of some of the economic factors impacting on publishing which has recently experienced …
Oct 9, 2012, 7:35 AM - In context
David Carr on newspapers, Twitter and citizen journalism
— New York Times writer David Carr may not want to admit that he is a kind of rock star in media circles, but judging by the sold-out crowd of media types who showed up to watch him be interviewed by CBC radio host Michael Enright …
Sep 15, 2012, 12:35 PM - In context
Bill Grueskin / CJR:
Open letter to John Paton, CEO of Digital First Media
— Dear John, You and I have never met, but we have corresponded—a bit testily at times (more on that later). In light of last week's news, I wanted to follow up with another round of correspondence, and this time I'm doing it publicly, via the Columbia Journalism Review.
Sep 12, 2012, 8:15 AM - In context
Newspaper restructuring — think steel, cars and airlines
— If there is a poster child for the “digital first” newspaper movement, it is probably Journal Register Co., which manages a chain of dailies and weeklies in the eastern U.S. John Paton took the helm as CEO after it emerged from bankruptcy in 2009 …
Sep 9, 2012, 5:50 AM - In context
How Journal Register's bankruptcy might affect the revival of the New Haven Register
— In the spring of 2009, when I began researching what would become a book about online community journalism, I couldn't have found a better foil than the New Haven Register.
Sep 7, 2012, 7:10 AM - In context
Journal Register Co. declares bankruptcy...again: Is this the industry's first real reboot?
— It was just three years ago that the Journal Register Co. filed for bankruptcy, its collection of small local newspapers hit hard by the economic crisis and the secular decline of the newspaper industry.
Sep 5, 2012, 2:25 PM - In context
Why we should defend the changes at the Times-Picayune
— There's been a lot of criticism of Newhouse-owned Advance Publications since the media chain announced it was scaling back printing of some newspapers in Louisiana and Alabama, including the Times-Picayune in New Orleans …
Jul 11, 2012, 10:55 PM - In context
