Howard Weaver wants newspapers to play offense against Google and others, but Chris Tolles, CEO of news aggregator Topix.com says he’s been trying Weaver’s plan for a while, and there’s no bucket of gold to be found in it.
The problem, it would appear, is that newspapers don’t sell news. They sell advertising space and pair [...]
Posted July 20, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: business model, loss leader, mainstream media, news, newspapers. 2 Comments.
Speaking at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism last month, David Halberstam struck the chord of competition journalists must struggle with. As a newspaper man who started at the smallest newspaper in Mississippi and worked his way up to the New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the Vietnam War, he [...]
Posted May 2, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: competition, David Halberstam, dissemination, media, news writing, newspapers, speech, storytelling, television news, tv vs. newspapers. One Comment.
