July, 2009

The Newspaper Bundle Doesn’t Make Sense

by Clay Shirky
The Conversation
July 24th, 2009

While I agree with almost everything Steve Yelvington has written about the news business, I do want to take issue with one thing: I think assuming long-term profitability of smaller papers is whistling past a pretty big graveyard, for several reasons. First, the internet businesses that provide better service at less cost for markets like [...]

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From Walter Cronkite to Tiger Beatdown

by Clay Shirky
The Conversation
July 23rd, 2009

When you get four old white guys talking about journalism (45 may make me the baby of this quartet), you usually get re-runs of The Front Page and reminiscing about what a great paper the St. Louis Post-Dispatch used to be. What strikes me about the four posts here is the shared assumption that the [...]

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