how about linking to the report.

The model of delivering news and therefore it’s revenue streams are changing. The public’s appetite for news (either side of the pond) will never cease, so news sources will live on (perhaps the paper will be dropped from Newspaper.)

I think that we are a tipping point in the “media” as a whole. Large multinational news organisations will have to change fast and diversify if they are to keep pace.

The trend in the UK of large news groups such as Trinity Mirror, Northclife and News Quest who own 80% of the regional press (and turn out a singluarly onesided view of events) will come to an end, as revenues disapear to online blogs / sites and specialist TV sites, who fill the void and provide up to the minute news.

Listen to the winds of change…..

Even now, it seems few in the industry get this. I haven’t heard of a single newspaper that has reacted to this crisis by creating a product that more readers will be passionate about. Instead, they make cuts and fill the paper with more AP stories and local news that no one wants to read about (crime, fires, etc.).

There are other issues, of course, but if there’s no strong bond between a newspaper and a good size portion of its readers, the rest is moot.

Economic definition is income per capita. To compare online and print media, calculate revenues per reporter after deducting print and circulation costs. If newspapers can’t compete on productivity, then paper will disappear – regardless of the preferences of die-hard subscribers.

Online publishers need to earn higher eCPM. Print publishers continue to squeeze costs. Newspapers are f’ed

I pay big money to watch a scene like that.

“You’re *fired*. You have five minutes to get out of my building or I’ll *bounce* you out like flat basketballs.”

Somebody will publish a modest newspaper for people who still want to sit down and pick up a paper. As someone who’s totally wired, and wireless, and spends all day in front of a screen, I know there are many people who don’t live like that. I try to keep that in mind. A poll of Buzzmachine readers about paper would be like a poll of bicyclists about SUVs.

I have a recurring dream. The ST value keeps diminishing to the point that the only buyer is Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Of course he buys ST for a fire sale price. This is poetic justice.

Give me three years (and complete control) and I could make the POS Denver Post into a great and profitable newspaper.

It’s currently a cluttered, biased AP reprinter. That’s fixable.

First day: Gather all the reporters into a room (rent the convention center next door if necessary) and ask everyone who is a reporter “to make a difference” to raise their hand. Fire everyone with their hand up.