Comments on: Newsosaur’s roar http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/02/04/newsosaurs-roar/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:33:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Show me the Money!…but where is it? « Bippity Boppity Blog http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/02/04/newsosaurs-roar/#comment-390402 Show me the Money!…but where is it? « Bippity Boppity Blog Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:54:22 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=4157#comment-390402 [...] Also check out what Jeff Jarvis thinks about news, post-print at  http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/02/04/newsosaurs-roar/   [...] [...] Also check out what Jeff Jarvis thinks about news, post-print at  http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/02/04/newsosaurs-roar/   [...]

]]> By: Person of Choler http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/02/04/newsosaurs-roar/#comment-390289 Person of Choler Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:22:29 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=4157#comment-390289 To me, the print newspaper business model seems to be: package advertisements of stuff I don't want with useless fluff about things I don't care about (e.g. lifestyle pages) and biased, shallow claptrap masquerading as "news". Therefore, I haven't subscribed to a newspaper since I happily dropped my subscription to the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1989. To me, the print newspaper business model seems to be: package advertisements of stuff I don’t want with useless fluff about things I don’t care about (e.g. lifestyle pages) and biased, shallow claptrap masquerading as “news”.

Therefore, I haven’t subscribed to a newspaper since I happily dropped my subscription to the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1989.

]]> By: Newspapers aren’t dead, part 2 « Virtualjournalist http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/02/04/newsosaurs-roar/#comment-390277 Newspapers aren’t dead, part 2 « Virtualjournalist Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:04:07 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=4157#comment-390277 [...] guru, noted “Blog Daddy” and author of What Would Google Do? — thanks Mutter for doing the math, but offers this counterpoint: Some papers simply cannot afford the cost of print now and so [...] [...] guru, noted “Blog Daddy” and author of What Would Google Do? — thanks Mutter for doing the math, but offers this counterpoint: Some papers simply cannot afford the cost of print now and so [...]

]]> By: Alan Mutter http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/02/04/newsosaurs-roar/#comment-390227 Alan Mutter Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:09:28 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=4157#comment-390227 I totally agree with you, Jeff, that classified ads - and thus, web upsells - are melting away before our eyes. Because classified upsells deliver approximately two-thirds of the online revenues at most papers, publishers planning to stop their presses in perpetuity need to identify robust and diversified revenue streams to replace the two-thirds of their revenue that is drying up. In other words: Regardless of how compelling you think the economic argument is to abandon print publishing, most newspapers simply are not ready to do so, because they are so heavily dependent on print-centric revenue streams. I also wholeheartedly agree with you that newspapers had better "frigging well" plan on what's going to happen when the print business shrivels to the point that it is not compensatory to keep producing the physical product. Some papers are close to this point. And others, like the SF Chronicle which notably loses something like $1 million a week, are beyond it. Safe travels. I totally agree with you, Jeff, that classified ads – and thus, web upsells – are melting away before our eyes.

Because classified upsells deliver approximately two-thirds of the online revenues at most papers, publishers planning to stop their presses in perpetuity need to identify robust and diversified revenue streams to replace the two-thirds of their revenue that is drying up.

In other words: Regardless of how compelling you think the economic argument is to abandon print publishing, most newspapers simply are not ready to do so, because they are so heavily dependent on print-centric revenue streams.

I also wholeheartedly agree with you that newspapers had better “frigging well” plan on what’s going to happen when the print business shrivels to the point that it is not compensatory to keep producing the physical product.

Some papers are close to this point. And others, like the SF Chronicle which notably loses something like $1 million a week, are beyond it.

Safe travels.

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