"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Guests will be asked if they want a paper rather than just getting outside the door. They estimate this will cut distribution by 18 million copies a year. That’s a lot of dead trees. Much of the USA Today circulation…
Just published last Friday, Shirky’s “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable” has already become a classic on the subject. Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what…
Shirky “If the old [newspaper] model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke. Why? Because…
The Guardian is opening up their news to everyone with Open Platform, with an open API. it’s free, you can do whatever you want with the news, reprint it, mash it up, whatever. However they will runs ads in it.…
Their parent company Hearst said the Seattle P-I will either close or go online only within 60 days if a buyer can’t be found. Given that Seattle is a highly wired city with lots of techies, an online-only newspaper might…