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Newspaper Economics

while we may look at this as the failure of a business model in today's global economy, it is really a loss for democracy that will make our country a badly informed one on important issues. While the internet is an excellent research tool, it is an easy one for disimination of misinformation and fraudolous reporting

Newspapers: Can Less News Create Higher Margins?

the papers that will do best are those with either a national or regional brand that can maintain high quality and supplement the hard copy with the e-solution, but there will be some publishers that will destroy some brands in their quest to cut costs.

The Home Start Numbers Are Not a Positive

as somebody that was in the process of building a vacation home, it is now cheaper to buy an existing property and re-tool it than to build new, as long as that equation holds the builders will have a challenge

More on Public Ownership of Newspapers

As someone that has been involved in the media industry for 35 years the last 16 in newspapers, it is clear that just like in other business categories, the constant demands from Wall Street cannot be met by today's industry, and the technological entertainment revolution led by the internet and tools like YouTube has essentally empowered consumers to have information on demand and has completely disipated the value of traditional media as we know it.