The transition from mere a newspaper to full-blown social news organizations (SNO) requires a significant investement in technological infrastructre. That’s not an easy bullet to bite when ad-revenues are falling and potential investors are increasingly wary of a fledgling industry. So perhaps print publishers should be looking at technology VCs, rather than the more conventional [...]
Maybe what’s plaguing so many local newspapers these days is that they aren’t so “local” anymore. I mean, one of the ideas that Tom Foremski had about how newspapers, especially local ones, could reinvent themselves was by owning their local stories — from community reporting to business and political stories that originate within their beat. [...]
Whatever “it” is, Monty Python seems to have it by the short hairs. I came across this on Johnnie Moore’s blog (who found it on Geoff Jones’ blog). First, the strategy it is exemplar of an established media brand rolling with a fury of punches it can’t deflect. Second, the content is perfectly formated for [...]
