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By: Alan D. Mutter “I sell bellybuttons,” said Robert M. McCormick, one of the greatest ad salesmen who ever lived. That’s the best description you’ll ever hear of the classic newspaper mass-media business model, which worked …
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By: O. Ricardo Pimentel When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled, or so the adage goes. The adage doesn’t anticipate an effective referee. On the issue of Net neutrality, the little guys — Internet users, in this case — …
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By: Jim Rosenberg In the days before the launch of the Apple iPad, the biggest newspapers in America — USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times — contended to be first out of the gate with an app. It seemed inevitable they …
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By: Jim Rosenberg Part 2 of E&P's June cover story on tablets. Devising a model for income is at least as tricky as figuring how to invest in product development. As device choices grow and prices shrink, bundling hardware at a discount with …
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By: Jim Rosenberg Part 3 of E&P's June cover story on tablets. The formats are all modern, but for newspapers looking to present content on a variety of tablets and e-readers, the process may seem like using several old typesetter languages for …
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By: E&P Staff Until recently, the modus operandi of the U.S. Postal Service was to swear up and down that no way did it favor direct mail over newspapers — c’mon, newspapers are our oldest customers! — while constantly …
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By: Mario Garcia Here’s the question I’ve been hearing more and more frequently from newspaper publishers and editors in the weeks since the launch of Apple’s iPad: We want to develop a tablet edition — but how do you start?I …
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By: Shawn Moynihan For Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Kim Komenich, fighting crime is evidently all in a day’s work. A former photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, Komenich — who won the 1987 Pulitzer for spot news photography …
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By: Jim Rosenberg Part four of E&P's June cover story on tablets. Hearst Corp. launched FirstPaper with what seemed general and broad objectives: build a platform to serve newspapers and their readers, and build an e-reader tailored for …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Even as newspaper newsrooms shrank at unprecedented rates, jettisoning at least 13,500 journalists since 2007, The Newspaper Guild seems to be more active than even in the heydays of newspaper unions. The CWA unit in recent …
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By: Debra Gersh Hernandez When presidential administrations change, newspapers prepare for changes in their regulatory, business and legal environments. As Tonda Rush, director of public policy for community newspaper group the National Newspaper …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald A unique campaign that launches this summer to promote the First Amendment — and, not so coincidentally, its guarantee of a free press — proceeds from this insight: Americans love their First Amendment rights, …
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By: Shawn Moynihan These days, there are endless cases of strapped newspapers with downsized staffs, that are hurting for content. One New Jersey daily met this need by having an employee of one of its sports teams write stories about that team for …
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By: Shawn Moynihan Diversity in newsrooms is one of those issues that even in the best of times, often gets short shrift. But these are not the best of times, and recent findings by the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) provides a snapshot of …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald In August, ChicagoNow, a network of more than 300 local blogs created by the Chicago Tribune, expects to celebrate not just its first anniversary, but also its first profits. At a time when services like Patch abound, allowing …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Through the 1980s and 1990s, as organic circulation such as home delivery and single-copy sales sagged, many metro dailies responded by building up circ that was classified as “other paid circulation”: Bulk sales, …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald El Tiempo is by far Colombia’s biggest daily newspaper. Add in all Casa Editorial El Tiempo (CEET) properties — its downmarket tabloid daily Hoy, a financial news daily, six news, fashion and men’s magazines, …
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By: Rob Tornoe Mike Thompson spends hours creating the art, voices and sound effects for the animated editorial cartoons he produces weekly for the Detroit Free Press. Thompson started doing animated cartoons for his paper back in 2002, and since …
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By: Alan D. Mutter “I sell bellybuttons,” said Robert M. McCormick, one of the greatest ad salesmen who ever lived. That’s the best description you’ll ever hear of the classic newspaper mass-media business model, which worked …
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