Newspaper Bosses ‘Paralyzed’ By Change, Clueless About Paid Content, Says Steve Brill

A stumbling newspaper industry has been clueless on paywalls and in how to produce content people will actually spend money to read, says Steve Brill.

But why should one be surprised, he contends, given the frequent make-up of its executive class? To him, it's often been a bunch of rich kids who inherited a paper from mom and dad and continued a tradition of local monopolies. They never had to really compete, aren't big thinkers and were "paralyzed" when real change hit the industry.

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