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29 Oct 09

Newspapers Raise Prices to Fight Falling Circulation

Some newspapers are increasing their revenue by raising prices for their papers, even as their circulation numbers shrink.

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28 Jun 09

Newspaper Model for Success: Ditch the Press, Dismiss the Staff

Newly crunched numbers show that an online-only news operation can run with 20 employees in a moderately sized city.

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the local, online-only newspaper of tomorrow, for a decent-sized city, will have a staff of 20 people. That’s 20 people, period. Perhaps six of them will be “news gatherers.”
But no matter how you fiddle with the numbers, there’s no way that Josephson’s model gets you anywhere close to old newspaper staffing levels, whereby a paper like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer employed 150 people on the editorial side alone.

12 Apr 09

AP Exec: “To the Untrained Eye It Looks Like We’re Stupid”

Peter Kafka at All Things Digital takes a look at the AP's actions over the past week and gives a nice summary of the plot up to now.

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31 Dec 08

How to Comment on a Blog: The Air Force’s Flowchart

Peter Kafka at All Things Digital takes a look at what appears to be a very logical and thoughtful flow-chart Air Force personnel use to determine whether they need to respond to a blog post.

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