Tag: NEWSPAPERS

Welcome back to Let's Play The Blame Game: Celebrity Edition! Earlier this week, Bon Jovi claimed Steve Jobs killed the music business; now Bob Woodward says Eric Schmidt snuffed out newspapers. The Washington Post journalist, made famous by uncovering and breaking the Watergate scandal, told the Poynter Institute that the tombstone of Google's soon-to-be-former CEO should read "I killed ...

The bad experiments in paywalls have begun. We knew we'd be seeing more newspapers and magazines charging readers to access some (or all) of their websites' content, and we knew that there would be a lot of crazy attempts to implement paywalls before anyone found a sustainable model (that is, if one exists at all). Local newspaper The Sun Chronicle, based in Massachusetts, has come up with one of ...

In an effort to retain a dwindling readership, some newspapers are equipping vending machines with credit and debit card readers. According to Advertising Age, The Wall Street Journal installed card readers on 190 newspaper boxes located in the greater New York area. It's a matter of convenience for customers, since many more people carry a Visa or Mastercard in their pockets than do quarters. The ...

As more and more people get their news from the Internet, several long standing papers have closed up shop and gone online-only. We expect others to follow. However, a new study from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication suggests that, although most folks increasingly prefer to read their news online, they don't necessarily want to see newspapers go away. Of ...

Print publications are hemorrhaging money while online ad revenue has cooled off. In this new environment, where consumers expect content to be provided for free, news outlets are still struggling to find a working, profitable business model that satisfies customers. Time Inc., which is owned by our parent company Time Warner, announced on Wednesday that it plans to experiment with hybrid ...

...And the flood gates have opened. Print publications are now in full-on death march mod,e and it's only a matter of time before newspapers become like vinyl records -- odd relics that hipsters cling to out of a false sense of nostalgia. Okay, so the chance that people will one day stack old, yellowing copies of the New York Times in milk crates around their studio apartment is pretty slim, but ...

With newspaper subscriptions continuing to decline, cartoonists are beginning to worry, according to a report in the New York Times. Speaking on the troubles besetting newspapers' print editions, 'Pearls Before Swine' creator Stephan Pastis told the Times, "For a syndicated cartoonist, that's like finally making it to the major leagues and being told the stadiums are all closing, so there's ...

Over the past few years, online and traditional outlets have ran hyperbolic editorials heralding the death of print. And while we've seen newspaper circulation shrink and seemingly timeless magazines such as Rolling Stone take severe cost cutting measures, nothing has really signaled that the printed word was really on its last leg. That is until this morning, when the Christian Science Monitor ...

Google is continuing its march towards becoming the source for all the world's information.The search giant is expanding a program it launched in 2006 with the cooperation of The New York Times and The Washington Post to share those newspaper's archives. Now, Google is indexing and digitizing papers from around the country, including smaller local papers, which often don't have digital archives ...

Yeah, quite a few rags out there have already diverted at least some of their efforts to the electronic press, but according to E Ink's Ryosuke Kuwata, the trend is set to explode in late 2009. Said VP, who is currently in charge of market development, admitted that some newspapers in Japan, America and Europe are all looking to make the move to e-paper in the not-too-distant future. He also ...

All the news that's fit to print may someday be free, according to a new poll from Zogby International. The polling firm asked newspaper editors around the world what they thought would be the future of newspapers, and most agreed that there was a future in print but that pressures from online media would force them to adjust how they do business. Some key points: 86 percent of respondents ...