I was talking to a “newspaper insider” the other day about the convergence of media and the somewhat incestuous relationship between metro newspapers, radio stations, and television stations. In our market, the Indianapolis Star has tried to create as many new online properties as they have new print properties in the last few years. (See [...]

Steve Yelvington wrote a great blog post about the arrogance and mindset of newspapers entitled “Resolution: Newspapers should be more like Apple.” One of my favorite quotes is:
After half a century or so of near-monopolistic market dominance, the average daily newspaper has developed a lot of really bad habits: rudeness, arrogant pricing, poor customer service [...]

Interesting article from Jason Goldberg at SocialMedian.com today regarding the “new news.”
What is known is that the business of delivering the news has to change.  It’s no longer economical to produce print in the age of digital.  How can a printing company saddled with manufacturing and real-world product delivery compete with the economies of virtualization? 
I somewhat [...]

Interesting story today in the Washington Post (”Storming the News Gatekeepers“) where the debate over whether citizen journalists are really journalists or not.
“The term ‘citizen journalist’ has an Orwellian ring to it,” says Andrew Keen, author of “The Cult of the Amateur,” who’s criticized the Web 2.0-Wikipedia world, where everyone can become their own editors.
“People [...]

With all the talk about global warming, $90 per barrell oil, recycling, and going digital, why don’t newspapers get beat up for pumping out millions of tons of newsprint each day? Our family started getting serious about recycling this year, converting almost half of our “trash” into “recyclable waste” almost overnight. We have one bin [...]

More than 59 million people (37.3% of all active Internet users) visited newspaper Web sites on average during the second quarter of 2007, a record number that represents a 7.7% increase over the same period a year ago, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Newspaper Web site visitors generated nearly 2.7 billion page [...]

Newspapers are doing more and more online, but they are losing ground to other online news sources, social networks, and narrower niche websites. According to statistics gathered by Alexa.com (owned by Amazon.com), the largest newspaper websites have all been declining in online rank since January 2006. (see 5-year chart below)

Their page view rank is on [...]

If you are still investing in daily newspaper ads, be aware that their business continues to slip. According to the Washington Post:
Newspaper advertising revenue continues to edge downward, with first-quarter declines reported yesterday at three of the industry’s largest companies — including Tribune Co., which is counting on cash flow to help pay down $13 [...]

An article from the New York Times sheds light on the continual downward decline in ad sales at Gannett, a prediction I made last year in my post entitled “Why Newspapers Are Dying a Slow, Painful Death.” Seems that USA Today is taking on water faster (14% decline from February 2006-February 2007) than the local [...]

The American Journal Review posted an article by Dana Hull entitled “Blogging Between the Lines” that deals with the current predicament that newspapers now find themselves in with the Internet. She writes that “the mainstream media have fallen in love with blogs, launching them on everything from politics to life in Las Vegas to bowling. [...]