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Color it preposterous
The “Financial Crisis” version of “Blame the Journalists.” I believe a former investigative reporter for Atlanta’s daily newspaper likely pitched the snowball that grew into the avalanche and buried our leading mortgage institutions. That’s the “blame the journalists” premise from journalist Mike Masterson in a column last week in the Arkansas Gazette Democrat. Not Freddie,…
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Sleepless in the corner office
“It just seems impossible to me that you’re cutting costs dramatically without having some impact on the editorial quality of your product,” said Peter Appert, a newspaper analyst at Goldman Sachs. “I can’t prove that this is driving circulation, but it’s certainly something that if I were a newspaper publisher would keep me up at…
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I’m wrong if middle-America goes paperless
I did make the wild-ass claim recently in an research interview that mid-market newspapers will survive — just not in their present form. Much of that revolves around their digital strategies. I think that’s a winnable bet. Cnet technology columnist Don Reisinger has a dimmer view of the future for mid-market papers. Do you think…