Google Seduces With Utility -from NYTimes.com David Carr Excellent article highlighting how Google is getting into our daily lives and how we are using new media to run our lives.
The Newspapers: Rating The Top 25 Newspaper Websites -from 247wallstreet.com This is an older article from June 2008, but it has lots of newspaper website analytics and I love comparing past to present. My favorite is that they declare what we’ve been suspecting on metaprinter. That “The New York Times (Average daily circulation 1,007,256) (Compete online audience: 12,188,886) NYTimes.com is the single best daily newspaper site in the country. “ BUT THE PAPER IS LOSING MONEY! This is a revenue model problem, not a readership problem.
Should Newspapers Become Online Ad Brokers? -from PBS Mediashift I’m not convinced that this is the correct direction newspapers need to go in order to remain profitable. I do think that newspapers need to dramaticaly simplify their advertising process, but to become a broker would shift the focus away from their core product which is generating and reporting news.
Rating agency’s outlook down on newspaper industry -from Axcess News Moody’s outlook on the newspaper industry for 2009 is bleak. The article cites the biggest problems as Cashflow from declining print ads and their resulting liquidity ratios which drive up debt costs.
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