What’s the Problem with Newspapers?

What’s the problem with newspapers? It’s not complicated: Print revenue = shrinking.  Print costs = constant.  Online revenue = growing, but small, and online revenue isn’t mature enough to replace the print revenue, yet. Right? Brand new paperless...

The Ideal Journalist

I was having a discussion with a journalist the other day about what combination of skills/traits are desirable in a journalist today.We came up with some interesting thoughts.According to us, the ideal journalist (without the support of a staff) should: 1. Be a great...

15 Years of Progress

Back in America pre-1995, this was the communication landscape: 9,000 commercial radio stations 1,100 television stations 11,000 periodicals 11,000 newspapers. How have things changed?  Despite the best efforts of media executives to extinct themselves, there are...