Saturday, February 28, 2009

Kill the Newspapers

Marc Andreesen says killing the print edition of newspapers to survive. His thesis: the print advertising dollars have to go somewhere. Newspaper Web sites won't get all of it, but thanks to dramatically lower publishing and distribution costs, they'll get enough to be profitable.

He may be on to something. I hope one of the about-to-be-shutdown publications in one-newspaper towns tries this (I'm looking at you San Francisco Chronicle) to test this theory. What have they got to lose?

Friday, February 27, 2009

The meltdown continues

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If I turned in a chart like this to my newspaper’s art department, they would call me to double-check that the last number wasn’t a mistake.