New Hampshire newspaper editors and publishers met at UNH in Durham the other night to discuss challenges faced by the industry. It was an opportunity for a discussion about the newspaper business that, as the organizer and The Telegraph’s publisher, Terry Williams, pointed out, looked beyond the problems faced by the major, debt-laden, metro papers [...]
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The Office recently riffed on pay-walls on newspaper Web sites, in particular the Wall Street Journal. There’s probably not a newspaper Web site in the country right now not trying to figure out what the right balance between continuing to increase traffic and support growing ad inventory, while at the same time protecting print subscriptions, [...]
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The newspaper industry is under a tremendous amount of pressure right now, both in terms of cyclical changes — the recession and its direct impact on ad revenues — and longer term challenges such as declining circulation which, while exacerbated by the Internet, was actually a trend that began prior to the Web. Some of [...]
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Mulling the Media Management Center’s “How to Become ‘Easy to Use’ Online” study (it’s a quick read and available to download here). The key point seems obvious in retrospect but well worth stating by the study’s authors and repeating here: whether a site is “easy to use” is going to going to vary depending on [...]
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