Further proof that AOL and Yahoo could save News

http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/10/look-whos-hiring-journalists-at-ona-2009/

Who says we can’t cover big stories?

We’re worried about the future of investigative reporting and the AP listed 9 staffers as contributors to the David Letterman affair story. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091003/ap_en_tv/us_tv_letterman_extortion

So What Do You Do, Polaris Ventures Senior Adviser Larry Kramer?

This media business authority explains how companies can “avoid tragedy” by developing alternative revenue streams
By David Hirschman – May 20, 2009
Larry Kramer didn’t intend to be a media entrepreneur: Growing up, all he wanted to be was an investigative reporter and editor, breaking Watergate-like stories from the side of business. But after following this path [...]

How Time Warner Blew It

Time Warner’s decision last week to spin off AOL marks the end of a spectacularly failed merger. One that actually could have worked.
AOL will likely become its own company again shortly, ending one of world’s most spectacularly failed mergers. It didn’t have to end this way.
Despite how badly things went from the beginning of the [...]

Why Steve Brill may not be crazy — this time

Charging for online content is possible
By Larry Kramer
NEW YORK– There are many who believe you can’t charge for content on the Web. They fear consumers stand firm in their conviction that all online content should be free. Therefore, you simply can’t charge.
Those who believe that are probably wrong. But most media executives are too scared [...]

Hearst to take the leap: Seattle to go All-Digital

According to sources in The Hearst Corp. the company is will be the first major media company to convert a metropolitan daily newspaper into a website, and end it’s run as a printed newspaper.
When Hearst follows through on its promise to shut down the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sometime over the next few weeks, it will announce [...]

News Inc.? The Second Coming of Newspapers

Today’s collapse of the Rocky Mountain News has prompted the usual hysterics and hand-wringing over the death of print—but people need to get over the notion that quality news only comes on paper.
OK, so now it has begun. The Rocky Mountain News, Denver’s 150-year-old daily newspaper, is shutting its doors tomorrow. I fear this will [...]

How Can Newspapers Survive?

Newspapers are still the best-staffed news organizations and remain journalism’s brightest hope—if they can only break their addiction to print.

It’s one of my favorite lines in Citizen Kane, the 1941 classic about a newspaper publisher. Kane is responding to his top financial advisor who just pointed out that Kane’s newspaper empire is losing a million [...]

Who Shot Network Television?

You don’t need a CSI team to see that the wounds have been largely self-inflicted, but the networks can pull through if they recommit to innovative programming, says a media veteran.
A couple of key developments have been overlooked among the job cuts and bankruptcy filings in Media Land of late, but they’ll have huge significance [...]