Sunday, August 23, 2009

What of the clipping services now?

The death of the Ann Arbor News brought up some interesting questions in this Columbus Dispatch (I'll let go the irony of the Columbus paper lamenting the death of an Ann Arbor anything) article.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is the annarbor.com "paper" that much different than the Ann Arbor News was before this?

23 August, 2009 14:16
Anonymous said...

And this from the article:

"Thirty years into the business, that's not what I thought would happen," said longtime newspaperman Tony Dearing, now the Web site's "content director."

But as editor of The Flint Journal, also published by Advance, Dearing said he saw what newspaper executives across the country have faced: "declining revenues, declining staff and declining news hole. We were in a downward cycle, and I didn't see any way out of it."

Wow, the great visionary of AnnArbor.com, one of the leaders during the time of demise with this gem:

"We were in a downward cycle, and I didn't see any way out of it."

And this is the guy Advance handed over the controls to their great new adventure.

Unbelieveable.

23 August, 2009 14:18

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