Thursday, July 12, 2012

Three approaches to saving the newspaper business

Reflections of a Newsosaur has given us an outline to the current three approaches to "saving" the newspaper business. Advance's approach is one of the three. There are a couple links included in the Advance part of the story you may want to follow.

One of the links is to a June 3 NY Times story that has some interesting reflections about the success, or lack of success, of AnnArbor.com. Advance protects its business information so some of the speculations is just that. However the loss of 20,000 newspaper subscribers in just three years is hard to hide.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Just in case the good people of the fine city of New Orleans and the staff at the Times-Picayune are wondering what kind of journalism will transpire from the changes, here is an example:

http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2012/07/to_celebrate_711_7-eleven_serv.html

Whatever happened to the phrase: "Tell 'em to buy an ad."