Thought For The Day: Marriott Corp.’s recent decision to stop delivering the paper to hotel guest rooms won’t affect the numbers until the next reporting period
Today’s links paint a picture of the abrupt end of about 80 years of specialized prosperity for the newspapers. Immense fortunes were made and lost by the moguls who built these media empires. Today’s new moguls look like internet property owners.
The newspapers have been around since the mid 1700s. They didn’t get really interesting until the 1830s when a steam engine driven printing press made volume printing possible at a reasonable price. Over the following 175 years, they have adapted to each new wave of technology.
The question today is not whether the news function will survive, it is how? As Bill James notes, 100 years from now, this will look like a tempest in a teapot.
- 23 of Top 25 Newspapers Post Circulation Declines
It continues to fall, the papers get smaller. There is some amazing reporting being done in the dwindling page count. - U.S. Daily Newspaper Circulation Plummets
A graph to demonstrate the death spiral. - Nielsen report on the state if the web.
One of the things that web ads are bad for is branding. This report’s punchline is that no one can remember a web ad. That’s probably a growth area for print media. - Bill James on The Future of Newspapers
Bill James matter of factly diagnoses the current ills as a transition just like other transitions. - Are magazines doomed, too?
The basic premise of print media is decaying. They want to be content purveyors. Where they have a role is as community builders. Or, at least that’s what Jeff Jarvis thinks. - Remember When Online Ads Were Going To Save Newspapers?
A chart comparing overall revenue and internet ad revenue for newspapers. Google beat them at their own game. - The Way To Save Newspapers? Kill More Of Them
..Like millions of homeowners, newspapers are buried in debt.
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