Death of Print

Man Bites Dog: Newspapers Outlive Themselves; Blissfully Unaware Becomes an Artform

Richard Laermer | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business

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Richard Laermer

Golly, imagine. Thanks to the online Op-Eds, I can get Maureen Dowd's opinion on something before tomorrow's paper comes out! I can even, *gasp*, comment on what she wrote!

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The Axe, the Book, and the Ad

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media

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Tom Engelhardt

As with GM, it has been easier and far more immediately profitable for big publishers to just keep selling the "SUVs" of books until their business model went into the toilet rather than try to prepare for a new world.

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Jason Linkins

Jon Friedman Tries To Save Portfolio

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Portfolio, Portfolio Magazine, Jon Friedman, Death of Print, Dov Charney, Magazines, Media News

Jon Friedman has a video up today in which he proposes that Conde Nast's coffee table collectible for Wall Street middle managers Portfolio is a "good...

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Is There a Future for Newspapers?

Jack Myers | Posted 10.27.2008 | Business

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Jack Myers

But newspapers have valuable assets that could enable them to recapture their local market dominance, if they act quickly and definitely.

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