tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post7992108381142364288..comments2023-11-05T06:26:51.316-05:00Comments on Gannett Blog: Tech 101 | As goes NYT Digital, so goes Gannett's?Jim Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-51664442948472074172010-07-21T17:09:02.045-04:002010-07-21T17:09:02.045-04:00Municipalities are beginning to promote their own ...Municipalities are beginning to promote their own "Shop Local" businesses on their websites. The local business ads are absolutely "FREE."<br /><br />Below is one example:<br /><br />http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2010/07/randolph_website_touts_local_b.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-6334901645907987482010-07-21T12:40:30.172-04:002010-07-21T12:40:30.172-04:00Plus, print weeklies can leverage the advantages o...Plus, print weeklies can leverage the advantages of dailies, by developing newsy websites.Jim Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-57970574339233220062010-07-21T12:16:03.870-04:002010-07-21T12:16:03.870-04:00Quality weeklies, and by that I mean ones with har...Quality weeklies, and by that I mean ones with hard news coverage of close-to-home issues, may likely replace the standard small-market daily.<br /><br />I really think there's a future in weeklies as long as they can deliver more than fluff and filler.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-6711572160243510312010-07-21T10:17:44.742-04:002010-07-21T10:17:44.742-04:00Local Journalism is going to be dead... Certainly ...Local Journalism is going to be dead... Certainly papers with circulation the size of a Lansing Journal or Monterey Herald die. The bigger question is what happens to papers like the Boston Globe, Detroit News, Arizona Republic, Chicago Sun-Times, etc. Can these metropolis/megaopolis papers find ways to keep printing or not? Wall Street Journal, New York Times, (and possibly if Gannett can getAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-64126620492373226692010-07-21T09:44:19.259-04:002010-07-21T09:44:19.259-04:00How creditable should Blodget be?
He was charged w...How creditable should Blodget be?<br />He was charged with fraud by the SEC in 2003 and settled for $4M. He got caught by Eliot Spitzer in 2002 when the former NY AG released emails Blodget wrote about his Merrill Lynch stock picks that conflicted with his publicly published ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-45045481449969945452010-07-21T07:59:34.402-04:002010-07-21T07:59:34.402-04:00It's no shock that a digital "paper"...It's no shock that a digital "paper" will sustain fewer news gatherers than a printed version.<br /><br />It seems to me that Gannett's consolidation moves are simply a transitory phase. The company will save a few bucks in the short term, and be better positioned to downsize its local operations in a few years.<br /><br />Yep, we're looking at only a few more years of print.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-79318221469712713972010-07-21T01:33:31.175-04:002010-07-21T01:33:31.175-04:00Five years sounds like a pretty tight timeline, bu...Five years sounds like a pretty tight timeline, but it's hard to argue with the basic reasoning. I would guess 10 years ... assuming a modest economic recovery. <br /><br />If we go into a double dip recession he may be dead on with that five-year figure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com