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Poynter Media Business Analyst Rick Edmonds tracks the latest industry developments.
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Four Reasons to be Hopeful about Newspapers in the Year Ahead

Fri, 12/19/2008 - 3:05pm

When Nieman Lab's Josh Benton interviewed me on Flip cam several weeks ago, he headlined the piece, "Rick Edmonds predicts a lot of coal in newspapers' stockings." Fair enough. Josh was asking...

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Doing the Math on <i>Detroit Free Press, News</i> Big Gamble

Tue, 12/16/2008 - 2:25pm

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Looking For a New Journalism Business Model? Try Cable

Fri, 12/12/2008 - 6:14pm

At the New York UBS Media Week meeting, I heard confirmation that newspapers are getting the worst of it right now (no surprise) but that magazines, broadcast networks and local television...

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Gannett, Scripps and Media General Make Their Case to Investors at UBS

Thu, 12/11/2008 - 6:32am

The "most disturbing thing" about newspapers right now is that they are "willing to diminish the product itself to protect the package." So said Rich Boehne, who just became CEO of E.W. Scripps six...

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SID says...

When buzzards are dying, who gets to circle around them?