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Ken Doctor: Little-known 2011 “inventions” that will become mainstream in 2012
Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Here’s Lab columnist and Newsonomics author Ken Doctor, weighing in on what 2011...
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The newsonomics of the death and life of California news
Let’s look this week at the journalistic turmoil in the world’s eighth-largest economy: California, a.k.a. the Golden State (beta motto: “We get post-IPO Facebook capital gains taxes — you don’t”). The...
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Is “post-industrial journalism” a U.S.-only phenomenon, or are the lessons...
You may have already seen the new report from Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present.” It’s written by my friend Chris Anderson, Emily Bell,...
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The newsonomics of Tribune’s metro agony
Soon, the next act of the Tribune newspaper agonies will play out. That’s agonies, as in a Biblical passion play. The Tribune papers have endured a special kind of agony, the Hell of Zell, but really...
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The newsonomics of the Koch Brothers and the sales of U.S.’ top metros
It almost makes wary Tribune watchers pine for Rupert Murdoch. In what is shaping up to be the biggest sale of metro U.S. newspapers in history, with six of the top 50 newspapers about to change...
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The newsonomics of Jeff Bezos buying The Washington Post
It is a thunderbolt. If not tossed down from Mt. Olympus, it is thrown from Mt. Amazon, not far from Washington’s beatific Olympic Mountains. Jeff Bezos’s surprise buying of the Washington Post...
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The newsonomics of Digital First Media’s Thunderdome implosion (and coming sale)
Today, we’ll hear official word of the demise of Project Thunderdome, one of the news industry’s highest-profile experiments in centralized, digital-first, mobile-friendly, new-news-partner content...
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The newsonomics of life after newspapers go solo — and new intrigue in L.A.
RELATED ARTICLEThe newsonomics of the print orphanage — Tribune’s and Time Inc.’sFebruary 27, 2014RELATED ARTICLEKen Doctor: 10 takeaways from Gannett’s blockbuster announcementsAugust 5, 2014We’ll...
View ArticleWhat we know (and don’t know) about the plan to make San Diego’s daily a...
Editor’s note: In San Diego, a philanthropist is talking about buying up the local daily and turning its ownership into a nonprofit model. Local nonprofit site Voice of San Diego did this interview...
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The newsonomics of auctioning off Digital First’s newspapers (and California...
Could the sale of the Digital First Media properties lead to the U.S.’s first quasi-national newspaper company? RELATED ARTICLEThe newsonomics of Digital First Media’s Thunderdome implosion (and coming...
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Newsonomics: Tribune Publishing wraps its arms around San Diego — and all of...
Southern California, poking northward into Santa Barbara and stretching southward to the Mexican border, will soon become Tribune Territory. In a deal intended to be soon announced, Tribune Publishing...
View ArticleNewsonomics: The news world will miss Michael Ferro
On Friday afternoon, Tronc announced that its lead shareholder Merrick Media, led by just-resigned board chairman Michael Ferro, was selling its entire stake in the company. McCormick Media — managed...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Still another Tronc drama, as John Lynch re-enters the business
Tronc doesn’t do anything by the book. Even as much of the company’s turbulence looks to be clearing, new questions are emerging about who will next lead the big metro chain. Softbank and Apollo Global...
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