Comments on: The News Innovator’s Dilemma

By: Alex Jones

Alex Jones — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:31:16 +0000

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By: Alex Jones

Alex Jones — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:31:16 +0000

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By: Alex Jones

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By: Microsoft, Google, the Innovator’s Dilemma and the Future of Search & Web Ads | The Technology Liberation Front

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:23:25 +0000

[...] Great Firms to Fail. (Read chapter one here and Tim Lee’s recent discussion of the book here.) [...]

By: Breaking The News | Tropophilia

Breaking The News | Tropophilia — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:02:41 +0000

[...] it. These companies are weighed down by expensive capital investments and corporate organigrams that cater to printing on dead trees. The evolution to lightweight, nimble online news will be painful, especially since online [...]

By: Jarred

Jarred — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:44:53 +0000

The Christian Science Monitor is going all digital, save for a weekly magazine that will be printed and circulated, in April 2009.

By: The Death Of Online Advertising Is Greatly Exaggerated By Techdirt | Backtalk Media Blog

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:35:55 +0000

[...] if anyone, is to blame for the precipitous decline of the newspaper business. My sympathies are with the pessimists: in principle, there are a lot of things newspapers could have done to better manage the transition [...]

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:23:48 +0000

Very insightful article. Note it engages in actual thought about the complexities of the free market, where everyone pursuing rational self-interest in the short-term can lead to problematic results in the long-term.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:23:54 +0000

Interesting look at this issue. One thing I'd question is where you say, "they have to make a certain amount of revenue per unit of output" I don't think that's true. They have to make a certain amount of revenue despite the number of units of output, plus a certain amount of revenue per unit of output. This fact makes the business even more difficult than as stated in the article.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:21:36 +0000

Not newspapers, but US News & World Report is going all digital, as is PC Magazine.

By: Rottin' in Denmark

Rottin' in Denmark — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:11:44 +0000

Maybe it's not fair to excoriate the 10-years-ago them, but isn't it a little fair to do so now? Does anyone really believe that newspapers will exist in their current form in 10 or 15 or 20 years? I keep waiting for one newspaper in the country to try something drastic--shutting down all their paper infrastructure and moving online, for example.

True, no one could have predicted craiglist or YouTube or 538.com. But we can certainly see them now. If newspapers can't adapt now, when?

By: Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » The web is now a disruptive technology

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:49:37 +0000

[...] thinking out loud about the future of publishing online, especially where the news was concerned. Others are having a similar conversation: Internet news is a classic disruptive technology. At its outset, it was simple, dirt cheap, and in [...]

By: The Technology Liberation Front

The Technology Liberation Front — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:53:49 +0000

[...] couple of quick follow-ups to my last post: first, a commenter points out that Career Builder is an example of a successful spin-off from a [...]

By: crack

crack — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:21:43 +0000

Actually, CareerBuilder.com was just such an attempt. It's relatively successful.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:30:55 +0000

Organizations find it hard to change, and people find it hard to change organizations. It's usually much easier (and rewarding) for visionaries to find funding for new endeavors outside established organizations than within them, where they have to fight not just the competition, but the organization they're trying to help.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:11:11 +0000

Here's how the NYT could have turned the corner...

http://bit.ly/RHQ4

Dave