Cue up the Survivor theme song. And they come out swingin’: Def Leppard got half the equation right. Times are hard, people want to be entertained, and they want a lot of value for their money. So the band is touring with both Poison and Cheap Trick (the latter slumming for the summer, apparen...

sxc.hu I’ve lost count of the number of newspapers which have gone under since the beginning of the year. We’re not even through the first quarter of the year and yet, many (except those in the business who are desperately staying on top of every single death)  have simply stopped count...

Having failed for 15 years to build a compelling business model (because it looked at the whole thing backwards) newspapers are now threatening to commit seppuku unless we are all forced to grovel at their feet and pay them for their drivel. News of this final insult comes in an LA Times column from...

Seth Godin is the only person who can get me to open an email entitled “Time to Start a Newspaper� in what is being considered the swan song days of chopping down trees and delivering them to people. Seriously, the paper news industry is truly coming to an end.  At least in its current form.  ...

Mark Cuban wrote an interesting piece about pro sports teams forming a company that would essentially provide beat writers that would cover local sports teams in exchange for a certain number of pages being dedicated to pro sports in each paper.  Newspapers would maintain editorial control, but the...

Today’s NYT has a good piece on new models that are evolving from the cutbacks at newspapers.  Today’s focus: investigative journalism. Tells the story of how the cuts at local newspapers led indirectly to the formation of VoiceofSanDiego.org, a great not for profit news organization fo...

Taking a cue from Rory Satran's post A Case for Media Integration, Steve Yelvington adds his own observations on what he believes are the "perils of newsroom integration." Satran's analysis highlights such issues as newsroom restructuring and the loss of staff, positioning "print-hardened" top edito...