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• 12.11.08
  Shirky’s thoughts on the fall of The Tribune Group act as a timely reminder of why understanding the structural failure of the newspaper industry remains key to its potential survival… General, Journalism | (4)

  If only because one of my more seminal, mid-life crisis moments arrived courtesy of the man - C Shirky/40th birthday/newspapers are like the record industry, etc - his thoughts on the fall of the Tribune Group are - as Jeff Jarvis points out - well worth a read.... http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/08/the-newspaper-indust.html Mr Shirky has been a constant companion almost ever since; his thoughts on 'geography' and the Internet's fundamentally different relationship to it - as opposed to those old, medieval circulation fiefdoms as deep-mined by newspapers for centuries - has under-pinned all too much of what we've tried to say here on OWAB and, ...

  Tagged: 4iP, backchat, Chicago Tribune, Clay Shirky, Jeff Jarvis, Newsquest, Northcliffe/DMGT, TrinityMirror, www.addiply.com
  
• 12.09.08
  Lo and behold, the words ‘perfect’ and ’storm’ cross a newspaper owner’s lips. The first King Canute to call for a towel? General, Journalism | (0)

  Again, thanks to Mr Monck for picking this up; it's the Tribune's tale of woe and Mr Zell's memo to his luckless employees... http://www.eandppub.com/2008/12/sam-zells-memo.html One or two thoughts immediately spring to mind; not least how pretty the HuffPost people must be sitting today with their newly-opened Chicago 'branch'... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chicago/ And sure enough, there's a nice pic of the Chicago Tribune building in the top right... But there was a line from Zell's own memo that is worth repeating. "So, how did we get here? It has been, to say the least, the perfect storm. A precipitous decline in revenue and a tough economy have coupled with ...

  Tagged: Adrian Monck, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Sam Zell
  

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