Archive for April 17, 2008

NY Times shows the newspaper industry is in trouble

Posted by pat on April 17, 2008. 5 comments.

Let this sink in for a minute: The New York Times Company, the parent of The New York Times, posted a $335,000 loss in the first quarter — one of the worst periods the company and the newspaper industry have seen — falling far short of both analysts’ expectations and its $23.9 million profit in [...]

A blogging assignment for all journalists

Posted by pat on April 17, 2008. 3 comments.

I’m convinced that most journalists don’t really understand blogs or the power blogs have. So, it’s time for all journalists to start understanding blogs. Yes, it would be great if all journalists experimented with blogging and blogging software, but that is overkill in some ways and just unreasonable given the reality on the ground (we’ll [...]