Anyone have opinions on the proposition that the best way to fund local newspaper websites is for their sales people to sell Print+Web ad packages? My thinking is that most locals understand print ads, with web ads a "nice to have" but without any...
Will: I think this is an interesting development. I had a friend at our local NBC affiliate talking about this issue and what that used to mean in the TV world when you finally reached a point where you didn't have to carry your own camera. Do you...
One thing worth noting: Google executives have lately been talking about how the majority of small businesses are still not online. This is a huge opportunity for local newspapers, and one they've been trying to crack for years. But it's worth dou...
I think the issue is to invent local reporting, not to save it. I don't pretend to know everything out there, but I have never seen local reporting that supplies a product that give him what he wants to see.
"He wants to read local news stories d...