Can AOL and Yahoo Save the News?

As newspapers continue to struggle, traditional news-aggregation sites like AOL and Yahoo are planning to produce more original content. Are they the future of journalism? Over the past several months, as many of the traditional pillars of journalism have begun to show severe economic strain, there are new signs of a growing future for original [...]

The Upside of the Seattle Paper's End

The Hearst Corp. announced today that it will be the first major media company to convert a metropolitan daily newspaper into a website, and end it’s run as a printed newspaper. When Hearst follows through on its promise to shut down the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Tuesday, it will shift to an online-only news business. This [...]

News Inc.? The Second Coming of Newspapers

Today’s collapse of the Rocky Mountain News has prompted the usual hysterics and hand-wringing over the death of print—but people need to get over the notion that quality news only comes on paper. OK, so now it has begun. The Rocky Mountain News, Denver’s 150-year-old daily newspaper, is shutting its doors tomorrow. I fear this [...]

How Can Newspapers Survive?

Newspapers are still the best-staffed news organizations and remain journalism’s brightest hope—if they can only break their addiction to print. It’s one of my favorite lines in Citizen Kane, the 1941 classic about a newspaper publisher. Kane is responding to his top financial advisor who just pointed out that Kane’s newspaper empire is losing a [...]