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Martin Langeveld spent 30 years in the daily newspaper business, 13 as a publisher, working for a variety of New England papers. He is now a freelance marketing and strategic planning consultant based in Vernon, Vt. Email: newsafternewspapers@gmail.com

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January 6, 2015

Why aren’t more newspapers cutting the number of days they print each week?

“Every publisher who reads the tea leaves knows the seven-day print model is doomed. Heck, every reader looking at a flimsy Monday or Tuesday paper knows it. Why not take the plunge now, strategically, rather than sometime down the road, out of desperation, when it’s too late?”

Understanding the billionaire media gambles

“No grand strategy, no new business models for news will emerge from Omaha. Ultimately, these papers will be closed or sold.”

The coming death of seven-day publication

“Ultimately, consolidation is just a mop-up strategy — one that simply squeezes out the final remaining profits before the lights are turned out.”

Martin Langeveld: Journal Register’s bankruptcy is strategic, all right — but for whom?

Instead of a wave of consolidation, the former newspaper publisher argues, JRC’s bankruptcy could be a way for the newspaper industry’s biggest outside investor to continue to exit it.

January 17, 2012

NewsRight’s potential: New content packages, niche audiences, and revenue

Look past Righthaven-related fears, Martin Langeveld argues, and you’ll see the possibilities NewsRight might afford in enabling and automating new ways of redistributing content.

Martin Langeveld: A look back at my 2011 predictions, along with a fresh batch for 2012

Keeping Martin Honest: the 2012 edition.

Amazon enters the tablet battle: It’s all about the shopping

What the aggressively-priced Kindle Fire will mean for news publishers.

A call for consolidation: Dean Singleton on John Paton, collective action, and the next waves of newspaper cutbacks

“I don’t think there’s any newspaper company in America that won’t have fewer people a year from now than they have today, and fewer still in two to three years.”

Tackable, BANG collaborate on a location-based digital newspaper

Is TapIn BayArea a new prototype for the news industry, reclaiming engagement with local readers on the iPad?

Alden Global Capital drops a shoe: Is the Journal Register acquisition prelude to more consolidation?

Alden owns stakes in many of the newspaper industry’s biggest companies. Are its stakes in JRC and MediaNews Group the building blocks for assembling a newspaper conglomerate?

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