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Ken DoctorSeptember 25, 2014

The newsonomics of auctioning off Digital First’s newspapers (and California schemin’)

More than 200 newspapers are up for sale — as one group, in clusters, or one by one. Where they go could have a big impact on how the industry will look in the coming years.

Ken DoctorNovember 27, 2013

The newsonomics of the November shuffle, from Forbes to Freedom and Couric to Stelter

Everybody’s making moves this month. Together, they tell us about what news will look like in 2014.

Ken DoctorJune 27, 2013

The newsonomics of Advance’s advancing strategy and its Achilles’ heel

Portland’s Oregonian is up next in the newspaper chain’s cut-print-days-and-newsroom-staff strategy. But does it make sense — and can its leaders execute the plan?

Press Publish 6: Rick Edmonds of Poynter on paywalls, print days, and the economics of newspapers

The newspaper business analyst talks about what revenue strategies are showing signs of life and whether the paywall model works for everyone. Joshua Benton

Adrienne LaFranceSeptember 7, 2012

Why does Project Thunderdome have to be in New York City?

One of the newspaper companies that Digital First manages is bankrupt, but editor Jim Brady says it still makes sense to expand staff in Manhattan.

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. Martin Langeveld

Adrienne LaFranceJuly 31, 2012

Still without a team in place, Project Thunderdome gets a surprise test drive

Digital First’s new central command is just beginning to take shape, but its nascent team has already handled its first big story: the shootings in Aurora, Colorado.

Martin LangeveldJanuary 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. Martin Langeveld

Mark CoddingtonDecember 9, 2011

This Week in Review: Institutions and news innovation, and papers’ paywall experiments roll on

Plus: A legal test of ‘Are bloggers journalists?’, Facebook’s Timeline and Subscribe, and the rest of the week’s future-of-news reading.

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