Monthly Archives: October 2009

In which the continuing search for news business models takes stock of itself at Harvard, yielding a couple hundred tweets, a couple dozen sound bites, a couple good jokes, and a crying need to be single-mindedly focused on learning what audiences actually value.

Looking for business models? Mind the gaps

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In which Richard Rodriguez again links the withering of the SF Chronicle with the withering of San Francisco -- and in so doing points to why the NYT has good reasons to contract with others for metro news both there and in Chicago. (Go buy the November Harper's.)

Dead trees and dying cities

In which I hang with a variety of legends at a Tribune reunion in Greektown. As at most such events, you remember some of what you want to say, but hear mostly what others want to tell you. As at few such events, you also get to observe David Axelrod's Secret Service detail.

There were giants. . .no, there are giants.