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In ten years newspapers will be a quarter of what they are now, says Blodget
I can never resist a bit of doomsaying from Silicon Alley Insider's Henry Blodget. This time he's arguing that within ten years newspaper circulation and advertising revenue will be a quarter what it is now. Why? Because: 1. As circulations and ad revenue continue to fall, print economies-of-scale will reverse, cutting further into already shrinking print margins.
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First, the bad news
Nothing like a bit of Silicon Alley Insider gloom for a Monday morning. So here's a piece about US newspapers experiencing their worst drop in paid advertising revenue for 50 years. It serves as a reasonable opener to Eric Alterman's excellent essay in The New Yorker: Out of Print: The death and life of the American newspaper.
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Traffic’s up, where’s the revenue?
Nytimes.com and the Financial Times have both picked up traffic to their sites since dropping their paywalls but there hasn't been a corresponding rise in ad revenue, according to Silicon Alley Insider. A couple of interesting comments on the SAI piece.
Paywall stays at WSJ
Rupert Murdoch says the part-paywall will remain at the WSJ. "The really specialized (material) giving the greatest insights, that will still be a subscription service," he said at Davos.
Newspaper closures are inevitable, says US media analyst