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Link wrap: Seattle PI, doom, gloom etc

By Julie Starr | Published: March 29, 2009

PaidContent has an early follow-up on how the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is doing since it ditched print and went web-only. The writer suggests it could be struggling to find enough content after cutting its staff by 80 per cent.

Posted in Business Models, Journalism, Newspapers | Also tagged layoffs, Newspapers, web-only | Leave a comment

With a newspaper gone, who’s the watchdog and where do advertisers go?

By Julie Starr | Published: March 23, 2009

In response to handwringing over who will keep local government honest should the local newspaper fall over, Seamus McCauley of Virtual Economics suggests one way to measure just how effective the newspaper's been as a watchdog:

Posted in Journalism, Newspapers | Also tagged councils, economics, watchdog | 2 Comments

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This is the blog of Julie Starr. I write about the news business and consult on newsroom integration and change projects.

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* Newsroom change management and web-and-print development for Fairfax Media NZ.

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