New York Times: How Industries Survive Change
Sunday, 16 November 2008, 12:29
"'You have to be willing to walk away from the things that have made you great,' says Scott D. Anthony, president of Innosight, which consults with companies (including newspapers and automotive businesses) on how to foster a culture of innovation. He argues that the incumbents in the newspaper industry were caught sleeping during the initial meteoric growth period of Web sites like Wikipedia because the avenue for innovation — letting crowds rather than experts aggregate and filter data — seemed so antithetical to what newspapers did well."
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 16:20
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Dan Gillmor takes on the "misguided charge that search engines are somehow pirating newspapers’ work" and the criticism that most blogging is not journalism: "So what? Neither is most writing on paper, most photography, most video or most anything else."
Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 17:57
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‘[When Press Gaztte closed] it turns out that the magazine’s website, at 110,000 unique users a month, was much more popular than the printed version which only managed 4,639 in sales. Of course, all the effort went into the printed title." err…
Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 23:20
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Derek Willis: "We cannot goad or guilt companies like Google into saving journalism when there is much about our own processes that we need to improve."
