Economist.com: Eight questions for Jacob Weisberg
Monday, 13 July 2009, 15:48
Slate's Jacob Weisberg: "I think web-only journalism is fundamentally viable because it doesn't have the huge fixed costs of print—ink, paper, binding, postage, etc. The marginal cost of distribution is zero. Most of what we spend at the Slate Group goes into creating original content. I think web advertising may well end up supporting big newsrooms if they can escape some of their legacy costs. The test I'd most like to see is of a well-financed, for-profit, web-only "newspaper" with no printed version. The problem is that the leading news organisations have a stake in web-only newspapers not working because they will accelerate the decline of the large, if faltering businesses that revolve around print."
New York Times: You Can’t Sell News by the Slice
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 18:18
Michael Kinsley: "Just a few years ago, there was no sweeter perch in American capitalism than ownership of the only newspaper in town. Now, every English-language newspaper is in direct competition with every other. Millions of Americans get their news online from The Guardian, which is published in London. This competition, and not some kind of petulance or laziness or addled philosophy, is what keeps readers from shelling out for news."
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 16:53
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"Sate, the online news and opinion magazine owned by The Washington Post Co plans to join a bustling business news market with an analysis and commentary site expected to launch this summer."
