Category Archives: Tribune Company

More on aggregators, agencies, and newspapers

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Writing for the Baltimore Sun, Jay Hancock weighs in to this weekend’s debate in the blogosphere about Sam Zell and Google: if Zell’s aim is to change newspapers’ business model rather than their content, he might be on to something. The problem isn’t the journalism; soaring Web readership proves that. The problem is getting paid for it [...]

Newspapers’ ‘frenemy’ Google, the debate continues

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Google maybe making peace with the wires, but America’s latest newspaper mogul is not a fan. The new owner of Tribune newspapers, Chicago property magnate Sam Zell, reignited the old Google-as-kleptomaniac topos when he told students at Stanford University: “We have a situation today where effectively the content is being paid for by the newspapers [...]