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December 17, 2008 09:40 AM UTC
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Maybe all electronic is inevitable, but I don’t have to like it. You can’t carry a paper to lunch or on the bus, and please don’t tell me take a laptop. Battery issues, data access issues, outdoor brightness issues, hard to navigate issues.
I do understand that the print newspaper may be a dodo bird in waiting. But I don’t have to like the alternatives.
Oh yeah, one thing they need to do is make that currently pay for service of viewing a paper as if it IS the paper free. Right now, to read a paper online you have to go to an article and backup to the home page when done. That alternative service lets a person move along from the most important stories through the paper.
Amazon’s new electronic reading device is pretty darn cool.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ…
And why should one company then have a lock on the e-print business and we have to pay for it? And it’s still not the same thing, being able to scan huge pages in a second and decide to move on or read something that catches one’s eye.
Whatever happened to that e-paper which could be rolled up and changed with a simple plug in for update?
An interesting business model. Investigative journalism may not be dead after all:
http://spot.us/pages/about
“Through Spot.Us the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories.”
just think….
All those idle presses and idle pressmen (union I might ad).
All those idle presses and the debt service still required to be covered.
Solution is to move to a free paper model, maybe a heavy electronic angle too. People still need their coupons, sports page details, business page details, obits, editorials, etc.
I say watch for Anschutz, Singleton could be his new biatch.
Not just for the Rocky, but for the industry as a whole. Maybe it’s just a generational thing, but it would never even occur to me actually subscribe to a daily newspaper. I’m a total news junkie, but I’d much rather get it online. It’s more up-to-the-minute, and more convenient for me. No laptop or Internet connection handy? Just pull up the browser on my Blackberry.
That having been said, I almost never read westword online. When a new issue comes out, I always read it at the bar with a cocktail in hand. If they went all-digital, I don’t think I’d read it nearly as much, it just wouldn’t be the same experience.
Maybe find a way to make the online version more profitable, to subsidize losses in the print/home delivery area?
1. Create newspaper website
2. ????
3. Profit!
It delivers about $7 million to the Rocky. So having paper copies is more profitable than not having paper copies.
The problem is that the newsroom costs $22 million to run, so that the paper copy sales don’t deliver enough revenue to run the newsroom by itself.
It is also worth noting that home delivery subscription costs to customers basically cover the paper boy and the newsprint only. Advertising is the source of the profit.
…often give more depth to the up-to-the-minute stories on the internet. (Sometimes it’s the other way around, granted.)
With newspapers, I can work a priority reading system. Read the things I am most concerned about first, go back for a second and a third reading if I want to later in the day.
I know this is really, really hard for some folks, especially those half my age, but NOT EVERYONE HAS OR WANTS A BLACKBERRY! For the technophobe they can buy a paper for fifty cents or invest $200 and pay $70/mo? and to read on a tiny screen? Not even in the ballpark, my friend.
Do you realize that we can read newspapers 150 years old? Can anyone honestly claim that an electronic device will be around to read our cultural history in newspapers in 150 years?
Or Twittered a funeral?
My worry is that the old fuddy-duddies, like many of us and the management at the papers is several generations behind where we’re going.
1. Yes some of us like having a physical paper. Too bad – that’s gone.
2. Hitting it via the browser. That’s significant today and will remain important. But it is not the key avenue.
2b. And the way the papers use the browser sucks. It’s not a sheet of paper – how you can present the info via a browser can go so far beyond paper.
3. The kindle & similiar devices are probably going to become important. What’s key on them for news, ads, etc will be pushing stuff up as it occurs, where I am, mode I have set, etc.
4. But the biggie, and I don’t think any paper is on this yet, is cell phones. You want to reach my daughters (who are the key demographic age for ads) – it’s via cell phones. And yes, they will read their news that way too.
In addition you have to make the news more entertaining and put it in short concise bits with links for more on different parts. That’s how younger people want everything (I blame MTV) and that’s what you need on a cell phone screen.
Here’s hoping we keep paid reporters somehow…
A couple years ago “e-paper” was almost ready for the marketplace…… How often have we heard similar?
It’s a super thin sheet of plastic that can be rolled and/or folded, IIRC. You plug it in to the appropriate thingy and all the darker print molecules realign themselves to update the news. Or whatever.
An observation: My 17 year old niece communicates entirely by cell, text, or Face Book. No email now.
This is the guy who’s ramping up to start outsourcing reporting to Bangalore, and no, I’m not making that up: http://www.scholarsandrogues.c…
any big picture editorial comments
You could reduce the number of issues printed, sell from news stands and by premium priced home delivery subscription, and make content over the Internet, with some content on a subscriber only basis.
In this model, the Post would get the 50% share of the DNA, while the Rocky itself would be sold separately.
To reduce newroom, layout and printing costs, the Rocky might consider moving from being a full service provider of national and world news, to selling strictly its original reporting, primarily of local matters, a bit like the Denver Business Journal or Westword, and might even consider getting out of the all purpose classified ads business.
Indeed, the Rocky might find that it is an attractive niche for legal ads between full cost Denver Post ads, and ads that truly reach almost no one in obscure papers like the Statesman.
A merger with the Aurora Sentinel might also make sense.
…and gave up after about a year. If the upper demographic base of NYT readership wasn’t willing to pay, who would?
But your other ideas are intriguing. Lots of room for creativity.