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Local News Works When Cost Structure Isn't Screwed Up
- But it’s also because newspapers were an oligopoly, and they lose that oligopoly online. Newspapers are, yes, a content business, but they were also a light manufacturing business, and it was the replacement of light manufacturing and trucking with bits that removed the barrier to entry and unbundled their attention.
from A Deeper Dive Into What Really Damaged Newspapers - A Media Operator by Jacob Cohen Donnelly
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- The economy is interconnected. There are a lot of reasons newspapers have died off. Some were out of their control. I imagine a future where there are plenty of local publications that serve their communities with smart reporting, structured data sets around important issues and great ad products for marketers.
from A Deeper Dive Into What Really Damaged Newspapers - A Media Operator by Jacob Cohen Donnelly
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A Deeper Dive Into What Really Damaged Newspapers - A Media Operator
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