The death of news outlets has been a long time coming - not just business models

; Date: Thu Jan 24 2019

Tags: Online News »»»» Website Business Models

Today layoffs at several prominent news organizations caused the news industry to cry wolf about business models and how the Internet was a big threat to the traditional news organization business model. In the thick of this debate came Jeremy Littau with a series of twitter postings explaining his take on what really happening. According to Littau the issue started in the 1980's with a consolidation of news organizations and hedge fund managers starting to strip newspapers of value.

Earlier piece: Chris Hayes: Online news business is in crisis due to lack of a viable business model

Who-owns-what at Gannett (via Columbia Journalism Review): (www.cjr.org) https://www.cjr.org/resources/?c=gannett

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(davidherron.com) David Herron : David Herron is a writer and software engineer focusing on the wise use of technology. He is especially interested in clean energy technologies like solar power, wind power, and electric cars. David worked for nearly 30 years in Silicon Valley on software ranging from electronic mail systems, to video streaming, to the Java programming language, and has published several books on Node.js programming and electric vehicles.
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