Death of Print

Do Kids Know How To Use An Encyclopedia?

Posted 03.16.2012

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This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Once upon a time, people used thick, heavy reference books to look ...

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Are We Suffering From eReader Fatigue?

| Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Ereaders, Nook, Video, Ereader Fatigue, Kindle, Ereader, Death of Print, Kobo, Death of the Book, Print Is Dead, Ebooks, Books News

By Holly Robinson for IndieReader.com Jocelyn Kelley loves the heft of a book in her hands and the physical act of turning pages. “Flipping the p...

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Rupert Murdoch Takes Over the Times

Tony Hendra | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Death of Print, Rupert Murdoch, New York Times, The Final Edition, Comedy News
Tony Hendra

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The Next Big Media Battle: Publishers vs. Ad Agencies

Kirk Cheyfitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marketing Trends, Newspapers, Time Inc., Meredith, Death of Print, Hearst Magazines, Jack Griffin, Wendy Riches, Media, Omnicom Group Inc., MedCity News, Matthew Petersen, Newspaper Industry, Wpp, Publicis, Advertising, Interpublic Group, Marketing, New Media, Sacramento Press, Media News
Kirk Cheyfitz

The media business has been in chaos for a decade, and there's more coming.

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Newspaper Pay Walls: A History Littered with Disaster Says HuffPo CEO

Tom Johansmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Gawker Media, Aol, Gawker, Business Insider, Eric Hippeau, Death of Print, Rupert Murdoch, Henry Blodget, Death of Newspapers, Media, Wsj, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newspaper Industry, Business News
Tom Johansmeyer

ntil time passes and we can arrive at an answer, the debate will continue over whether an ad-driven business without a subscription component can create considerable value.

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Death of Print? Not in North Korea!

Tom Johansmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kcna, Kindle, Rupert Murdoch, Death of Print, Media, Print-Media, Korea, Magazines, North Korea, Ipad, Digital Media, World News
Tom Johansmeyer

If you thought circulation dives and ad revenue anguish were problems across the print media industry, you clearly haven't looked at the entire market. Print is alive and well in North Korea.

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Ex-Google, Bing Engineers To Build 'Newspaper Of The Future'

techcrunch.com | Robin Wauters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper of the Future, Apollo News, Apollo, Hawthorne Labs, Technology News

Today, [Hawthorne Labs] released their first application, dubbed APOLLO, for the iPad [...]. Their lofty ambition is to become the number one daily de...

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Proof: Print Is Not Dead!

Zondra Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death of Print, Media News, Chicago News
Zondra Hughes

A melting pot of journos, bloggers, broadcasters and--gasp! even those pampered publicists -- converged on recently to celebrate the relaunch of Monarch Magazine.

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The Neuron, the Ant, and the Novel

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Attention-Span-Media, Gaia, Death-of-Print, James-Lovelock, Death of Publishing, Creative Expression, Healthy Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

if we don't appreciate (read protect and remunerate) creative folks, they are likely to leave the collective and either start their own or huddle, disgruntled and resentful, on the outskirts of ours.

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The Beginning of the End... of Paper Books

Andrew Zack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Macmillan, Ebook, Kindle, Book Publishers, Ipad, Books, Death of Print, Books News
Andrew Zack

If you aren't actually in publishing, don't own an eBook reader, and haven't tried to buy a book published by Macmillan from Amazon this week, you likely weren't aware that war had broken out.

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Boston Globe's Future Unclear As Sale Deadline Passes

nytimes.com | RICHARD PEREZ-PENA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Newspapers, Boston Globe, Old Media Death Watch, Death of Print, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Platinum Equity, Newspaper Industry, Old Media, Media News

Prospective buyers of The Boston Globe faced a Friday deadline for submitting firm bids, but it remained unclear what would happen next -- or even whe...

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Is Journalism Going Through Its Own Reformation?

Alexander Howard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Old Media vs. New Media, Fcc, Ftc, Rupert Murdoch, Death of Print, New Media, Steven Waldman, Death of Newspapers, Journalism, Arianna Huffington, Media News
Alexander Howard

The traditional "high priests of journalism" -- newspaper and magazine editors -- controlled what was covered. No more, or at least not in online news.

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Life After Print: URB Magazine 2.0

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Magazi, Print Journalism, Music Business, Print, Web, Death of Print, Websites, Death of Newspapers, Media, Music, Hip-Hop, Paper, Print Media, Web 2.0, Social Media, Pop Music, Hip Hop, New Media, Media News, Music Industry, Web Video, Media News
Raymond Leon Roker

While many have quickly lamented URB's print hiatus or reminisced about our long legacy, there is also an unfortunate feeding frenzy on even the hint of print's presumed, imminent demise.

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Please Stop Whining About The "Death Of Journalism"

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Media, Death of Newspapers, Media, Death of Print, Print Journalism, Internet Journalism, Media News
Henry Blodget

The Internet is doing to the news business the same thing it has done to dozens of other industries: disrupting it. As always, this disruption is painful, but it's not necessarily bad.

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Jason Linkins

Apple Tablet Triumphalism Unleashed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Print Journalism, Apple, Media Criticism, Death of Print, Apple Tablet, Eat the Press, Media News

As the first few days of 2010 unfold, the media world is heatedly debating whether or not the forthcoming Apple iSlate will finally "save journalism."...

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Ask a Panicked Print Media Executive

Steve Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Print Media, Social Media, Unemployment, Humor, Satire, Death of Print, New Media, Death of Newspapers, Media, Facebook, Ereaders, Comedy News
Steve Ross

I used to eat at Michaels, front of the room, with the likes of Joan Didion and David Brooks. Now I'm packing peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and shudder every time the phone rings.

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Are Obituaries Obsolete?

Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Obituaries, Michael Jackson, Obituary, Newspapers, Michael Jackson Death, Death-of-Print, Ted Kennedy, Death, Healthy Living News
Anna Jane Grossman

I don't need to wait until the morning papers to get the full life stories of dead luminaries. In fact, I don't even need to wait until they are dead.

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Dead Media? Not So Fast, Bub

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Internet, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, Jon & Kate, Internet Pundits, Death of Magazines, Media News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

You go to an airport and all you see is magazines. Even the books look like magazines. There are at least seven separate magazines still interested in Jon and Kate. Dead? Magazines? Who says so? The Internet.

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Confessions Of A Roller-Coaster Addict

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media, Television, Small Business, Television Ratings, Intrnet, Start-Ups, Death of Print, Roller Coasters, Death of Newspapers, Media News
Steve Rosenbaum

The roller-coaster requires thinking that is more about innovation than protecting your core audience. It's about acknowledging a fundamental change in media makers and consumers.

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Culture Clash

Kevin Naff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Newspapers, Web Sites, Reuters, Online, Death of Print, Online Journalism, Baltimore Sun, Media News
Kevin Naff

Launching a major newspaper web site in 1996 offered hints of the trouble to come.

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Thanks The New Republic!

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Print Media, Consumerism, Publishing, Print Journalism, Publishing Industry, Death of Print, The New Republic, Consumer Spending, The-New-Republic, Media News
Amitai Etzioni

I am grateful to The New Republic for providing the space for long essays on complex subjects.

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Sonia's Wiki Wonder

Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Print Media, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Barack Obama Supreme Court Pick, Newspapers, Print Journalism, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Death of Print, Obama Supreme Court, Obama, Online News, Sotomayor Supreme Court, Obama Supreme Court Pick, Obama Picks Sotomayor, Media News
Marty Kaplan

Seconds after the networks say that it's Sotomayor, her Wikipedia entry is updated. The newspapers in my driveway can't do that; that's why on-paper distribution is dying.

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On the Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor

Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Patrick Leahy

Having a Supreme Court that better reflects the diversity of America helps ensure that we keep faith with the words over the entrance of the Supreme Court: "Equal justice under law."

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How Media Will Pay for Poor Warning on Financial Collapse

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Newspapers, Media, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, Financial Media, Media News
Greg Mitchell

The media miss stories all the time, always have, always will. But to miss a story of this enormity, with consequences that will echo for decades, only adds weight to the warnings of doom for the "old" media.

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Technology, Not War, Is the Solution to Publishing

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Non-Profit Foundations, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Publishing, Search Engines, Newspaper Industry, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, News, Online News, Media News
Penny Herscher

The global publishing giants have declared war on the new technology generation of content distributors -- but they have lost sight of what consumers value and how they want to get to the value.

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