“The term ‘news desert’ has been a shorthand, but the real problem here and elsewhere is that this region lacked the number of journalists it needed to thoroughly inform the public.”
Lookout doesn’t want its local news sites to be a supplement or alternative to the local daily. They aim to be the news source of record in their communities, outgunning their shrunken newsprint rivals from Day 1.
Will America’s third-largest newspaper group sell as a single unit or a collection of smaller clusters? And what would lead someone to buy newspapers in 2014, anyway?
The troubled paper has a new (interim) publisher, whose experience is in the casino business. Is there a bigger plan at work, or is Aaron Kushner just lurching from idea to idea?
The company, including flagship papers in Los Angeles and Chicago, now stands on its own. Can it navigate the next stage of its life — potentially into a new owner?
Project Thunderdome is dead and DFM will soon put its newspapers on the auction block. Are the new rounds of investors who bought into newspapers over the past half-decade getting antsy?
Doctor, Ken. "The newsonomics of Digital First Media’s Thunderdome implosion (and coming sale)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 2 Apr. 2014. Web. 18 Apr. 2024.
APA
Doctor, K. (2014, Apr. 2). The newsonomics of Digital First Media’s Thunderdome implosion (and coming sale). Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/the-newsonomics-of-digital-first-medias-thunderdome-implosion-and-coming-sale/
Chicago
Doctor, Ken. "The newsonomics of Digital First Media’s Thunderdome implosion (and coming sale)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified April 2, 2014. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/the-newsonomics-of-digital-first-medias-thunderdome-implosion-and-coming-sale/.
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