The Globe is the latest paper trying to “once and for all break the stubborn rhythms of a print operation, allowing us to unabashedly pursue digital subscriptions.”
The quest for scale, driven by the distribution power of a few enormous technology platforms, is killing the business case for local news. Will anything take its place?
“Once the Internet got in the car — and the car is half of where all listening is — it was going to dramatically change not only the way people listened to audio, but the way it was created, organized and delivered.”
“At other accelerators it’s: Hit a home run or you’re dead to us. Matter is trying to find this middle ground, being things that are mission-oriented, and something that can actually scale.”
In less than two years of ownership, Aaron Kushner has changed strategies like changing lanes. A new round of cost cutting suggests the route to sustainability is still uncertain.
Two-year-old startup GoLocal24 is expanding from its New England base across the continent. Will business-driven for-profits like it fill the void of local news in ways nonprofit outlets can’t?
Doctor, Ken. "The newsonomics of the November shuffle, from Forbes to Freedom and Couric to Stelter." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 27 Nov. 2013. Web. 17 Apr. 2024.
APA
Doctor, K. (2013, Nov. 27). The newsonomics of the November shuffle, from Forbes to Freedom and Couric to Stelter. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 17, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/11/the-newsonomics-of-the-november-shuffle-from-forbes-to-freedom-and-couric-to-stelter/
Chicago
Doctor, Ken. "The newsonomics of the November shuffle, from Forbes to Freedom and Couric to Stelter." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 27, 2013. Accessed April 17, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/11/the-newsonomics-of-the-november-shuffle-from-forbes-to-freedom-and-couric-to-stelter/.
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