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Articles tagged disruption (9)
February 28, 2013
February 28, 2013
The Harvard Business School professor and David Skok discuss how news companies should respond to the Internet.
January 17, 2013
In this excerpt from his new book Rebuilding the News, he uses the Philadelphia media ecosystem as a lens on what’s happened to local journalism since 2000.
December 19, 2012
“The big, transformative changes in the industry — the shifts in the habits of readers and advertisers — happened years ago, and since then a kind of uneasy stability has taken hold.”
October 18, 2012
What’s the right way to respond when technology disrupts the position of an established business? The Harvard Business School professor has lessons for the news business from other industries.
June 12, 2012
The liberal blogosphere isn’t what it used to be, becoming both more institutionalized and more atomized.
May 7, 2012
The game designer and thinker says there are a number of parallels between the disruptions facing both industries.
January 27, 2012
The aggregators of today will be the original reporters of tomorrow — it’s how disruption happens.
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