[A little over one year ago, our friend Martin Langeveld made a series of predictions about what 2009 would bring for the news business — in particular the newspaper business. I even wrote about them at the time and offered up a few counter-predictions. Here's Martin's rundown of how he fared. Up next, we'll post [...]

Our colleagues over at the Nieman narrative program have posted the latest edition of their Digest, and it’s got a connection to the kind of stuff we write about here. They look at how two recently closed newspapers, the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle P-I, memorialized themselves through video.
You can see the videos [...]

As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s fate continues to hang in the balance, Steven Swartz (CEO of P-I owner Hearst) and Lincoln Millstein (Hearst’s Senior VP-Digital) have lunch:
Millstein: Steve, we need to make up our minds about the P-I.  The 60-day clock we put them on stopped three days ago.
Swartz: Yes, I’m sorry — I’ve been [...]

Anybody got $114 billion?
That’s what it might cost to create an endowment large enough to sustain every American newspaper in perpetuity as non-profit organizations. But don’t take that figure too seriously, please. It’s just a thought experiment prompted by this week’s chatter about non-profit journalism. I’ll explain.
David Swensen, the acclaimed chief investment officer at Yale, [...]

It’s instructive to look at how two organizations covered an event sponsored by a Seattle City Council member yesterday on the future of newspapers (yes, newspapers).
Aside from the story itself, which is fascinating, the way the two organizations — a daily newspaper in Seattle that’s at the center of the story it’s covering, and a [...]

Consensus: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is unlikely to find a buyer within 60 days — make that 57 days — the deadline set on Friday by its publisher, the Hearst Corporation. That means the most populous city in the Northwest will be left with just one daily newspaper, The Seattle Times, which is itself in poor [...]