Well-intentioned antitrust actions by the Department of Justice are likely to deliver two newspapers to a company with a record of milking papers for profit through deep cutbacks.
As single-minded, profit-driven management drives down the local news business, where is its moral center — the one that long rested, if sometimes uncomfortably, alongside the demands of running a successful business?
The Times wants to double its digital revenue by 2020. To accomplish that will require better serving of its best customers — and better conversion of occasional readers into Times addicts.
Call it a platform, call it a content management system, call it an “umbrella of interconnected services” — the set of tools the Post has built for itself is now being licensed to other publishers, who might find it more useful than their alternatives.
We know what continued ownership by Tribune Publishing looks like for the Los Angeles Times: cuts, cuts, and more cuts. A private, local owner would offer a better chance for sustainable success.
Digital subscribers are proving to be the bedrock of the Times’ business model going forward. How much more room is there for growth — and at what price points?
Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: 10 numbers on The New York Times’ 1 million digital-subscriber milestone." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 6 Aug. 2015. Web. 14 May. 2024.
APA
Doctor, K. (2015, Aug. 6). Newsonomics: 10 numbers on The New York Times’ 1 million digital-subscriber milestone. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 14, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/08/newsonomics-10-numbers-on-the-new-york-times-1-million-digital-subscriber-milestone/
Chicago
Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: 10 numbers on The New York Times’ 1 million digital-subscriber milestone." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 6, 2015. Accessed May 14, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/08/newsonomics-10-numbers-on-the-new-york-times-1-million-digital-subscriber-milestone/.
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