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After finding success — and a Pulitzer Prize — in Santa Cruz, Lookout aims to replicate its model in Oregon. “All of these playbooks are at least partially written. You sometimes hear people say, ‘Nobody’s figured it out yet.’ But this is all about execution.”
“You need Google to stay in this. Otherwise, it devastates the entire industry.”
“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.”
We don’t wake up each morning to compete with a print daily, but rather to run our own local news and community model. That’s the key.
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.
“Engineering now is the second largest functional area at the New York Times, only behind journalism, and the largest function by far on the business side.”
The hedge fund Chatham Asset Management reeled in its prize, as expected. But now what does it want to do with it?
But Alden Global Capital would be happy to lend a hand. Plus: When a standstill isn’t really a standstill.
Tribune and McClatchy are both approaching critical deadlines that could lead to mergers, divisions — or even the first big nonprofit newspaper chain in the United States.
A giant potential audience isn’t good enough on its own anymore: “It’s time to re-examine all of our relationships with the big platforms.”