Comments on: How Not to Save Newspapers: A Facebook Event

By: What Happens When Your Local Paper Goes Online-Only? It Loses Most of Its Staff

What Happens When Your Local Paper Goes Online-Only? It Loses Most of Its Staff — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:18:18 +0000

[...] been asking Mark Josephson that question for months, and now he has an answer: Josephson, the CEO of local news platform Outside.in, figures the local, [...]

By: What Happens When Your Local Paper Goes Online-Only? It Loses Most of Its Staff [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:13:11 +0000

[...] been asking Mark Josephson that question for months, and now he has an answer: Josephson, the CEO of local news platform Outside.in, figures the local, [...]

By: What Happens When Your Local Paper Goes Online-Only? It Loses Most of Its Staff | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:00:14 +0000

[...] been asking Mark Josephson that question for months, and now he has an answer: Josephson, the CEO of local news platform Outside.in, figures the local, [...]

By: (Long) Weekend Update, 1.19.09 | Beth Callaghan | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:50:37 +0000

[...] of some recent ideas about how newspapers in general can be rescued from a grim fate. Hint: not by a Facebook event. There are some bright spots for traditional media, though, made possible by the increasingly [...]

By: boz boschen

boz boschen — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:56:39 +0000

You must have missed the Newspaper Association of America’s own promotion of Facebook. They offered “fans” of the NAA a chance to win a $10 Starbucks card by filling out a community profile on the NAA website.

By: Desperate Times Call For … :: FITSNews

Desperate Times Call For … :: FITSNews — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:08:27 +0000

[...] a nifty little analogy from the 24-year-old reporter who is organizing the event (courtesy of All Things Digital, ironically): “Millions of people have dogs to keep them safe, and being a dog owner myself, [...]

By: The Only Things Newspapers Are Good for is Killing Trees

The Only Things Newspapers Are Good for is Killing Trees — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:01:14 +0000

[...] and they’ve been searching for a strategy for a long time now. Over the weekend Peter Kafka wrote about a Facebook event targeted at trying to revive demand for the newspaper industry. The [...]

By: Ken Okel

Ken Okel — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:32:37 +0000

Newspapers have played an important role. But sticking to a bad business model has doomed many of them. What will survive will likely be a shadow of itself and in some cases that won’t be worth saving.

By: How Not To Save Newspapers: A Facebook Event [MediaMemo] | heave-ho.org

How Not To Save Newspapers: A Facebook Event [MediaMemo] | heave-ho.org — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:12:12 +0000

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By: Jonathan Marcus

Jonathan Marcus — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:02:18 +0000

Mark’s punt was loaded with unintentional comedy. Local media is perhaps the worst market opportunity.