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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

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

newspaperlessConventional wisdom is that if today’s newspapers want to survive, they’re going to have to ditch their printing presses and most of their staff and learn to do more with less in an online-only world.

OK. But exactly how much less?

I’ve 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, online-only newspaper of tomorrow for a decent-sized city has a staff of 20 people. That’s 20 people, period: Perhaps six of those people are “news gatherers.” Here’s his math.

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

How Not to Save Newspapers: A Facebook Event

Everything about “National Buy A Newspaper Day” makes me sad. Except for the passion of the 24-year-old newspaper reporter from Fairbanks, Alaska, who is organizing it.

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Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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