Henry Blodgett - Why Newspapers are Screwed

Very interesting analysis on the coming failure of large newspapers, independent of their online success. Henry uses my favorite print and online newspaper as a reference for analysis, the New York Times. This will be a fascinating trend to watch and see how these business innovate and adapt. Hopefully some smart people are at the helm at the NY Times and we'll see how Murdoch does with the WSJ.

Once city's home sellers do better on their own

Definitely a sign of things to come. When you pay a realtor 6% and can do just as well going it alone... Read the NY Times story.

The pending convergence

Mark Cuban posted recently (http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/05/20/newspapers-tv-and-the-net-its-convergence-time/) on the need for television and newspapers to converge to survive. This does seem like a potential evolutionary path, however, I think that television is lost in terms of news, which is reflected in the audience demographics. I believe that the leader in re-inventing the news is the New York Times. The quality of the reporting in combination with multi-media is pushing the envelope for timeliness and quality.

Example: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2007/05/22/world/20070523_SEARCH_FEATURE.html

I don't see this quality of reporting any where else. It would not surprise me if we continue to see NY Times testing out a range of new media experiments as they continue to provide excellent blogs, video segments and insight reporting.