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Deep inside a recent Wall Street Journal was a tiny article giving heart to all of us newspaper-lovers. It was a piece about the Journal’s parent company, Dow Jones, which had just decided to sink hundreds of millions of dollars in the Journal as part of an effort to “return to core competencies and strengths following the sale of its ... electronic business-information unit.”
This financial thrust mirrors similar moves by the Washington Post and New York Times to commit to their basic newspaper franchises. In upcoming months, you’ll see the Post unfolding a fullcolor newspaper with the most advanced presses in the world today.
Newspaper circulation is slightly up, advertising is way up, and newspaper properties are selling at record highs. This spate of good news follows decades of self-doubt in our industry about the longterm viability of the newspaper as an information medium. Publishers have lost sleep over the string of technologies casting doubt on the old-fashioned newspaper.
I was in school when Ted Turner declared his cable business was to replace newspapers within 10 years. Then the personalized facsimile newspaper was to replace the traditional newspaper with information tailored to your needs and delivered to your desk. What could be better? Now the Internet offers everything under the sun, from your local paper at timespaper8.com to a site called “Monica Lewinsky versus Mr. T.”
In the beginning, Internet pioneers made aggressive for
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