Carrick Patterson
Paper Money: For-Profit Arkansas Times Increasingly Relies On Donors
Arkansas Times Publisher Alan Leveritt and Director of Development Wythe Walker have hit upon a new business model for profit-making news outlets: tak read more >
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Will Fortune Favor the Future of News?
Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman has staked his paper’s future on readers taking the iPad path to daily news. That change in our reading habits have coincided with another sign of the apocalypse for daily papers, the $1.4 billion merger of America’s two largest newspaper chains, Gannett and GateHouse. read more >
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Bad News, Good News And Business Models
Wehco Media is converting two south Arkansas dailies into weeklies, and a hedge fund-owned group is out to buy the big news chain Gannett. read more >
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Printing the Paper, and Avoiding Red Ink
Newspapers are trying different tactics, from layoffs to online subscriptions, to save a business model disrupted by the internet. read more >
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