'Dispatch' announces 45 layoffs on editorial staff

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Newspapers Dead Since 1918, Still Dying
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/132974.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=CWwAAA ... e=bookclip

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

http://web2watch.blogspot.com/2009/05/e ... alism.html

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/ma ... g-websites

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

WSJ is gonna try Micropayments:

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ws ... opayments/

Hope that works out better than Myspace did.

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Embarrassing Newspaper Bailout Saves 15 Jobs
http://www.businessinsider.com/embarras ... obs-2009-5

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

http://www.slate.com/id/2219164/

jennyw · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 4:26 pm **Posts:** 343

Jawbreaker is slowly but surely destroying my will to live.

bnb614 · **Posted:** Sat May 30, 2009 5:50 pm

When I bought today's Dispatch at a gas station this morning, the attendant told me that starting Monday, June 1st, the newsstand cost of a Dispatch Mon-Sat will increase to $1.00. Anyone verify that? If so that will be just one more nail in the coffin.

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Sweet demos from The NYT R+D

Also: the Embeddable Newspaper
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/05/31/t ... newspaper/

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Student Journalists, Technologists Collaborate on News Innovations
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2009/06/stud ... ns158.html

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Interesting personalized news aggregator. How accurate it was after entering only my name is kinda scary, and I have a pretty generic name.

http://www.dailyperfect.com/

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Cool stuff here:
http://specials.washingtonpost.com/in/innovation-news/

Guessing most of it wasn't done by interns.

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Newspapers in tech-savvy cities first to go.
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=123&aid=165290

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

http://www.youtube.com/reporterscenter

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Or you could crowdsource the funding/execution of specific pieces, like this:

http://spot.us/pitches/238

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/busin ... shall.html

http://www.minonline.com/news/Top-5-Pai ... 11526.html

Jawbreaker · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:10 pm **Posts:** 6351

Ya'll won't be needin that sports section, either.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/busin ... 0espn.html

jennyw · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 4:26 pm **Posts:** 343

Every time you post something on this thread, a little part of me dies. I DON'T HAVE MUCH OF ME LEFT!

samchecker · **Joined:** Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:17 pm **Posts:** 1566

'Dispatch' announces 45 layoffs on editorial staff

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