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John Paton on newspapers' future

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by .

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Two newspaper companies hired new chiefs last week. The Star Tribune hired Michael Klingensmith, my former colleague at Entertainment Weekly, and Journal Register hired John Paton, now head of Spanish-language publisher impreMedia and a newspaperman with roots in Canada. The latter didn’t get the attention it deserved. Paton has executed a strategic vision at impreMedia, […]

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The Potential Value of Online News

Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by .

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Here’s a sign that news still has some $ value. American newspaper consumers are willing to pay 68% of what they spend on their daily papers when it comes to online news, a PricewaterhouseCoopers study shows. Whether or not that’s enough to sustain an online-only business model (considering the lack of advertising dollars floating around […]

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