Comments on: My Ten Point Plan to Reinvent The Newspaper Business http://www.tedstake.com/2008/03/18/my-ten-point-plan-to-reinvent-the-newspaper-business/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean http://www.tedstake.com/2008/03/18/my-ten-point-plan-to-reinvent-the-newspaper-business/#comment-8946 Sean Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:54:01 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=2099#comment-8946 The only problem newspapers face is a defeatist attitude and poor publicity. Bloggers exist by restating what newspapers already have. Newspapers do not need reinventing, they need to stop thinking they need reinventing. </p> <p> </p> <p>Newspapers need top quality journalists, a dedication to more staff and resources and a better public front that shows how important newspapers are. </p> <p> </p> <p>Bloggers need newspapers. The Internet needs newspapers. Newspapers don't need anybody. That's why they will survive. The only problem newspapers face is a defeatist attitude and poor publicity. Bloggers exist by restating what newspapers already have. Newspapers do not need reinventing, they need to stop thinking they need reinventing.

Newspapers need top quality journalists, a dedication to more staff and resources and a better public front that shows how important newspapers are.

Bloggers need newspapers. The Internet needs newspapers. Newspapers don’t need anybody. That’s why they will survive.

]]> By: Mark http://www.tedstake.com/2008/03/18/my-ten-point-plan-to-reinvent-the-newspaper-business/#comment-8945 Mark Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:10:50 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=2099#comment-8945 I was a newspaper guy for 20 years. I learned a lot of things during that time. But one big thing was that newspapers are terribly averse to change. The print newspaper business will continue to collapse over time--and new companies will slowly replace the old guard (Tribune company, Gannett, etc. It's kinda sad, but totally innevitable. I was a newspaper guy for 20 years. I learned a lot of things during that time. But one big thing was that newspapers are terribly averse to change. The print newspaper business will continue to collapse over time–and new companies will slowly replace the old guard (Tribune company, Gannett, etc. It’s kinda sad, but totally innevitable.

]]> By: Joel http://www.tedstake.com/2008/03/18/my-ten-point-plan-to-reinvent-the-newspaper-business/#comment-8944 Joel Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:02:00 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=2099#comment-8944 By the way. Jonas Martinsson over at the Feedjournal is looking for investors and some savvy business partners. By the way. Jonas Martinsson over at the Feedjournal is looking for investors and some savvy business partners.

]]> By: Joel http://www.tedstake.com/2008/03/18/my-ten-point-plan-to-reinvent-the-newspaper-business/#comment-8943 Joel Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:58:09 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=2099#comment-8943 P.S. </p> <p> </p> <p>If you combined: </p> <p> </p> <p>Feedjournal.com + Scribd.com + Facebook.com </p> <p> </p> <p>You'd have the perfect Online Newspaper Platform. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> P.S.

If you combined:

Feedjournal.com + Scribd.com + Facebook.com

You’d have the perfect Online Newspaper Platform.

]]> By: Joel http://www.tedstake.com/2008/03/18/my-ten-point-plan-to-reinvent-the-newspaper-business/#comment-8942 Joel Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:37:37 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=2099#comment-8942 I agree your suggestions except for #8 and #9 Editors are necessary because most user generates stuff is junk! </p> <p> </p> <p>All the papers have to do is take a look at some new technologies available right now that can save them. </p> <p> </p> <p>First being a new app. called the FEEDJOURNAL.com Newspapers could monetize their blogs overnight. </p> <p> </p> <p>Check out what I've done with the Feedjournal Publisher at </p> <p>www.Libertynewsprint.com I agree your suggestions except for #8 and #9 Editors are necessary because most user generates stuff is junk!

All the papers have to do is take a look at some new technologies available right now that can save them.

First being a new app. called the FEEDJOURNAL.com Newspapers could monetize their blogs overnight.

Check out what I’ve done with the Feedjournal Publisher at

http://www.Libertynewsprint.com

]]> By: washdc http://www.tedstake.com/2008/03/18/my-ten-point-plan-to-reinvent-the-newspaper-business/#comment-8941 washdc Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:04:54 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=2099#comment-8941 Ted, </p> <p>Do you have some specific tactical suggestions for new revenue generation? These are great ideas, but without revenue, they aren't a part of my business plan. Ted,

Do you have some specific tactical suggestions for new revenue generation? These are great ideas, but without revenue, they aren’t a part of my business plan.

]]> By: george http://www.tedstake.com/2008/03/18/my-ten-point-plan-to-reinvent-the-newspaper-business/#comment-8940 george Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:53:41 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=2099#comment-8940 I think it is too late for newspapers to change. Take a look at the coverage of Spitzer's hooker Ashley Dupre. Why is it that the only newspaper that talked to Dupre is the New York Times? Newspapers shovel these turgid budget stories at their readers, pontificate at extreme length over five years in Iraq, and have diahrrea over local political figures. But when it comes to something that has readership interest like Dupre, they avoid it like the plague. I don't want to beat this to death, but 2 million hits of Dupre's (not very good, imo) song shows public interest. But editors hold their nose and say coverage of a hooker scandal is above their standards. Well, if I were the editor of a newspaper, I would take reporters off tasks writing about the opening of new shopping centers, or meetings of the local sewage authority, and put them on the beat of finding and talking to Dupre. I think it is too late for newspapers to change. Take a look at the coverage of Spitzer’s hooker Ashley Dupre. Why is it that the only newspaper that talked to Dupre is the New York Times? Newspapers shovel these turgid budget stories at their readers, pontificate at extreme length over five years in Iraq, and have diahrrea over local political figures. But when it comes to something that has readership interest like Dupre, they avoid it like the plague. I don’t want to beat this to death, but 2 million hits of Dupre’s (not very good, imo) song shows public interest. But editors hold their nose and say coverage of a hooker scandal is above their standards. Well, if I were the editor of a newspaper, I would take reporters off tasks writing about the opening of new shopping centers, or meetings of the local sewage authority, and put them on the beat of finding and talking to Dupre.

]]> By: edward http://www.tedstake.com/2008/03/18/my-ten-point-plan-to-reinvent-the-newspaper-business/#comment-8939 edward Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:30:13 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=2099#comment-8939 Do you own -- directly or indirectly --any newspaper stocks? I don't believe Time, Inc. owns any newspapers since walking away from the Washington Star, which was before it bought AOL. Thanks. Do you own — directly or indirectly –any newspaper stocks? I don’t believe Time, Inc. owns any newspapers since walking away from the Washington Star, which was before it bought AOL. Thanks.

]]> By: rick http://www.tedstake.com/2008/03/18/my-ten-point-plan-to-reinvent-the-newspaper-business/#comment-8938 rick Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:59:23 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=2099#comment-8938 I like a lot of your points... but its not that easy to throw Math is king... Content is King and some times the best math wizards don't know what makes for good content. I like a lot of your points… but its not that easy to throw Math is king… Content is King and some times the best math wizards don’t know what makes for good content.

]]> By: Bob H http://www.tedstake.com/2008/03/18/my-ten-point-plan-to-reinvent-the-newspaper-business/#comment-8937 Bob H Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:58:21 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=2099#comment-8937 Do you have any original ideas, or just regurgitating what Jeff Jarvis and every other media pundit has spewed forth? </p> <p> </p> <p>You make all kinds of vast generalizations, yet in fact quite a few newspapers are doing many of the things you pretend are revolutionary: user-generated content, blog rolls, syndicating, widgets, etc. Guess what? The revenue is still minuscule. And geniuses like you still have been unable to explain how all this is going to pay the bills. </p> <p> </p> <p>It's easy to pontificate, and keep telling us that all the smart people working on great newspapers across this country "just don't get it." Apparently only smart people like you "get it." It's really tiresome. </p> <p> Do you have any original ideas, or just regurgitating what Jeff Jarvis and every other media pundit has spewed forth?

You make all kinds of vast generalizations, yet in fact quite a few newspapers are doing many of the things you pretend are revolutionary: user-generated content, blog rolls, syndicating, widgets, etc. Guess what? The revenue is still minuscule. And geniuses like you still have been unable to explain how all this is going to pay the bills.

It’s easy to pontificate, and keep telling us that all the smart people working on great newspapers across this country “just don’t get it.” Apparently only smart people like you “get it.” It’s really tiresome.

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