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13 May 2009
"NY Times unveils 'Times Wire' online news feed" - AFP
For my purposes, at least, this strikes me as a very valuable offering and I plan to test it out regularly to see if it becomes part of my routine - might it be essential?
12 May 2009
"Hospitals Begin to Move Into Supermarkets" - NYTimes.com
Are there not significant opportunities for newspapers to do much the same thing?
"Tintin Breaks Records at an Auction" - NYTimes.com
Tintin was/is a reporter. At least some things relating to journalism are selling well these days.
"'NYT' Launches Latest Digital Edition"
It's not clear to me that this will make the New York Times more essential to those customers who choose to pay for this. That, for me, is the test.
"We’re Dull, Small Banks Say, and Have Profit to Show for It" - NYTimes.com
Any comparisons worth making with community newspapers vs those in larger cities? Chicken dinner and church social reporting vs the guy now accused of murdering his xth wife who I think was arrested recently - PEDERSON or some variation on that spelling?
11 May 2009
"New Search Service Aims to Answer Tough Questions" - NYTimes.com
It reminds me of the role that a good newspaper is supposed to serve....
10 May 2009
"The American Press on Suicide Watch" - NYTimes.com
This is a superbly written essay on the challenges of the moment. I don't think his challenge will be met without findin a new indirect way to pay for what we are not willing to buy directly - quality journalism. That's what advertising has done until now, and we now to find new forms of advertising and new forms of other payments that will foot the bills of the reporters whose work society values but for which its people are not willing to pay directly.