Tag Archives: Newspaper

A rocky future ?

Posted on March 12, 2009 by manu prasad

The video that marked the end of Rocky Mountain News, a daily newspaper in Denver, would have a sobering effect on anyone who’s worked in the industry. The newspaper printed its final edition on Feb 27th, 55 days short of … Continue reading →

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Paper Money

Posted on February 23, 2009 by manu prasad

There was a wonderful post in the Edelman Digital blog titled ‘The Last Newspaper‘. An insightful, well balanced and objective take on stories and content which perhaps captures the newspaper and web relationship best. From the post Stories are personal … Continue reading →

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News out of the paper

Posted on January 22, 2009 by manu prasad

Its not exactly breaking news that newspapers are almost in desperation mode now (no, don’t throw ink at me, this is in the US market context) to make sense of the wild wild web, as the very public who used … Continue reading →

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When the mass gets social…

Posted on December 5, 2008 by manu prasad

While there have been many negative reactions to the way the media handled the recent Mumbai events, I came across a few interesting ones that were a direct attack on the brands involved. One is a Facebook group demanding that … Continue reading →

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News..yes. Papers?

Posted on November 26, 2008 by manu prasad

Rupert Murdoch recently stated that the doomsayers predicting the end of the newspaper industry are off the mark. According to him, online readers also need news form a source that they can trust, and that’s what newspapers have always been … Continue reading →

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Making it Really Simple

Posted on October 29, 2008 by manu prasad

Forrester has a new study ‘What’s holding RSS back?’ According to the report, RSS usage is at 11%, and most people don’t use it because they can’t see its relevance in their lives. You can get some good snapshots of … Continue reading →

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In the news

Posted on September 22, 2008 by manu prasad

Sometime back, I’d written about the need for newspapers to give the digital medium a bit more consideration in their strategy. While India claims to buck the trend of falling newspaper subscriptions, I wonder how many economies have a thriving … Continue reading →

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Virtual Fourth Estate

Posted on August 27, 2008 by manu prasad

A few articles that have to do with newspapers caught my attention in the last couple of weeks. One was the fact that Instablogs, is doing something I desperately wished it would do – opening the network for external blogs. … Continue reading →

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Local Portals

Posted on June 18, 2008 by manu prasad

I came across this today – a local site for Kolkata – I Love Kolkata.com, powered by the ABP group. The site for Kolkata Mirror had been launched a while back, though the paper itself has not been launched in … Continue reading →

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