Self explanatory, really:
| Postmortem for a Dead Newspaper |
| from the what-not-to-do dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 02, @14:00 (The Internet) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/02/1550248/Postmortem-for-a-Dead-Newspaper |
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Techdirt points out a great [0]postmortem for the Rocky Mountain News, a
newspaper that ended up shutting down because they couldn't adapt to a
world beyond print. While long, the talk (in both video and print) is
incredibly candid coming from someone who lived through it and shares at
least some portion of the blame. "It seems like pretty much everything
was based on looking backwards, not forward. There was little effort to
figure out how to better enable a community, or any recognition that the
community of people who read the paper were the organizations true main
asset. ... The same game is playing out not just in newspapers, but in a
number of other businesses as well. Like the Rocky Mountain News, those
businesses are looking backwards and defining themselves on the wrong
terms, while newer startups don't have such legacy issues to deal with."

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Links:
0. http://techdirt.com/articles/20091001/1900266400.shtml