Topic: Alan Mutter

The Economics of Non-Profit Newspapers

Alan Mutter is a genuine expert on newspaper economics, which is one reason why his bizarre blog entry yesterday on the economics of non-profit newspapers is so puzzling. The math, as detailed below, shows that it would take $88 billion - or nearly ...
Jeff Jarvis at Buzz Machine has a spectacular 1500-word post today. Columbia's Reconstruction of Journalism report, in my view, gives up on the business prospects for news and resorts to what I believe are desperate measures - namely: The Washington Post has ...
In a seasonally small third quarter, McClatchy Co. (nyse: MNI - news - people ), against all odds, still reported positive net income. Admittedly, I am a little more removed than I used to be from the newspaper business but I was surprised. As Alan ...

I Read the News Today Oh Boy

The article discusses July 11, 2008 when the stock price of seven major U.S. newspapers dropped to an all-time low and the reaction from bloggers. According to blogger Alan D. Mutter, this was the worst day for U.S. newspapers in ...
Newspapers expected to open Internet toll booths this fall as publishers test online feesWith their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some of the material they ...

Newspapers: Seeking the Original Sin

Like priests looking for someone to sacrifice, Alan Mutter, Steve Buttry, Howard Owens, and Steve Yelvington have been on the lookout for the sin that led newspapers astray. For Mutter, it's not charging; for Buttry, it's not innovating; for Owens ...
According to the latest stats from the Inland Press Association, larger newspapers with higher circulations are suffering more than their smaller siblings. Newspaper veteran Alan Mutter reports that the bigger the newspapers are, the more their profits decreased over the past five ...
Is it possible to be fascinated by an issue and yet tired of it at the same time? I know that it's a crucial time for the newspaper business (which pays my salary), and I know that many thoughtful and intelligent ...
The notion of micropayments - a pay-per-click/download web model - is hardly a new one. We asked a group of people who have given a lot of thought to micropayments - William Baker, Alan Mutter, Clay Shirky, and Marshall W. Van Alstyne - the following ...

Getting Over Print Newspapers

This post is in response to Why newspapers can't stop the presses from Newsosaur by Alan Mutter. So we have newspaper companies that are irreversibly losing money. As for Mr. Mutter jumping the shark, his article assumes that there is an ...