Comments on: Is there anything special about online newspapers? http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/is-there-anything-special-about-online-newspapers/ views on the news business Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:58:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Adrian Monck http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/is-there-anything-special-about-online-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-712 Adrian Monck Tue, 27 May 2008 11:18:02 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=963#comment-712 I think magazines are better placed than papers. What bothers me about local papers - especially in the US - is the way some of them (there are notable exceptions) have just dumped themselves online. I think magazines are better placed than papers. What bothers me about local papers - especially in the US - is the way some of them (there are notable exceptions) have just dumped themselves online.

]]> By: Adam Tinworth http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/is-there-anything-special-about-online-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-711 Adam Tinworth Mon, 26 May 2008 15:05:31 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=963#comment-711 I'm not one of the "print is dead" crowd - although many of my colleagues are. But I'm a firm believer that migrating a paper product to the web requires significant structural shifts to both elements - the paper and the online. The problem at the moment is that, for most organisations, the revenue is still biased towards the paper product, rather than the web. If you impose too large a structural change on the print element, then you risk killing your revenue and dying before the revenue switches to the web. Timing is going to be everything over the next decade. I’m not one of the “print is dead” crowd - although many of my colleagues are.

But I’m a firm believer that migrating a paper product to the web requires significant structural shifts to both elements - the paper and the online.

The problem at the moment is that, for most organisations, the revenue is still biased towards the paper product, rather than the web. If you impose too large a structural change on the print element, then you risk killing your revenue and dying before the revenue switches to the web.

Timing is going to be everything over the next decade.

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