adrian monck

Month: December 2008

  • Yet more thoughts on journalism and democracy

    I‘ve been pondering the relationship between journalism and democracy of late, and so too have the academic commenters gathering at the blog of Social Science Research Council boss, Craig Calhoun. Calhoun asks the question Sam Zell has already answered – What is the future of newspapers? And when social scientists smell blood, they’re mostly rubbing…

  • Newspaper cost structure

    Being a TV person, I’m curious about the cost structure of print newspaper operations. Over at the Monday Note, Frédéric Filloux writes: In a typical operation, the biggest costs are industrial ones: around 25%-35% for paper and printing; another 30%-40% for distribution; around 18-25% for editorial; the remaining 10-15% are for administrative and marketing expenditures.

  • The 21st century crisis

    Does this sound familiar? Communities and even entire countries seem to have less and less control of their own destinies. Traditional power structures are baffled by below-replacement fertility rates, illegal immigration and massive currency flows.

  • Unrequired Reading {8.12.08}

    These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life: