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Two-Paper Markets Will Disappear Soon

Without question, any city with two competing dailies or even neighboring cities with dailies can start counting the days until those dailies either merge or force each other to collapse completely. In a great piece on Followthemedia.com, Philip Stone describes two such markets: Dallas-Fort Worth and L.A.-Orange County. There are undoubtedly others, such as Seattle [...]

Conde Nast Gets It Right With Portfolio

Portfolio remains the best business magazine on the market today, and stands as the best new magazine I’ve read in some time. In an article this month entitled ‘Paper Tigers,’ Roger Lowenstein details the efforts of Charles Madigan to compile previously published articles relating to the decline of daily newspapers. It’s a solid article and [...]