Tag Archives: Mark Potts

Will large-scale aggregation erase newspaper brands?

I’ve been read­ing for quite a while that aggre­ga­tion will be the next big thing online. News sites will no longer con­tain just the sto­ries that your local reporters in the news­room across town filed last night — they can’t afford to. They’ll con­tain links to the best report­ing and infor­ma­tion on a sub­ject, regard­less [...]
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Shunning the Web and thriving?

I read with some inter­est the recent New York Times arti­cle about the TriCityNews in Monmouth County, N.J. According to writer David Carr, the lit­tle alt weekly “aggres­sively ignores the Web” and has turned a tidy profit each year since 1999, basi­cally a rever­sal of the bust times other news­pa­pers have faced dur­ing the same [...]
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