Comments on: Journalism on the Brink (Part II)

By: A post-P-I, PostGlobe Misstep « The Buzz

A post-P-I, PostGlobe Misstep « The Buzz — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:55:34 +0000

[...] or PI.com are local politics, watchdog functions, sports or arts and culture. Pick one. And, as I have been advocating for years, they both need to start charging for their niche [...]

By: glennnelson

glennnelson — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:47:11 +0000

Josh, I believe that an upstart could absolutely compete with a small daily paper. The Internet is the great equalizer. There are plenty independents out there kicking major media’s butt in niche content. There would of course be challenges:

* Newspaper has infrastructure (could be duplicated).
* Newspaper has branding (tougher challenge; would need to be proactive — guerilla marketing, community outreach, maybe even advertising).
* Can you match the newspaper’s pockets?

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:34:54 +0000

Could an online upstart compete with a small daily paper. Could you sub out local news/sports and all the associated multimedia and compete with daily free? What do you think you would need content wise to compete?

By: Hairy

Hairy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:41:43 +0000

Sign me up! What a great idea. Plenty of good news and in-depth stories…and availabilty for stringers.

I also agree with you about Entertainment. I miss the TV page and the TV news. No one handles radio anymore, except for the P-I once a week. Maybe all the “retired” writers, such as Patrick McDonald and John Hartl can work on a free lance basis.

The newsroom are there and ready for the taking.

Keep pushing, Glenn…….