As the newspaper industry is unraveling at frightening speed, something is emerging on the pure player front, something that could (I’m being cautious) lead to the seeds of a business model.
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But, before going any further, I want to make sure readers of the Monday Note have fully abandoned all hope for any turnaround whatsoever in [...]

A few years ago, someone involved in the rescue of the French newspaper Libération asked me what would I do to save the paper. The question meant a lot to me. I had spent a total of twelve years at “Libé”, many of those when the paper was at its best (I even enrolled Jean-Louis [...]

Sorry for the winners/whiners of the Oscars of pessimism: Journalism will remain as interesting as it used to be. OK, granted: Most of the job’s mystique is gone for good; football-sized newsrooms; charismatic, seasoned, suspenders-bearing editors belong to the past. So do glossy, reportage-loaded magazines. Many bad things are happening to journalism, including a [...]

The J-curve is an economics metaphor, a way of saying things will get worse before getting better. That’s the prospect for the global print media sector. For the American press, advertising revenue keeps dropping at a steady yearly rate of 12% to 15%. No industry can withstand a sustained double-digit decrease of its core business. [...]