Can newspapers be saved? from themselves?

Newspapers are in deep trouble. You don’t read much about it, perhaps because newspapers aren’t keen to report on their own demise. The Boston Globe, my local newspaper, lost $50M last year and is projected to lose $85M this year. The New York Times, owner of the Boston Globe, has threatened to shut down the newspaper unless labor unions agree to $20M in cuts. Three of the four unions agreed, howe

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Don Dodge:"The inconvenient truth is that the world changed, they didn’t adapt quickly enough, and now the required changes are so severe they can’t bear to implement them. What follows is a slow death spiral, lots of finger pointing and blame, but very little introspection and learning."