Comments on: Netscape co-founder: shut off the print edition right now

By: tom.corbett

tom.corbett — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:08:20 +0000

To think we need a guru from Silicon Vallee to tell the NYT what to do! There are few others who suggested the same thing. Let’s see how long it takes before they [NYT] do it. If they do it. Exciting times for news media….

By: Unrequired Reading {29.10.08}

Unrequired Reading {29.10.08} — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:06:42 +0000

[...] Netscape co-founder: shut off the print edition right now | forum4editors – "Shut off the print edition right now. You’ve got to play offense. You’ve got to do what Intel did in ’85 when it was getting killed by the Japanese in memory chips, which was its dominant business. And it famously killed the business — shut it off and focused on its much smaller business, microprocessors, because that was going to be the market of the future. And the minute Intel got out of playing defense and into playing offense, its future was secure. The newspaper companies have to do exactly the same thing. [...]

By: John

John — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:32:45 +0000

Christian Science Monitor print edition goes down for the count. See what it means for business PR: http://www.pilmerpr.com/blog