13 posts and columns on Ken Doctor

QOTD: No Good News for Newspapers

Maybe, we’ll dodge a second recession in the short-term, but the game is the game, and publishers are simply running out of good choices. They’ve been dealt a deck of wild cards, misplayed a few hands and now have fewer chips left to play.

Analyst/author Ken Doctor with a grim prognosis for the newspaper business, which isn’t in any shape to weather a new macroeconomic collapse. Unpleasant factoid of the day: Industry ad revenue has been down for the past 22 quarters.

"Like It or Not: You're in the Media Business" ATD Reader Discount

in News on March 18, 2008 at 1:33 am PT

One of AllThingsD.com’s greatest friends–integral to its creation, in fact–has been Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and former president of the Dow Jones Consumer Media Group. Crovitz knows a thing or two about the transition mainstream media has been making to new media and, more importantly, was never scared of the [...]