Newspaper transition: Preserve local newsgathering
What is a newspaper anymore? Many different things, judging from the e-mails I receive from readers and the feedback I get from friends and the community.
In my last column, I wrote that I am using this space during the next couple of months to examine the many ideas and business models that have been suggested to support professional journalism and the newspaper of the future. Before I can go further with this topic, I need to reconcile what I ...
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Very few newspapers are still family owned; I'd like to hear more from the family members who run The Seattle Times. Are family-owned papers doing financially better than corporately owned ones?