Posted by: John | June 30, 2009

Trainwrecks along the way as local newspapers try to morph into profitable web businesses

The before picture: 272 employees running the local Ann Arbor News (a paper with a 174 year history). The after picture: All employees laid off, and traffic (4K UVs/Mo) that a blogger wouldn’t brag about. I don’t remember another example of such a rapid decline across an entire industry.


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