Another entrepreneurial jurno

Posted on September 23, 2009 by jestevens

The Kansas City Star reports today that 24-year-old Nick Sloan bought the online version of the Kansas City Kansan from Gatehouse Media. Gatehouse closed the Kansas City Kansan print edition in January. Sloan, 24, said he became the sole owner of www.kansascitykansan.com on Saturday after negotiating an unspecified payment based on royalties. “Right now it’s [...]

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Michael Moore: Newspapers slit their own throat

Posted on September 21, 2009 by jestevens

Well, yes, Mr. Moore, they did. But it was a little more complex than the reasons you gave. Newspapers lost their way when they became public corporations, beholden to shareholders and not their communities; Newspapers lost their way when they hired publishers and upper management who didn’t come from news organizations, but from cereal companies; [...]

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