THE NEWSPAPER SITUATION: San Francisco is the cultural center of a metropolitan area with over seven million residents, thirty Fortune 500 companies, two of the best universities on the planet, and a serious share of the world's brainpower.
Luxembourg newspapers; currency situation, the rationing system, and underground activities are dealt with in article.
Print realities, digital goals: Swartz describes Hearsts newspapers situation as having a revenue and business model problem as opposed to an audience problem. Print subscribers dont pay Hearst enough, he goes on to say, and they certainly arent paying for the content.
We talked about his new book and why it is titled the way it is, if he's really the Google fanboy people make him out to be, and what he thinks about the whole Google vs. the newspaper industry situation.
By contrast, the rightwing newspapers read the situation differently.
If that's true of British and American newspapers, then the situation is, if anything, worse in continental Europe.
Its editor, Jeannine A. Guttman, said last week: "Because of the very difficult economic situation newspapers are in, they are turning to a very painful choice.
"But the heart of Max's legacy," he went on, "is that in the worst economic situation newspapers have faced since the Great Depression he kept the newsroom of the Times intact and practiced great journalism.
He vents by writing articles for journals and newspapers decrying the situation.
But in a 10-page memorandum to employees last week, Mr. Blethen said that the newspaper's financial situation was precarious -- he contends that the newspaper lost $2.1 million in 2000 under the joint operating agreement, and a total of $10 million over the last three years.
