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Adults who read newspaper content weekly

Andrew Chavez — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:10:06 +0000

74%

in print or online, according to a report (PDF link) from Scarborough Research.

On newspaper serendipity

Andrew Chavez — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:00:37 +0000

The recommendation systems of Amazon and Netflix ably steer us to more of what we like. But tempting us to xenophily, luring us to stuff we don’t know and wouldn’t think we’d enjoy, is as yet a purely human skill. It’s the bread and butter of the daily newspaper.

— Harry R. Lewis, professor of computer science, Harvard University, and co-author of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, opining in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Newspaper ad sales decrease in one quarter

Andrew Chavez — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:10:05 +0000

29% / $2,800,000,000

for the second quarter of 2009, according to stats released by the Newspaper Association of America this week (analysis by Alan Mutter of Reflections of a Newsosaur here)

News if newspapers never existed

Andrew Chavez — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:00:18 +0000

If Mr. Gutenberg had come up with the Internet instead of movable type back in the late 15th century and for 400 years we had used the Internet for news and all types of entertainment and all kinds of everything else and I came along one day and said I have got this wonderful idea: We are going to chop down some trees up in Canada and ship them to a paper mill, which will cost us a fortune to run through and deliver newsprint, and then we’ll have a whole bunch of people staying up all night writing up things and then we’ll send a bunch of kids out the next day all over town delivering this thing and we are going to really wipe out the Internet with this is, it ain’t going to happen.

— Warren Buffett