Comments on: How the AP blew it http://blog.agrawals.org/2009/04/15/how-the-ap-blew-it/ Rocky Agrawal's blog on search, wireless, maps and Web 2.0 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:08:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: In Which Your Blogger Piles On the Associated Press « Reinventing the Newsroom http://blog.agrawals.org/2009/04/15/how-the-ap-blew-it/#comment-25328 In Which Your Blogger Piles On the Associated Press « Reinventing the Newsroom Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:14:10 +0000 http://blog.agrawals.org/?p=895#comment-25328 [...] something simple, efficient and elegant: the hyperlink. (At reDesign, Rakesh Agrawal has takes on what the AP did wrong and what it ought to do now. And Marksonland’s Mike Markson explains why the AP is in a [...] [...] something simple, efficient and elegant: the hyperlink. (At reDesign, Rakesh Agrawal has takes on what the AP did wrong and what it ought to do now. And Marksonland’s Mike Markson explains why the AP is in a [...]

]]> By: What the AP must do now « reDesign http://blog.agrawals.org/2009/04/15/how-the-ap-blew-it/#comment-25224 What the AP must do now « reDesign Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:13:54 +0000 http://blog.agrawals.org/?p=895#comment-25224 [...] journalism, newspapers, publishing — Rocky Agrawal @ 10:13 am I’ve written before about how the Associated Press blew it in the early days of the Web by choosing to not play in the online news space. More than a decade later, AP still has tremendous [...] [...] journalism, newspapers, publishing — Rocky Agrawal @ 10:13 am I’ve written before about how the Associated Press blew it in the early days of the Web by choosing to not play in the online news space. More than a decade later, AP still has tremendous [...]

]]> By: Newspaper companies can’t unring the bell « reDesign http://blog.agrawals.org/2009/04/15/how-the-ap-blew-it/#comment-25126 Newspaper companies can’t unring the bell « reDesign Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:21:29 +0000 http://blog.agrawals.org/?p=895#comment-25126 [...] Inability to develop national scale. Most of the newspaper companies competitors can’t play at a national scale. This includes both online and offline media such as Google and TV networks. This makes it easier to spread out costs and easier to generate revenue. At startribune.com, we built out online yellow pages, entertainment guides, classifieds, etc. well before the vertical players existed. But because we were a regional paper, we couldn’t generate sufficient revenue to compete with the focused vertical players. The fragmentation also makes it harder for advertisers who want to buy reach. (See my related post on How the AP blew it.) [...] [...] Inability to develop national scale. Most of the newspaper companies competitors can’t play at a national scale. This includes both online and offline media such as Google and TV networks. This makes it easier to spread out costs and easier to generate revenue. At startribune.com, we built out online yellow pages, entertainment guides, classifieds, etc. well before the vertical players existed. But because we were a regional paper, we couldn’t generate sufficient revenue to compete with the focused vertical players. The fragmentation also makes it harder for advertisers who want to buy reach. (See my related post on How the AP blew it.) [...]

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