Category Archives: newspapers

Decline in the U.S. newspaper industry in 3 charts

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Rakesh Agrawal

Grim This chart shows U.S. newspaper print revenue in nominal dollars. Grimmer Take the same data and adjust it for inflation. Now we’re nearly at 1950 levels. (2011 dollars) Grimmest Now take the inflation adjusted data and do a per … Continue reading →

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NOT first! Where the heck is Rocky’s analysis of Yelp?

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

I had several people comment to me this week that they would like to see more timely updates in response to breaking news on companies. For example, the Yelp S-1 was released on Thursday and I probably won’t post my … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with journalism today, part 1

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

One of the great innovators in online journalism, Jim Romenesko, resigned from his position at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank of sorts. Among journalists, Romenesko practically invented blogging. Some reporters who claimed to never had read a blog … Continue reading →

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iPhone coming to Sprint — or, why the Washington Post needs a technology columnist

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

The Washington Post’s technology columnist, Rob Pegoraro, announced yesterday that he is leaving his position. The proximate cause is management deciding that the sort of review and analysis of technology that I’ve been doing for most of those 17 years … Continue reading →

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Adding Color to breaking news

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

Today marks the launch of a groundbreaking new app called Color. The app, available for iPhone and Android, has users automatically share pictures with those around them. Take a picture and people in close proximity can see them. No logins, … Continue reading →

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All the news thats fit to retweet

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

The New York Times today came out with its long awaited digital subscription pricing. Beginning immediately in Canada and March 28 in the United States and the rest of the world, heavy users of the New York Times will be … Continue reading →

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Why Apple is right on subscriptions

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

Apple has built an incredibly valuable distribution platform. It’s perfectly reasonable for them to say “if you make money using our platform, we want a piece of it.” Distribution costs money. Facebook charges developers on its platform 30% for using … Continue reading →

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The Daily is a solid effort facing huge challenges

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

Today we saw the unveiling of Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad-based newspaper, The Daily. It looks very different from apps from the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today. The impression is distinctly more of a magazine … Continue reading →

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Junk journalism: media flaming fear and irrationality

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Rakesh Agrawal

The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz recently took the media to task for spending too much time covering the TSA’s new procedures, referring to it as a “‘junk’ journalism epidemic.” I’ve about had it with media types who insist on turning … Continue reading →

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Chart of the day: journalistic innumeracy illustrated

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Rakesh Agrawal

What would readers conclude after looking at the graph above? Best Buy sales have gone up at least 10 fold in the last 2 years. (Recession, what recession?) Best Buy’s monthly sales at the end of 2009 were roughly $22 … Continue reading →

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