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Newspaper economics: online and offline
Posted by Hal Varian, Chief Economist It is widely recognized that the news industry is facing financial difficulties, but there is little agreement about the source of those difficulties or what can be done about them. The debate about the role of the web has been particularly heated: is it the source of the problem or the source of the solution? The Federal Trade Commission is exploring questions like this through a series of workshops on the future of the news industry. At the first round in December, Josh Cohen from the Google News team spoke about how we're working with news publishers to help them attract bigger audiences and generate more revenue.
Monday Note
It’s the rumor that refuses to die and the myth that keeps on giving…pageviews. Serial Apple-rumorist Gene Munster is at it again: In a 15 minute Bloomberg Radio program (obligingly summarized here by Business Insider’s Henry Blodget and here by 9to5Mac) the PiperJaffray analyst issues his umpteenth version of the prediction: Apple’s TV is real. It will be ‘The Biggest Thing In Consumer Electronics Since The Smartphone’. As if this weren’t bold enough, Munster also predicts that Apple’s TV set will be announced this year and will ‘ freeze the market for five months ’. Naturally, the design will be bold: ‘ … just a sheet of glass, no edges or bevels ’.
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