http://blog.pasker.net/2008/03/25/hello-new-york-times/ Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:02:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.pasker.net/2008/03/25/hello-new-york-times/#comment-537 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:59:29 +0000 http://theabstracttruth.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-537 Correction: Meant to say obituaries!

]]> http://blog.pasker.net/2008/03/25/hello-new-york-times/#comment-536 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:57:40 +0000 http://theabstracttruth.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-536 So, Bob, how do you solve the dilemma Arthur Sulzberger Jr. finds himself in? The NYT had revenues of about 3 billion and half of that amount was spent on print costs alone. Yet, print continues to generate the most money for them (advertising dollars that is). The online version is not sustainable yet. Obviously they need to figure something out becasue readers don’t click the ad banners and they hate paying for online content. It’s a great brand and the jourmalistic quality is second to none, but here we are talking about a declining asset. There’s no argument that the NYT is financially vulnerable. What I do hate is guys like Marc Andreesen and Jimmy Uterman writing obitoaries. At $15 a share it makes for a nice trophy acquisition, so perhaps a big digital media player buys it before Murduch kills it.

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