“Burn 90% of it to the ground. And do it fast,” according to Michael Rosenblum at the Society of Editors Conference 2008.
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November 17, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Near-crisis for newspapers calls for urgent action, execs told « The Information Valet Project
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November 19, 2008 at 4:19 pm
jlsimons
Another great find, JP. Thanks. I think I’ll mention this on my blog.
November 19, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Dead…dead…dead « Can someone please explain…?
[...] for his analogy of the death of the whale oil industry in New Bedford, and it’s here on Diablogue. (I’d also be remiss if I didn’t mention Seth Godin’s great post, “Do you [...]
December 6, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Ari Herzog
I happened across Michael Rosenblum in an hour-long C-SPAN interview a few weeks ago and he blew me away. He never spoke about newspapers, but focused on TV and his background that included how Al Gore came to his house to talk about building Current TV and why Michael now thinks Current TV has the wrong concept.
Anyway, fascinating man.
February 5, 2009 at 9:56 am
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