Comments on: Ideas for Online News, Or What’s Next for the Information Business http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/11/20/chrys-wu-ricochet-online-news-jobs/ Where Ideas For Online News Bounce Around Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dawn Rivers Baker http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/11/20/chrys-wu-ricochet-online-news-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Dawn Rivers Baker Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:28:20 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=374#comment-74 I absolutely agree with Michael. First order of business is to reduce costs by going with a virtual newsroom where everybody works from home. Dismantle the unneeded infrastructure. Make more use of freelancers (cheaper than full-time employees). Encourage electronic delivery of the newspaper so that you kill fewer trees and substantially lower production costs. Study those micro-publishers and learn how to run a news operation on a shoestring. The CEOs would probably be amazed at how much money they don't have to spend.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-74">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> I absolutely agree with Michael. First order of business is to reduce costs by going with a virtual newsroom where everybody works from home. Dismantle the unneeded infrastructure. Make more use of freelancers (cheaper than full-time employees). Encourage electronic delivery of the newspaper so that you kill fewer trees and substantially lower production costs. Study those micro-publishers and learn how to run a news operation on a shoestring. The CEOs would probably be amazed at how much money they don’t have to spend.

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]]> By: MIchael Rosenblum http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/11/20/chrys-wu-ricochet-online-news-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-73 MIchael Rosenblum Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:10:58 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=374#comment-73 HI Chris there is a demand for news, information and content, but in the highly fractionalized world of the web, the ad revenues are going to be substantially lower. That's OK, because the cost of producing content is commensurately lower. I mean, how much does it cost you to do this site? The killer is the newspaper's now largely unnecessary overhead. That is what is killing the business. Like the photo above. Send those people home to work from their laptops. Turn off the lights. Burn the building the ground. Now, we're getting somewhere.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-73">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> HI Chris
there is a demand for news, information and content, but in the highly fractionalized world of the web, the ad revenues are going to be substantially lower. That’s OK, because the cost of producing content is commensurately lower. I mean, how much does it cost you to do this site? The killer is the newspaper’s now largely unnecessary overhead. That is what is killing the business. Like the photo above. Send those people home to work from their laptops. Turn off the lights. Burn the building the ground. Now, we’re getting somewhere.

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