Google’s head of news: Newspapers are the new Yahoo(gigaom.com)

Google’s head of news: Newspapers are the new Yahoo

http://gigaom.com/2012/05/12/googles-head-of-news-newspapers-are-the-new-yahoo/

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My favorite part of this post is a quote from Gingras describing how the monopoly ad-rate pricing that characterized the golden-era of newspapers came into place. It was the rise of television that caused a huge contraction in the newspaper industry. Only one or two newspapers survived in cities that once supported five or six dailies.