Re: Daringfireball.net

1. Daring Fireball: Pay Walls

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   mnovendstern 26-Jul-2009

   . They are small, flat organizations where most of the employees are producing actual content. ^{link »}

   I'm interested in some serious thought here. Is the answer really to scale down the size of newspapers operations? Doesn't the economy of size work the other way - where large companies have lower relative overhead? If newspapers disaggregated, wouldn't it be fair to think that administrative costs relative to content production costs would increase in each constituent, because the wedding announcement team would have to pay for its own executive leadership/office/all those costs, just like the sports team, just like the war correspondent team? I really am not sure. Also, I wonder about what "new, online-only publications" he's talking about that are lean and mean and operating at a profit. ^{link »}

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