Comments on: While Other Papers Sink, Oregonian Swims

By: Best of WordCount: Oregon edition « WordCount – Freelancing in the Digital Age

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:03:27 +0000

[...] While other papers sink, the Oregonian swims – I wrote this before the paper’s latest rounds of job cuts and salary reductions. But Portland’s daily is still publishing seven days a week, isn’t in bankruptcy and has managed to keep some of the country’s top feature writers and sports columnists – these days, that’s saying a lot. [...]

By: Rowe, Bhatia named Editors of the Year | portlandville.com

Rowe, Bhatia named Editors of the Year | portlandville.com — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:06:47 +0000

[...] back several days. The predictably nasty reaction from the “alternative” press, boosterish comments from newspaper vets, and other reactions bloggers in Portland and beyond. Bill [...]

By: Michelle Rafter

Michelle Rafter — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:30:05 +0000

Thanks for weighing in on this. I couldn’t agree more. I was on staff at the OC Register during the early and mid-1990s when management was starting to look at the online world. To its credit, the paper created an online presence fairly early, but it was pretty divorced from the newsroom: my assigning editor became the Website editor and immediately moved to a different office. At the time, the company was investing much more time and money in a 24/7 regional TV news channel. I think part of the problem was the constant need to churn out a daily product and the group-think mentality limited how quickly anyone was able or willing to move. The people who got it all left by the mid-1990s, many for digital news jobs elsewhere.

By: askbusinesscoach

askbusinesscoach — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:39:17 +0000

I have to say that newspaper owners have no one to blame but themselves. I’ve watched them attend trade shows, conferences since the early 90s’ and they talked up a storm but never really seemed to get what was really going on with the net and how it would impact their business. The winners are really the one’s who were not afraid of change and struck deals and went into new ventures. The handwriting has been on the wall for a very long time.