http://newscoma.com/2008/10/10/sign-of-the-times/ Got A Two-Pack Habit And A Motel Tan Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:15:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://newscoma.com/2008/10/10/sign-of-the-times/comment-page-1/#comment-21323 the newspaper business » Blog Archive » Ten Reasons Why Newspapers Won't Reinvent News Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:48:07 +0000 http://newscoma.com/?p=7246#comment-21323 [...] Thanks Newcoma. 10. Finally: Newspaper companies hate modern journalism. Yes, that’s an enormously over-broad tarbrush, but this is a message I want to deliver via 2×4: Newspapers companies will not survive the transition to the multimedia future so long as the people within those companies oppose the rules, conventions and culture of that future. You’ll never successfully reinvent your company if you’re punishing the innovators, killing the messengers, rewarding the political infighters and sneering down your noses at the “pajamas-clad rabble” you blame for your troubles. [...] [...] Thanks Newcoma. 10. Finally: Newspaper companies hate modern journalism. Yes, that’s an enormously over-broad tarbrush, but this is a message I want to deliver via 2×4: Newspapers companies will not survive the transition to the multimedia future so long as the people within those companies oppose the rules, conventions and culture of that future. You’ll never successfully reinvent your company if you’re punishing the innovators, killing the messengers, rewarding the political infighters and sneering down your noses at the “pajamas-clad rabble” you blame for your troubles. [...]

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