Just a last-minute reminder: The deadline for ReinventingClassifieds.com’s Best Idea for Reinventing Classifieds competitions (one for media/advertising pros, one for students, each with a $500 cash prize) is the end of the day on Dec. 31, 2008.
We’re not looking for lengthy proposals (though it’s possible one might win). We’ll judge on the merits of the […]

In his (always must-read) blog, Newsosaur, media consultant and former newspaper executive Alan Mutter challenges the view that the poor economy is the crux of newspapers’ problems, as some industry executives are suggesting: “It’s not the stupid economy, newspapers.”
Read his entire post, but here are a few excerpts:
“Newspaper ad sales didn’t just go the wrong […]

How bad do things have to get before publishers and classifieds managers are willing to do a complete (and badly needed) remodel of newspaper printed classified sections?

‘No one wants to be first. It’s amazing to me that they can’t/won’t/don’t want to try something different!’
-Bill Ostendorf

That question kept popping into my mind as I interviewed Bill […]

ReinventingClassifieds.com essay competition offers cash prize for best idea or solution to the newspaper classifieds crisis

BOULDER, Colorado (June 6, 2008) — College students studying journalism are entering a tenuous employment market, in part because of the newspaper industry’s decline — much of it fueled by the losses of billions of dollars in revenue for newspaper […]