idio Platform

After the secretive meeting of newspaper executives a few weeks ago, at which the economic future of the industry was discussed in depth (see my thoughts here), there has been a splurge of coverage about the companies that are positioning themselves as the newspapers’ saviour. The Guardian recently reviewed the startup ecosystem that is forming [...]

As this critical TechCrunch post reports, the American Press Institute has created a plan to save newspapers through a paid-content model.  Techcrunch’s slant might be amusingly derogatory, but there is a very serious issue to solve here, and very few are articulating clearly what are the potential options. Certainly, this “plan” seems to be founded [...]