Newspapers

Posted on June 21, 2006
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News that Robert DeNiro is thinking of buying the New York Observer is a high profile example but some commentators are saying newspapers' response to the internet will be: go back into private hands.

"Between analysts delivering ominous forecasts about the future of print media and the chaos of messy media group breakups, the American newspaper industry is going through turbulent times. From this uncertainty, a pattern is slowly emerging: the delisting of newspapers."

Privately owned: A way out for US newspapers? - Editors Weblog- Analysis

But could it be back to the days when the likes of the Astors owned the Times and Observer in London and Newsweek in the USA?

Nobody seems too worried right now as newspapers are looking around for solutions and in some cases paying silly amounts of money for online properties.

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