http://www.corante.com/rebuildingmedia/archives/2005/09/21/newspapers_meet_precipice_its_the_product_stupid.php They call it Black Tuesday at the New York Times and Boston Globe where the layoffs come because the margins are squeezed. The don't even have a name for the buy-outs at the defiantly anti-margin San Francisco Chronicle, where leadership... en-us http://chewshop.typepad.com/weblog/2005/09/what_if_newspap.html Bob Cauthorn asks what if.......newspapers were to become product focused rather than brand focused? The old modes of thinking will crumble. The print problem and the digital opportunity will be viewed as separate, but entwined, issues. Digital media w... http://www.thefutureofwork.net/blog/archives/000347.html Hylton Joliffe of Corante just sent me a link to a fascinating commentary on the print news industry that was just posted by Bob Cauthorn ("Newspapers, meet precipice: It's the product, stupid") at Corante's Rebuilding Media blog. The article was... http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2005/09/newspaper_circu.html Bob Cauthorn, former GM of SFGate, in Corante today: Newspapers, meet precipice: It's the product, stupid. He uses Tuesday's announcement of 500 layoffs at the New York Times/Boston Globe/IHT as the jumping-off point for an essay on the newspaper reade... http://newpersuasion.typepad.com/new_persuasion/2005/09/newspapers_bad_.html The New York Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle are all laying off or buying-out employees. Not good. Johnnie Moore at Brandshift talks about the post over at Rebuilding Media called: Newspapers, meet precipice: It's th...