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Howard Owens (respected new-media thinker, until recently director of digital publishing at GateHouse media) blogs about how poor understanding of the evolution of newspapers make news leaders less able to deal with the challenges news faces now.

Believing that newspapers 150 years ago where the same as they are now can blind people to how they must change now.

The assumption, in my perception, is pervasive, and it colors the view of today’s journalist toward development of online news; in fact, the assumption may have blinded many executives (including online executives, including myself for a time) in their expectations how to build an online news business.
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James Gordon Bennett, Horace Greeley, E.W. Scripps and Joseph Pulitzer were not just earlier versions of Woodward and Bernstein. They were entrepreneurs, visionaries and risk takers who experimented and explored the capabilities of new technologies with a goal of meeting readers needs and growing audience.
— Newspapers started small, cheap and with different standards Howard Owens 24 Jun 2009

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