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050 00 PN4867.2|b.K46 2018
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100 1 Kennedy, Dan,|d1956-|eauthor.
245 14 The return of the moguls :|bhow Jeff Bezos and John Henry
are remaking newspapers for the twenty-first century /
|cDan Kennedy.
264 1 Lebanon, NH :|bForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of
New England,|c[2018]
300 281 pages ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-270) and
index.
505 0 Introduction: The rise and fall of newspapers in a time of
turmoil -- The swashbuckler: Jeff Bezos puts his stamp on
a legendary newspaper -- The crux of the matter: John
Henry's culture of experimentation -- Unrequited love:
spurned in Boston and Maine, Aaron Kushner looks west --
This is your brain on the Internet: can news break free of
the distraction machine? -- Getting big fast: how the
Washington Post is becoming the Amazon of news -- The end
of free: The Boston Globe tells readers to pay up --
Orange crush: from California dreaming to an epic
nightmare -- Money isn't everything: why wealthy ownership
doesn't guarantee success -- All in: Jeff Bezos takes his
place as an "enemy of the people" -- Epilogue: The fall
and rise of journalism in the age of Trump.
520 "[This book] chronicles an important story in the making,
one that will affect more than just the newspaper business
--it has the power to change democracy as we know it"--
Amazon.com.
520 The Return of the Moguls chronicles an important story in
the making, one that will affect more than just the
newspaper business - it has the power to change democracy
as we know it. Over the course of a generation, the story
of the daily newspaper has been an unchecked slide from
record profitability and readership to plummeting profits,
increasing irrelevance, and inevitable obsolescence. The
forces killing major dailies, alternative weeklies, and
small-town shoppers are well understood - or seem obvious
in hindsight, at least - and the catalog of publications
that have gone under reads like a who's who of American
journalism. During the past half-century, old-style press
barons gave way to a cabal of corporate interests unable
or unwilling to invest in the future even as technological
change was destroying their core business. The Taylor
family sold the Boston Globe to the New York Times Company
in 1993 for a cool $1.1 billion. Twenty years later, the
Times Company resold it for just $70 million. The
unexpected twist to the story, however, is not what they
sold it for but who they sold it to: John Henry, the
principal owner of the Boston Red Sox. A billionaire who
made his money in the world of high finance, Henry
inspired optimism in Boston because of his track record as
a public-spirited business executive - and because his
deep pockets seemed to ensure that the shrunken newspaper
would not be subjected to further downsizing. In just a
few days, the sale of the Globe was overtaken by much
bigger news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and one of
the world's richest people, had reached a deal to buy the
Washington Post for $250 million. Henry's ascension at the
Globe sparked hope. Bezos's purchase seemed to inspire
nothing short of ecstasy, as numerous observers expressed
the belief that his lofty status as one of our leading
digital visionaries could help him solve the daunting
financial problems facing the newspaper business. Though
Bezos and Henry are the two most prominent individuals to
enter the newspaper business, a third preceded them. Aaron
Kushner, a greeting-card executive, acquired California's
Orange Country Register in July 2012 and then pursued an
audacious agenda, expanding coverage and hiring
journalists in an era when nearly all other newspaper
owners were trying to avoid cutting both. The newspaper
business is at a perilous crossroads. This essential book
explains why, and how today's new crop of media moguls
might help it to survive. -- from dust jacket.
600 10 Bezos, Jeffrey.
600 10 Henry, John,|d1949-
600 10 Kushner, Aaron|c(Private investor)
610 20 Washington Post Company.
630 00 Boston globe.
630 00 Orange County register.
650 0 Newspaper publishing|zUnited States|xHistory|y21st
century.
650 0 Newspaper publishing|xTechnological innovations|zUnited
States.
650 0 Publishers and publishing|zUnited States.
650 0 Journalism|xTechnological innovations|zUnited States.
650 0 Electronic newspapers|zUnited States|xHistory|y21st
century.
776 08 |iOnline version:|aKennedy, Dan, 1956-|tReturn of the
moguls.|dLebanon NH : ForeEdge, [2018]|z9781512601787
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