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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
       |w(DLC)  2017046429 
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