Business model

Frontier Airlines comes to town

And by town, I mean Charlotte and not Concord. Four day a week (Monday/Wednesday/Thursday/Sunday) service to Trenton, NJ (TTN) starting on February 12, 2014 on a 138-seat Airbus A319. Trenton…

The Great Unbundling

The traditional news media is in decline. Many conservatives think this is both a good thing and the result of a populace that is increasingly rejecting its traditional biases. JLF…

Business Week: Postal Service Continues To Bleed Money

I wonder what else has to occur before the USPS is considered a business model that simply doesn’t work. Thanks to the Web, the economic downturn, and some stringent budgetary…

Saving the old media outlets

If you’ve followed with interest this forum’s discussion about the future of media, you might enjoy reading a short piece in the latest Newsweek that features the observations of British…

The news media?s future

Those interested in the future outlook for mass media might be interested in The Atlantic?s new cover story, in which James Fallows discusses the impact of recent changes: One by…

Google’s motivations

Shooting for the Moon in Denver

Let’s see if I have this straight. Thirty former Rocky Mountain News refugees are offering their services for a minimum of $3m. per year in subscription revenue. There would also…

Hurry! "Free" Convention Center Space Uptown!

This development is pretty funny, but the CRVA is not giving away “free” space. Local taxpayers pay for the convention center with the hospitality taxes they pay each and every…

From Daily to 3-Days a Week in Detroit

So. It begins. The inevitable shift away from daily print newspapers in large metro areas starts in depressed Detroit. And because it is Detroit, the execs making the change are…

Now These Are Creative Entrepreneurs

I love business people who see opportunity and aren’t afraid to take risks and do something a bit different. From the June 9 issue of Fortune comes the clever business…

Our Clueless Media Titans

Ed Cone helpfully points me to this erstwhile report on the state of American journalism, and me — I point and laugh. Where do these people come from — and…

Piss-poor deal?

In today’s N&R Ideas section, JLF’s Michael Lowrey takes a closer look at the Skybus deal: For business travelers, time is a very valuable commodity — and Skybus just isn’t…