December 3, 2017
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#210 Why Newspapers Don’t Have to Die
And why you can't just blame Google and Facebook for what happened last week.
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Kevin Sexton
Producer

After 34 newspapers were abruptly killed by Postmedia and Torstar last week, Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey made the case that it was just part of an inevitable decline in the industry.

Chris Powell vehemently disagrees. After cutting his teeth at a community newspaper, Powell spent a career covering the news business in trade publications like Strategy and Marketing Magazine. He’s spoken to the publishers and executives, he’s studied the business models and he says there is a path forward.

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