By Joe Ciarallo

BusinessWeek.com Executive Editor/Editor-in-Chief John A. Byrne began his talk at Mediabistro Circus today citing management expert Jim Collins and his “five stages of corporate decline.” He said the media business is currently in stage 4: “grasping for salvation.”
Byrne said any new business model, “won’t be one thing, it will be a lot of [...]

By Jeff Jarvis
At Jim Collins‘ event for his new book at BusinessWeek last night, a former journalist turned business exec asked why no one was snapping up newspapers now that their market caps are worth practically nothing. They have powerful local brands, don’t they? he asked. Don’t they?
The first reason no one wants to buy [...]