Posts Tagged ‘ Mort Zuckerman ’

Who would buy a newspaper? Anybody?

May 15th, 2009 | By admin | Category: In The News

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 [...]



Mort Zuckerman’s Plan to Save Newspapers

May 7th, 2009 | By admin | Category: In The News

By Jada Yuan
Mort Zuckerman may be 72 years old, but he’s no fogy when it comes to technology. The Daily News owner is “totally dependent” on his BlackBerry and computer, he told us at last night’s Time 100 gala, and after seeing the Twitter founders speak to the crowd, he vowed to start an account [...]