John Kimball
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John Kimball
John Kimballwas a New Hampshire and Vermont attorney and politician who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and the Vermont House of Representatives. He also served as President of the Vermont State Senate...
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We want to surprise the advertising industry with the facts and truth about newspapers.
array believe brand core includes leading local looked market product products readership site web
We believe that readership and circulation need to be looked at in tandem because today's newspaper's brand includes not just the core product but the leading local web site and an array of other products in that market as well.
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About 18 to 20 percent of the newspapers that reported had gains and most of those were smaller-market newspapers.
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Newspapers have been working very hard in coming up with a lot of thousand-dollar answers to the million-dollars problem,
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That's not happy news, ... It's vital to see these numbers as part of the bigger audience picture.
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I think it is a real stretch to say the decline of department store advertising has forced layoffs at any one newspaper.
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There are serious issues that the industry's facing, but we're certainly not burying our heads in the sand. There's a great deal of experimentation going on -- with youth, with free distribution, with different editorial content models. Stuff that works is hanging around, and stuff that doesn't work isn't.