Romenesko

Slate
Jack Shafer says newspapers are mortified by the creative destruction of changing markets, so they take only tiny and confused steps -- mostly backwards. "Years after the Web had made newspaper stock tables obsolete, the dailies started to prune and discontinue them, but how many added something of greater value in the form of new columnists or graphs that explained changing markets? Bloomberg's genius, and I don't use that term lightly, was to exploit how deeply people who need information will dig into their pockets to pay for it."