This is a difficult time for newspapers. There is a premium on good ideas and fast execution. That's where I can help your team do their best work. If you have a newspaper problem that
you're wrestling with then I can probably help you. However big or small your problem is, get in touch.
I've set up an online bookshop with interesting and useful newspaper related books sorted into tidy useful categories. It's handy if you want to see what's out there but don't have time to plough through Amazon for hours. Same deal - I get a few cents if you buy via the store so dive in and sniff the ink.
Sniffer Dog
John Duncan no longer has an owner but is house trained and consults for newspapers around the world. His specialism is competitive strategy, innovation and change. He also enjoys barking at conferences and J schools. John learned his trade in the UK. He worked for the Guardian as a Rottweiler (sports news correspondent) before ending up as the managing editor of the Observer. In six years as ME of the paper it gained 100,000 readers and was $18 million a year better off. Possibly a total coincidence. Possibly a heroic solo effort. Probably somewhere in between.
The People of Japan Who just can't get enough newspapers and who are an example to us all.
Andy Kessler (for pointing out that electronic pipes may not be as defensible an information asset as a print brand and a boy on a bike)
Ben Bradlee
(for being mad as hell and refusing to take it any more)
Lenny Kravitz
(for services to lyrical newspaper management theory)