Billion dollar bye bye
Posted in journalism, news business, online news business, tagged alan mutter, Chicago Tribune, Classified Intelligence, Craigslist, Gordon Borrell, help wanted, Hot Jobs, Monster.com, newspaper classifieds, recruitment, Will Rogers on February 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I come from the “follow-the-money” school of journalism, so I’ve written about more than my share of billions over the years. But Alan Mutter took my breath away with his post cataloging the staggering volume of dollars that have fled newspaper help wanted, or so-called “recruitment” ads.
Newspapers have lost more than half of their print [...]