A plan for a US newspaper industry counterattack against disruptive innovators

Strategy and Leadership

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-26

  Sterling, John ^a  

^a Smock Sterling Strategic Management Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Competitive strategy; Innovation; Newspapers

Indexed keywords

EID: 37848999968     PISSN: 10878572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10878570810840652     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press, 1997).
2. The Innovator's Solution, Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor (Harvard Business School Press, 2003).
3. What is Newspaper Next?; American Press Institute web link: http://www.newspapernext.org/2006/08/what_is_newspaper_next_1.htm
4. Op. cit.; Christensen and Raynor, 2003.
5. New York Times, edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin, "Craigslist meets the Capitalists", December 8, 2006
6. http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/ craigslist-meets-the-capitalists/?ex= 1166590800&en=e69c48b82935efc1&ei=5070&emc=eta1
7. API and Innosight, N2 Innovation Methodology, 2006.
8. API, Newspaper Next: The Transformation Project, Blueprint for Transformation, Fall 2006.
9. Donald Kron, Inland Press Institute, National Cost and Revenue Study, Spring 2007.
10. Company Annual Reports and 10-K filings (McClatchy, Gannet, Belo, Tribune).
11. Universal McCann, US Advertising Volume 2000-2005, http://universalmccann.com/downloads/reports/US_AdvertisingVolume.pdf
12. Pew Research Center, Biennial News Consumption Survey.
13. Ibid.
14. The McKinsey Quarterly, Andre Dua and Liz Hilton Segel, "What consumers want from online news", August 2007, web link.