DFM bloodletting continues

Raise $100 million so you can buy the paper and provide it some financial runway, then we can talk.

You need to spend some money on the front end to have any chance of making it on the back end.

 

Does the Post do everything there? Gather, circulate, design and print? Is the Post used by any other DFM properties for necessary functions?

 

Sorry, I should’ve read the link. I hear about all these people who want to buy papers, but what then? It frustrates me, that’s all. John Henry, one of those vaunted saviors of journalism, bought the Boston Globe and since then has sliced about 20 or 25 percent off what already was a thin newsroom. And they have an ongoing mini-disaster with their new print site and had a disaster changing home delivery providers. The Washington Post does have an apparently successful strategy, but only maybe four other news outlets in the country can replicate it.

 

I am 99.99% sure that the DFM properties in Loveland, Boulder and Longmont print in Denver. Those papers also provide some content for the Post, such as CU football.

I read the Ken Doctor blog and he said the profitability of the Post is debatable. The Post is not that profitable but that a lot of overhead from the other papers and the corporate offices which are located in Denver is charged to the Post P@L.

 

A Denver bureau. That's awesome. Best way to describe this shit show.

 

The Rocky Mountain Highs and Ignominious Lows of a Local Sports Section

 

Holy crap, that was a great read.