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andreessen: ‘kill the print edition’

"Stop the presses tomorrow," said Mark Andreessen in a recent interview regarding what he's do with print editions of your favorite newspaper. "There is no value in these stock prices attributable to print anymore at all. It’s gone."

do newspapers have a shot at survival?

news from around the recruitosphere

By Joel Cheesman - Here are some noteworthy links covering more doom and gloom layoffs, Monster's plunging stock, and some great presentations from Onrec 2008.

wsj outlines newspaper plight

From today’s Wall Street Journal: 1. Print-ad revenue suffered biggest decline since “at least 1950″ in 2007. 2. Classified ads, third of total, was down almost 17% last year. 3. Gannett Co. saw an 8.3% fall in same-newspaper ad revenue compared to Feb. of 2007. 4. McClatchy’s ad revenue fell 13% in Feb. 5. Media General reported a near [...]