Comments on: 5 Things Newspapers Could Learn from ‘Paperboy’

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Ranking newspaper Web sites for innovation | Save the Media — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:35:21 +0000

[...] bit of fun: Last week, I tweeted a link to SUNY Brockport journalism professor Marsha Ducey’s fun post about Paperboy, a video game from the 1980s. In case you missed the tweet, here’s a recap: She offers a [...]

By: marducey

marducey — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:46:12 +0000

Thanks for your comments.

By: David

David — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:29:49 +0000

Cute angle, but:

1. “The paper version has to have something different than online OR you have to start charging for online stories like you do the paper version.”

Every paper — including the venerated New York Times — tried this. Didn’t work. It’s like Jay-Z’s response to iTunes: utter fail.

2. Paperboy the video game was never that popular and is now defunct.