[MGP-Forum Announce] Is it better to build, not buy, metro news organization?

[Bill Densmore]

Doing some catching up, we just came across MGP2006 alum Barry Parr's Oct. 12, 2006, blog posting about the future of the Los Angeles times. Parr, the Jupiter Research analyst who also is a pioneer local online news community operator with Coastsider.com, suggests it is now better to build, not buy, a metropolitan news organization. Is he right?

See:
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/parr/archives/2006/10/dismantling_the.html