From the “director of innovation” at Tribune Co., which is innovating away about 150 newsroom jobs at the LA Times:
Favourite quote: (Actually one of the more lucid quotes, but still charming in its own way): “Maybe Book sections in newspapers are just dated. Not the idea…but the look and feel. Maybe they’re modeled after a book store in 1967 whereas we’re in the Borders, Amazon, B&N era. Maybe they are too scholarly. Maybe they avoid genres like Christian books, Celebrity books and Popular novels, opting instead for reviews of the Philippine Socialist Movement in the 1800’s.”
FILED UNDER: shop talk the boss has gone to the bad place again Tribune Co.