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CNTI’s Business Success Initiative Framework Case Study
This case study is a component of the Business Success Initiative Framework, designed to help you build a strong, future-forward news and information business. Each in-depth cross-industry case study explores the challenges, successes and shortcomings businesses and organizations are facing today.
Context
Founded in 1871, the Salt Lake Tribune operated for almost a century and a half as Utah’s largest daily newspaper. Its trajectory through the 2010s followed the familiar arc of print journalism: hedge-fund acquisition, successive rounds of staff cuts, falling advertising revenue, and a progressively weakening newsroom voice. The case is significant because the Tribune did not merely survive that arc; it reorganized around a different theory of its own value.
Disruption
The disruption to the Tribune was the structural one that reshaped print journalism generally. Digital platforms absorbed the advertising economics, particularly classified and display advertising, that had funded newsrooms;…
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- Full stage-by-stage analysis
- Legacy vs. redesigned model comparison
- Considerations specific to journalism
