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Published in TZ Latest News 1 May, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff

The News Industry Isn’t Dead… But Has 1 Foot In The Grave

Journalism and investment research have a lot in common, notes ConvergEx’s Nick Colas; after all, both essentially ask the customer to freely part with three scarce resources: time, attention and money. It’s been a tough decade or two for both the newsroom and the research department in that effort, but at least one prominent venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen, thinks there is a future for the news business, however, due to a rising middle class in emerging markets and mobile Internet distribution.

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