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Cyril Pereira
Jan 11, 2012
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Circulation increase became a key metric to leverage advertising rates. It generated disproportionate advertising revenue leverage against the cost of the copy sales growth. This was a bonanza that allowed newspapers net profit margins of 20-25% for decades.

It was too good to last. The Internet disrupted the paid news model and severed generational rene…

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