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# On journalism and scale
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2012/11/on_journalism_and_scale/
- Published: 2012-11-09T12:01:55.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:48:11.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: business models, Journalism, overheads, Publishing

[Felix Salmon](http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/06/the-ft-in-play/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> And there’s another inconvenient fact for would-be acquirers of the FT: journalism doesn’t have economies of scale. The bigger that journalistic organizations become, the less efficient they get: salaries rise, new layers of editors and managers appear, and per-person budgets grow all everywhere, for everything from IT to travel expenses. Journalism is a world of diminishing returns: size matters, but it’s also very expensive.

One of the biggest single problem traditional publishers face in the digital transition…