Weighing in
Richard Anderson is the founder and chief executive officer of Village NetMedia and VillageSoup. Occasionally he likes to weigh in with his view of current activity in his community and industry.
Richard is a disruptor, effecting change first as a mathematics teacher in Iowa, then as a developer of elementary and high school textbooks collaborating with the nation's leading textbook publishers, and now as an entrepreneur in the emerging digital news industry.
Richard resides in Camden and holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Northern Iowa, and a doctorate in administration of educational research and information systems from the University of Iowa. He is a graduate of the Harvard University Business School Owner/President Management Program.
He publishes a Sustainable Journalism Blog directed to the newspaper industry.
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Weighing In
Tack, Jibe, Tack
By Richard Anderson - Jul 27I got a big thrill last weekend when a 21-year-old who grew up in the area and was back from a year studying in Turkey told me he remembered k2Bh. ...
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Embracing a new technology
Nov 20Calls for a new business model are frequent for the legacy newspaper industry. The reasons are apparent. The Newspaper Association of America ...
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A response to 'Good Newspapers will Survive and Thrive'
By Richard M. Anderson - Sep 29Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, Joe Smyth, CEO of the nonprofit Independent Newspapers, Inc., and Newszap.com wrote an article, "Good Newspapers will ...
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Addressing a broken society
By Richard M. Anderson - Apr 28"The United States is becoming a broken society. The public has contempt for the political class. Public debt is piling up at an astonishing and ...
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Learning is the way up
Dec 01These facts recently cited by Arne Duncan, U.S. Education Secretary, and Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, provides sobering evidence that it ...
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Will newspapers die?
By Richard Anderson - Nov 13That is the question we are all asking. Since 1997, my money and efforts have focused on a vision where the answer to this question is "Yes, ...
Re-localizing the economy
By Richard Anderson - May 05I wrote on March 24 about our broken society, referring to the work of the British writer Phillip Blond and a New York Times David Brooks column. ...
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Les Otten's claims and record
By Richard Anderson - Mar 10Marian McCue and John Christie in this week's article "Risky business: Les Otten and the rise and fall of American Skiing Co." take Mr. Otten to ...
