http://vaginarino.org/News/google%E2%80%99s-chief-economist-%E2%80%9Cnewspapers-have-never-made-much-money-from-news%E2%80%9D/ Earlier today, Google chief economist Hal Varian. gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics. of the newspaper industry. We all know that newspaper ad revenues have been falling off a cliff. for years. Many media companies blame Google. and are trying to put the genie back in the bottle with partial metered models. for online news. Google is understandably on the defensive, t... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:53:58 CST en