Cold comfort : lessons for the twenty-first-century newspaper industry from the twentieth-century ice industry

• Main Authors: Duffy, Andrew, Ling, Richard Seyler, Westlund, Oscar
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism; Newspapers; Innovation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82292; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47990
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

First cut from frozen lakes and later manufactured on an industrial scale, ice was, in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, big business. The arrival of domestic refrigeration spelled the end of this industry. The rise and fall of the ice industry offers lessons to the modern newspaper indust...