May 16, 2024
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Today’s announcement that Centro is taking over the Real Cities Network isn’t really an exclamation point. It’s more like a period, marking movement between eras. Centro has brought local news websites significantly more revenue over the past several years. Real Cities, on the ...
Read MoreThere’s little intrigue in Tribune’s second quarter earnings announcement. As the company says, "Our publishing results are, for the most part, in line with industry trends, which remain consistent with what we reported in the first quarter." Such consistency, ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Apple’s new App Store (found in iTunes, through this link) features all kinds of tailored products, all meant to grab some of the popular smartphone’s new users. Publishers may pay special attention to the News channel, but they’ll find scores of intriguing ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It may seem counter-intuitive: cut the size of the print newspaper and the amount of news within it — and raise the prices. However, this seems to be a rapidly growing trend at US daily newspapers. The Wall Street Journal announced that, effective this week, it is ...
Read MoreOut of many memorable quotes from my Knight Ridder days, one keeps bouncing back to me. It came of the company’s mess in Detroit. Knight Ridder had long run the Detroit Free Press, one of the country’s liveliest, most readable papers. But it fell afoul of Detroit’s tough ...
Read MoreSo what do we make of the first half of 2008 in DailyLand? Bad and getting worse. I’ve listened to the CEO webcasts — so you don’t have to! — and must say that there were a couple of eerie echoes of my own suggested remarks, offered a couple of weeks ago ("Candidly, ...
Read MoreLast week’s Gannett’s 2Q report was an auspicious start, with the New York Times due Wednesday and McClatchy Thursday. Start with the fact that Gannett, as both the world’s and US’s largest news company, commands about one of twenty dollars worldwide in the news trade. Add to that, the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: “Mobile” has been one of those just-beyond-the-rainbow potentials for news publishers for many years. Advertising applications have been slower to take root, as have subscriptions for content. Outsell’s new Annual Advertising and Marketing Study (July 14, ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Sky News’ beta website recently launched, showing how the UK’s leading operator of digital pay TV and a major news/sports/entertainment broadcaster is fully embracing the next generation web experience. The new website is graphic rich, devoting much of the top of ...
Read MoreIt’s time for second-quarter newspaper earnings reports, with Gannett leading off Wednesday, with the long tale of woe to follow. Given the many newspaper staff cutbacks, which I thought might include the investor relations people, I’ve put together a few boilerplate remarks that I ...
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