May 1, 2024
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Important Details: It’s no time for timid moves in the fast-changing world of media, as two recent announcements prove. The two unrelated actions, one with global aims while the other has a local focus, show that some see opportunities while others have focused on retrenchment: ...
Read MoreIf you’ve seen a bit of Bloomberg TV or heard Bloomberg Radio or been in front of one of its terminals, you may have recently wondered: Why isn’t it doing more with what it has? Its reporters are some of the fastest moving on the web, and know data better than most covering the ...
Read MoreI’ve long compared the cable and phone companies on the one hand to the newspaper companies on the other. Newspaper companies saw there business being upended by the Internet, made small bets and have lost out on the big ad growth the web has generated. Telephone companies — the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: A bidding war for a daily newspaper? That headline has surprised many observers over the last several weeks, as three serious bidders push up the price of Newsday, the Long Island-based New York daily that the Tribune company has put on the block. The top bid is now ...
Read MoreConsider the new Big City American journalism and the emerging cast of characters owning it. It’s a page right out of the history books when a few well-heeled titans controlled the press, and its new incarnation could have all kinds of implications for the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, for ...
Read MoreIt’s easy to get lost in the current era of Big Man in Town Journalism. Zell. Singleton, Murdoch. Tierney. Harte. So much of the recent drama in newspaper ownership change has been driven by personality, as keep-it-in-road, rationale profit-seeking companies turn up their noses at the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Wires services have their own tough slog in the changing news landscape these days. The Associated Press‘ recent travails tell volumes about the state of the news industry itself, and pose intriguing questions regarding its networked future. Consider the news coming out ...
Read MoreHow fast can you paddle? That’s the unabated message of today’s ABC FAS FAX circulation numbers being reported. They cover the six-month period, through March 31. Overall, the water keeps rising: 3.5% down daily, and 4.5% down Sunday. Those are in line with what we’ve now seen ...
Read MoreLast week, I talked to a veteran reporter wondering — of course — who might buy his struggling metro paper. We went through the possible names and then arrived at Murdoch. "At least, he’s a newspaperman," the reporter hopefully offered. That’s what we’re ...
Read MoreImportant Details: When more than a dozen newpaper companies agreed to form a consortium with Yahoo! last year, they found that agreeing to work together was one thing. Managing the logistics among members and with Yahoo! was quite another. So, after much discussion, consortium members turned ...
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