April 18, 2024
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Important Details: MediaNews, which has emerged as the fastest-growing large US newspaper publisher (now with 57 dailies), has chosen Topix to be its main community-building partner on the web. It has already launched Topix community functionality on several of its New England properties and ...
Read MoreImportant Details: This week, the Copyright Clearance Center, with a strong reach into both enterprise and academic areas for the re-use and sharing of news content, announced that it is adding something new to its extensive database of licensable content: blogs. CCC will license about 1000 ...
Read MoreImportant Details: What may at first look like a day’s worth of alphabet soup may tell us more about the re-development of local news media. On November 13, two organizations meaningful to US local media, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Audit Bureau of Circulation ...
Read MoreImportant Details: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has stirred up a dormant hornet’s nest. He’s proposed relaxing decades-old rules on local media cross-ownership, and doing it before the end of the year. Currently, media owners are largely prohibited from owning both a daily newspaper ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The online entertainment guide business, a battleground of the ’90s, now sees a new generation of competitors emerging. That competition was emphasized by this week’s announcement that Gannett is investing in and taking on a 50% interest in the new Metromix, LLC. ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The BBC is remaking itself in a new six-year plan, pushed by lower core revenues and an audience moving to the internet. It cited this backdrop to the announcements: “The BBC News website is reaching a weekly unique average of six million users in the UK. BBC mobile has ...
Read MoreImportant Details: In launching this week, Fox Business Network (FBN) will set off small near-term marketplace jolts, but its advent – combined with parent News Corp.’s acquisition of Dow Jones – promises to be part of the re-shaping of business journalism for the multi-media, ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Come March 2008, there will be a new mega news site unveiled in Japan. So far unnamed, the site will provide easy access to the stories of three top news brands, Yomiuri, Asahi, and Nikkei. Yomiuri and Asahi are both general interest national dailies, commanding circulation ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Belo Corporation, a company with long newspaper roots and an owner of 20 mostly high-ranking TV stations across the U.S., is splitting the corporate baby in two. In a restructuring, Belo will become two companies. Belo Corporation will retain the broadcast properties, while ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Outsell forecasts the global News segment will drop 2.5% in revenues for 2007 to $131.3 billion, and then show deeper declines of 3.1% in 2008 to $127.2 billion, 3.1% in 2009 to $123.3 billion, and 3.0% in 2010 to $119.6 billion. That results in a negative CAGR of 2.9% over ...
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