April 25, 2024
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Important Details: As newspaper financial reports descend farther into the doldrums, many observers are asking what’s coming next, what will fill a vacuum forming as newspaper companies slim down and produce less content. The answers are slow in coming, but we see lots of signs – ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The numbers were impressive. In two years, the New York Times had built a sizable paid subscription product, gaining 227,000 paying customers ($49.95 a year) and helping retain 471,000 print subscribers who had signed up (for free) for TimesSelect. In addition, a more recent ...
Read MoreImportant Details: When long-time Star Tribune editor and publisher Joel Kramer exited the newspaper business in 1998, he hadn’t a glimmer of what he is now doing one decade later: launching an online news start-up. But the peculiar times journalism lives in has driven him in back into ...
Read MoreImportant Details: In some areas, real estate markets have slowed appreciably, with sellers outnumbering buyers and credit getting squeezed. But for online editions of newspapers, there’s a hyper-local gold rush going on. In just the past couple of weeks, at least three news companies ...
Read MoreImportant Details: In a move described as “table-setting,” Gannett has formally launched mobile sites in more than 100 U.S. markets, 84 of them daily newspaper markets and 19 of them broadcast TV markets, in addition to its national site USAToday. The new sites are templated, with ...
Read MoreImportant Details: This week Factiva will launch its multimedia service, allowing its customers to access video and audio segments beside text stories when keyword searches are done through the research service. The new service is powered by Everyzing (formerly Podzinger), which does the heavy ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Rupert Murdoch’s will, and savvy last-minute deal-making, has won him the prize long coveted. The acquisition of Dow Jones by News Corp. is now all but a formality. In May, News Corp had surprised the company and the industry with its outsized 65% premium on the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Audience-FAX is the U.S. newspaper industry’s latest push to promote “reach,” capturing audience in print and online and proving its utility in the increasingly digital age. The product brings together data in a new packaged format, so that advertising ...
Read MoreImportant Details: After two months of public posturing and private negotiating, News Corp. is poised to complete its $5 billion purchase of Dow Jones. The terms of the offer – $60 per share – remained largely unchanged during the negotiation, but News Corp. did agree to an ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It’s an ad insert easy to miss. Slipped into a daily edition of The New York Times this week is a four-page circular for the Times itself. “Now your Times subscription gives you All Access,” says the first page. But it is pages two and three that tell the ...
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