April 19, 2024
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Important Details: Announcements are coming fast and furious at the New York Times, especially in and around its digital operations. The Gray Lady is getting a makeover, seemingly day by day. Given its April earnings announcement, which followed a poor first quarter, that makeover can’t ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Microsoft moved to take a small seat at the recruitment table, acquiring a 4% stake in CareerBuilder (CB). CB is the largest U.S. recruitment site by listings, by unique visitors and by U.S. revenue, though Monster Worldwide has an edge in revenue globally. The third ...
Read MoreImportant Details: NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen has been working on ways to involve the public in journalism creation for more than a decade. Now his AssignmentZero has captured attention – and the interest of journalism companies. Assignment Zero is the first project of ...
Read MoreImportant Details: News Corporation’s bid for Dow Jones, made to its board more than two weeks ago, became public last week. The size of the offer amazed markets and observers of the earnings-challenged newspaper industry: $5 billion or $60 per share, a 65% premium over Dow Jones’ ...
Read MoreImportant Details: In a report released Monday, the U.S. newspaper industry saw no stanching of its lifeblood loss, as print circulation continued its downward spiral with only 3 of the top 20 papers reporting increases. The numbers were all too familiar. In a report released Monday, the Audit ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have long enjoyed one of the few remaining newspaper wars in American mid-sized cities. The war’s been a journalistic one, but things have taken a nasty turn, especially with the recent filing of a lawsuit. In that civil ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It’s the kind of news news companies didn’t want to report: The growth in online revenue is slowing. That slowing was indicated in the flurry of quarterly earnings reports. Many headlines about overall performance pointed to a drop in net, or in the case of the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Gatehouse Media has been a contrarian surprise in a newspaper market in which there are more would-be sellers than buyers. The company’s been on a buying binge for a couple of years, recently announcing the purchase of four smaller dailies from Gannett. When that sale ...
Read MoreImportant Details: After a decade of pushing and shoving, 12 major U.S. newspaper companies have finally forged an all-encompassing network, embracing both editorial content and advertising sales. The network’s key partner and technology driver is Yahoo!, which has wooed the newspaper ...
Read MoreImportant Details: All of a sudden the Chicago media scene is an uproar. The Tribune Company’s ownership is changing hands, surfacing many questions about the hometown Tribune. Now the scrappy tabloid Chicago Sun-Times is moving forward on a number of fronts, multiplying its offering to ...
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