April 29, 2024
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Important Details: With the New Year, the Wall Street Journal launched its re-ordering of its flagship print and online properties. Readers saw the tangible product changes, the result of more than a year of planning. It began with Dow Jones fundamental leadership shifts and then in its ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Want to promote your online news site? Want to look cool in doing it? Publishers might normally call a meeting, discuss it at length and issue an RFP for a with-it marketing company to come up with something fresh.TheFirstPost, a London-based original news-and-commentary ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Coming to a Congressional capital near you: it’s the Politico. The Politico, coming to ThePolitico.com on Jan. 23, the day of the President’s State-of-the-Union speech, is intended to fully embrace the Web as a way of getting out political news and analysis. ...
Read MoreImportant Details: With both print circulation and advertising volume down, the newspaper industry is largely moving forward with standard price increases going into 2007. Major publishers report three to six percent increases in ad rates in the major categories of national, retail and ...
Read MoreImportant Details: How good is that story you read this morning? Was it clear, fair, balanced? Did you learn something? Is it something you want to pass along to friends and associates? With the launch of its new site, NewsTrust aims to harness the judgment, if not the wisdom, of crowds ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The newspaper industry approaches 2007, staring down unusually unpleasant budget numbers. Flat-lining print advertising revenues have produced some of the tightest expense budgets in recent history, on top of this year’s staff and newsprint cutbacks. Against that ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Dow Jones told its staff Thursday that all the talk of doing things differently in the digital age would make real change in their work lives. A memo to staff, published on Jim Romanesko’s Poynter, says Dow Jones is moving forward with streamlining news roles within the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: After 18 months of protracted negotiation, seven of the largest U.S. newspaper companies have come to terms with Yahoo! on a potentially far-reaching agreement. That deal touches some 13 of the nation’s 15 largest markets and somewhat less than a quarter of the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: In a week of moving and shaking in the news syndication world, the Reuters-Pluck announcement stands out. Reuters raised both eyebrows of many observers with its two-part deal. First, it invested $7 million into Pluck, assuming an unannounced stake in the syndication and ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Google made two announcements last week, both solidifying the notion that it aims to be a central and omnipresent advertising presence. On Monday, the company announced agreements with 50 U.S. daily newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Tribune ...
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