April 29, 2024
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Important Details: Earlier this year, about a dozen Gannett papers set off on quest, testing what they could learn from unprecedented interaction with their communities. Three of them — in Des Moines, Sioux Falls and Melbourne (FL) –went furthest. And, now Gannett has embraced their ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Newspaper executives have been asking themselves the question: can it get worse? Their answer became clear over the past month. Print circulation, down 2 percent-plus in each report since early 2005, slid further. Sunday circulation, the revenue bellwether, is getting ...
Read MoreImportant Details: With all the activity announced and in the works, the SIIA Content Division’s session on "Successful Deals with Google and Yahoo, held last week in New York City, was timely. Discussion of actual, successful partnerships was meager. But in panelists’ remarks, ...
Read MoreWhat We’re Seeing: In this election season, we can see how much politicians are doing an end-around traditional news media to reach citizens directly and tell their story (or their opponents’) more directly. They are using the tools of user-generated content and campaign-taken ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Newspaper giant Gannett announced Wednesday sub par quarterly earnings. Adjusting reporting to exclude papers gained in an exchange with Knight Ridder in 2005, the numbers reinforced the woes of the industry as a whole and signaled new weakness. Overall, third-quarter ...
Read MoreImportant Details: In one statistic, you can feel the pain of the Tribune Company and the newspaper industry overall. Back in 2000, when times seemed optimistic, the Tribune swallowed Times Mirror, vaulting itself into becoming a national newspaper company. It paid $8 billion (including debt ...
Read MoreImportant Details About Go! Session "Rightsourcing in a Flat World": Flat-worlders unite, and take a better-rounded view of your opportunity, Robert Frazzini told Go! Conference attendees this week. Yes, the world has created unparalleled ability to move work around the world, 24/7, ...
Read MoreImportant Details About Go! Conference Session "News": It’s the bedrock, foundation, and platform for just about all segments, audiences, and types of advertisers in the information industry. It’s under a perfect storm of pressure, making headlines about itself daily. This ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It’s just two years until the Peking Olympics, the centerpiece of China’s coming-out party. Official news out on Sunday reminded that the run-up to that event will be filled with overtures, greetings, warnings and threats. Just as Google, Yahoo!, eBay and ...
Read MoreImportant Details: News sites have been slow to optimize their deep content for mobile, though the reach of mobile is impressive and growing at a great clip. Now the New York Times has joined the ranks of the optimized. Announced last week, the Times, partnered with Starcut, has now mobilized ...
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