Warren Buffett: Release Me
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When News Is News
Who knew? News is hot. Like the old days when most blogs were about blogging, it seems most of the industry news of late is about news. – Knight Ridder continues to draw attention after dissident shareholders demanded the sale of the company, but apparently nothing in the price range the ...
Read MoreNumbers Behind TimesSelect Refine the News Picture
Outsell affiliate analyst Ken Doctor notes that last week was full of terrifying headlines for the newspaper industry: Circulation drops 2.6 percent nationally! E-Papers will replace print – soon! Google Automat revealed! Against that background, a report about the progress of TimesSelect ...
Read MoreKnight Ridder Scenarios
Even after years of cutbacks, divestitures, and other moves to satisfy Wall Street, Knight Ridder was given notice this week by Private Capital Management, a 19 percent shareholder, that the clock has run out. PCM wants a sale or breakup of Knight Ridder. Outsell Affiliate Analyst Ken Doctor ...
Read MoreThinking Out Loud About News/Ad Reconnections
Outsell affiliate analyst Ken Doctor notes that amid widespread pessimism about the future of the newspaper industry, a silver lining might be found in some new ways that content is being recombined with advertising. On the Web, news/feature content has been divorced from the advertising that ...
Read MoreIn Outsell’s Opinion: Thinking Out Loud About the Next Wave of Challenges for Newspapers
Last week a report in the newsletter Classified Intelligence confirmed rumors that Google would like to aggregate classified listings and move them into its main search results. It is in talks with possible partners such as CareerBuilder to aggregate listings from the paid listings sites. This ...
Read MoreThe Content-Producing Engines Are Sputtering
The geese that lay the golden eggs of digital content are going on a diet. The likelihood of cuts extending into the newsroom is something that Outsell has been commenting on publicly in recent weeks. Newsroom staff tightening coupled with declining print circulation is nothing new. Both have ...
Read MoreThe NY Times Selects a New Revenue Plan; Nisenholtz Says It
This week The New York Times launched its new
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