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Could the Chronicle indeed go away? Well, don't expect anyone to buy it. The newspaper market is, to use the kind word, illiquid. Frozen solid by two minor problems: 1) the credit meltdown, which will someday ease; 2) no one knows how to hell to ...
It’s no accident that as the Post Office ponders dropping Saturday delivery, newspapers are pondering the same thing, though Monday and Tuesday are easier targets. The key to all this: cut costs while maintaining current revenues while you ...
What may appear to be a sprint to fix (where is SNL's Keenan Thompson's Mr. Fix-It when the news industry so badly needs his exhortation?) the press is really much more a marathon. And many of us feel like we've been running it for a long time ...
Figure the average newspaper reader spends maybe 10-15 minutes a day with the paper, somewhat more on Sunday. Multiply that out for a month and you get more than four hours of reading per month Figure the average online user spends maybe 10-15 ...
The fact that Carol Bartz' first act was to announce that Sue Decker is out undoubtedly sent a shiver down newspaper spines. Decker and her protege Hilary Schneider, late of Knight Ridder Digital, have been the high-profile champions of the ...
It's a for-profit model, with shareholder stakes for correspondents. As a globally oriented news service, Balboni understands that he's got a huge, potential reader base. The site is targeted to a US reader -- base of 240 million+ -- and then ...
Wouldn't Times readers rather have kept some of the more than 50 editorial staffers let go in the spring, 2008 buyout, and have seen ads pop up earlier on Page One? Wouldn't Washington Post readers gladly trade an ad for a half-dozen or so ...
The biggest moving piece here though is habit. It's elusive. Newspapers' great success and great profits grew out of their dailiness, as addictive as cigarettes, without the nicotine. Readers got used to picking one up daily and advertisers got ...
Buying time, though, is what everyone in the newspaper industry is doing. The New York Times did it today as well, mortgaging its landmark building for $225 million. Scripps is doing it by "selling'' the Rocky Mountain News. All the companies ...
* We've learned that Zell isn't too good with math. He told Portfolio's Joanne Lipman just last month that:
"When we looked at the historical numbers, we saw an average erosion of about 3 percent. At the time we underwrote the transaction, we ...
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