May 5, 2024
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It's coming in the largest stimulus package in US history. $100 billion, are you kidding? $300 billion? How about $500 or $700 billion? That stimulus, combined with other economic recovery programs, gives newspaper companies a new shot at ...
# Is Huff Post more than a national brand? Does it really have much resonance around local for its readers? Smart aggregation certainly makes sense in concept, but news aggregators have seen relatively slow audience growth. People are busy and ...
A veteran journalist close to CNN, she has put the wire initiative in perspective: "CNN is positioned really well. They want to do good journalism....They're positioned globally. They have the TV world wrapped up and are now getting into the ...
I'm assuming Gannett, good operator that it is, real does have a handle on how much of its business is really digital and how much legacy, print or broadcast. But I'm not sure. In addition, it's clear that many newspaper companies as they ...
Publishers can flip that switch, or, as many are contemplating, ease it increasingly from one position to another. It's no longer a theoretical question: by 2015, I believe we'll be living in a mainly digital/a little print world. There are six ...
One big reason the numbers are declining is the product itself. In the last year, we've seen unprecedented cuts in the product -- and the customers are noticing. It looks like the amount of newsprint is down about 10-15%; some in stories, some ...
If the newspaper industry was on thin ice a month ago, the financial meltdown has meant that the creaking and cracking is getting more audible. Think of it as a triple whammy for an industry used to declaring itself the victim of a perfect ...
What's important is getting quickly beyond that first edition we've all been trained to concentrate on and onto the infinite editions that we and our audiences can now create using the journalism already created. More knowledge, more products ...
Let's compare that to what to what CBS earns on air. We can estimate that Katie Couric's third-rated newscast charges aboout $40,000 for each of its 16 or so 30-second ads, or about $640,000 in total for each night’s show. (On average, ...
Open your windows, and you can almost hear a muted "Yahoo!," wafting out of the windows of many newspaper buildings across the land this week. "Yahoo!," as in the long-awaited launch of the ready-for-newspaper-integration ad ...
