May 18, 2024
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Today's announcement that the USA Today is falling on its own grenade, blowing itself up, taking casualties (130 layoffs) and taking an increasingly familiar digital-first, print-last path makes historic sense.
News Corp.'s Avatar has taken in $2.75 billion. Compare that financial flexibility with the Times, and it’s night and day. The Times Co.’s total 2009 revenues: $2.4 billion, less than Avatar itself has produced.
“Where we’ve found inspiration is Internet retail, not publishing,” he told me last week. “We’re becoming a direct Internet retailer and we have to have expertise to do that. When you do that with publishing, it looks like a different business.”
Why it's a big story: 1) The size of the gift. $1 million. 2) The size of Rupert Murdoch's presence in the news world. 3) The size of Fox News in the political news landscape. 4) The size of Murdoch's influence at the Wall Street Journal.
Old, analog, one-to-many, non-customized media -- whether broadcast TV or newspapers or newsmagazines -- are a nice fit for those who spent decades with them. Given a choice, though, younger entertainment and news consumers are gravitating to ...
Why couldn't newspaper companies do what Patch announced -- a nationwide network of hyperlocal sites? "It's the legacy crap," one veteran with feet in both camps told me. "Instead of burning it down and starting all over, they just experiment."
Young Otis Chandler -- generation six of the family that built the Times into one of America's great papers -- talked about his four-year Goodreads, a social book review site that has grown to 1.7 million unique visitors a month, a 65% jump from ...
So who's the ad competition? Maybe we should ask, who isn't? ...The question, here, is one of sustainability. Certainly, there's the question whether Patch can sustain itself, as its parent AOL struggles to find a new identity and growing ...
Let’s look at the Newsonomics of launching what is the nation’s first combined local online news startup/24-hour news channel. That combination is the most basic to understanding the business of TBD, informing both TBD’s cost structure and ...
Pricing's been a big issue, and as I recently pointed out, ("The Newsonomics of the Fading 80/20 rule") the latest circulation revenues are problematic, with more companies going negative in circ revenue than positive. They may have found the ...
