May 5, 2024
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As I train down to D.C. for the Online News Association conference (moderating a panel hopefully titled, Optimize and Monetize, tomorrow; if you’re there, say hello), the dizzying news industry news of the last week raises more questions ...
Well now, all-platform reporters are all the rage. CNN’s among the most prominent of news companies claiming the turf. Its recent announcement that it was starting — yes, starting in the summer of 2008! — 10 new US bureaus ...
Today’s announcement that Centro is taking over the Real Cities Network isn’t really an exclamation point. It’s more like a period, marking movement between eras. Centro has brought local news websites significantly more ...
There’s little intrigue in Tribune’s second quarter earnings announcement. As the company says, "Our publishing results are, for the most part, in line with industry trends, which remain consistent with what we reported in the ...
Out of many memorable quotes from my Knight Ridder days, one keeps bouncing back to me. It came of the company’s mess in Detroit. Knight Ridder had long run the Detroit Free Press, one of the country’s liveliest, most readable ...
So what do we make of the first half of 2008 in DailyLand? Bad and getting worse. I’ve listened to the CEO webcasts — so you don’t have to! — and must say that there were a couple of eerie echoes of my own suggested ...
Last week’s Gannett’s 2Q report was an auspicious start, with the New York Times due Wednesday and McClatchy Thursday. Start with the fact that Gannett, as both the world’s and US’s largest news company, commands about one of twenty dollars ...
It’s time for second-quarter newspaper earnings reports, with Gannett leading off Wednesday, with the long tale of woe to follow. Given the many newspaper staff cutbacks, which I thought might include the investor relations people, ...
Is the L.A. Times the new ground zero of newspaper staff cuts and frightsizing? Los Angelenos, of which I am one by nativity but not choice, may think so, imagining L.A. as the center of everybody’s universe. It’s not, of course, but ...
I heard an hour of the 24-hour George Carlin marathon on XM Radio last week — ah, the wonders of digital programming — and that got me to thinking about taboos in the news trade. So, just what might be the Seven Dirty Words You ...
