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Consider the new Big City American journalism and the emerging cast of characters owning it. It’s a page right out of the history books when a few well-heeled titans controlled the press, and its new incarnation could have all kinds of ...
It’s easy to get lost in the current era of Big Man in Town Journalism. Zell. Singleton, Murdoch. Tierney. Harte. So much of the recent drama in newspaper ownership change has been driven by personality, as keep-it-in-road, rationale ...
How fast can you paddle? That’s the unabated message of today’s ABC FAS FAX circulation numbers being reported. They cover the six-month period, through March 31. Overall, the water keeps rising: 3.5% down daily, and 4.5% down ...
Last week, I talked to a veteran reporter wondering — of course — who might buy his struggling metro paper. We went through the possible names and then arrived at Murdoch. "At least, he’s a newspaperman," the reporter ...
I’m little surprised by the results, though I wish I were. The Times is barely profitable. (See comments at end of post from NYT spokesperson Catherine Mathis to this point.) With ad spending overall down just under double digits at 9% for ...
The New Barbarians are about to enter the boardroom, as the New York Times expands its governing body by two, "welcoming" Firebrand’s Scott Galloway and Kohlberg & Co.’s James Kohlberg. It’s a big deal — the ...
An old pro recently asked, “Is there anything newspapers can do to turn it around at this point?, that’s what my friends are asking me.” My reply, well, today, no, if you mean turning the business back up, on a dime. ...
The Newspaper Association of America — NAA — is about to hold its annual conference in DC next month. Some of us (Content Bridges, Newsosaur) have carped about the NAA’s rose-colored view of newspapers’ future, their ...
Everything’s timing, and QuadrantOne’s formal launch may be bolstered by the fortune of events, in this case the Microsoft bear shadowing Sunnyvale. Today, it announced the addition of Newspaper Consortium publishers — adding ...
Call it physics. Call it Zen. Call it journalism. As I cover the waning fortunes of legacy media and rising fortunes of start-up journalism sites, I can’t help but think of equilibrium. Maybe it’s being back on the Left Coast too ...
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