The (Still-Evolving) Newsonomics of Digital Transition
AOL, business model, Dave Hunke, digital revenue, Patch, print, SeattlePI.com, USA Today, Warren Webster
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9 Questions on Apple’s “iTunes for News” Store
Isn't Apple wanting 30% of fees for apps a little like [Sony CEO] "Howard Stringer demanding 30% of the revenue produced by TV shows running on Sony TV sets"? That's how a friend put it to me when we talked today. It's a confusing world, no ...
The Number
As the much-ballyhooed "fight for livingroom" plays out, can national news companies like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and NPR, or local news companies, get a piece of the pie, whoever (Apple, Google, Comcast, Time Warner, Dish) ...
Global Digital Ad Spend Picks Up Pace
Here’s another number that’s important, in this big scheme of things, in the where-the-world is going vs. where it’s been reckoning: Of digital advertising — not only soon to be #1, but also the fastest-growing kind of advertising — newspaper ...
Rupert’s $1 Million Republican Gift: Why It Matters
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.
The Number
23. That's the number of companies Google has bought since January, 2009
The Number
While investors have reacted negatively to drain on profits, Google's aggressive hiring is an audacious move for market share -- what smart companies, with the means, do in a recession.
“Smart” Slate: New Game, New Rules?
We could say that news companies -- from Slate to the Journal and Times -- have figured out that playing the ad game by someone else's rules didn't make a lot of sense. In the game of gross numbers, they couldn't win.
The Newsonomics of Reborn Newspaper Profit
News companies have far fewer resources than they’d like and they need. While once they were the big guys, looking at buying start-ups, for now, they’re largely on the sidelines, marveling at the mojo, the profits, and the acquisitions of the ...
The Number
$1.96 billion: Google’s 1Q, 2010 profits, with $6.8 billion in revenue. Gannett -- largest news company in the US and second worldwide – reported total revenue of $1.32 billion, and profits of only $119 million in 1Q. Those are measures of how ...