April 27, 2024
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The trials of legacy newspaper companies are apparently without end. This month, we see two quite different challenges confronting two of the most prestigious newspaper companies: the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. The Post bids ...
Why, I asked, Aaron Kushner, is he announcing the new L.A. Register as we’re winding down toward the end of the year? Given that the big questions about it — when will it launch, how will it be staffed — are as yet unannounced, ...
Even the paywall contrarians are coming around. John Paton’s Digital First Media will announce today its adoption of metered paywalls at all its Media News and Journal Register sites. That’s more than 75 papers, including big ones in ...
We’re still taking single digits here, but the single digits — at least for the third quarter — are black, rather than red, at the New York Times Company. That’s a signal change from the first half of the year (“The ...
Is reader revenue one of the answers to the next stage of hyperlocal? The halving of Patch ("The newsonomics of Patch's unraveling", today at the Nieman Journalism Lab) is just another curve on the long road to marry local news and digital. Like ...
No longer is Gannett a newspaper company with broadcast and digital assets. It can now be thought of as a broadcast company with major newspaper and digital assets.
As the Times Company readies its sale of the Boston Globe (at the Nieman Lab today, I further explore the sale of the Globe and Tribune metro properties), it's clear the Globe is underperforming the Times. It was down 6.7% in overall revenue, as ...
It's incredibly sobering to remember that three of 10 readers have abandoned news outlets. That's a reflection both of those newsroom reductions, which have removed three of 10 journalists, and how newspapers still spend way too much money in ...
It's the membership program — one that's not unique in the industry — that will catch the headlines.The Register wants to go big. It approached the Angels, located 10 minutes away, with the idea of better using the empty seats the Angels ...
2012 is the first year in which circulation revenue has surpassed advertising revenue. Full-year, it's now 51% of all revenues. Especially given the continued ad decline, that majority revenue number is hugely important. It's now the foundation ...
