Newsonomics: The Next 48 Hours Could Determine The Fate Of Two Of America’s Largest Newspaper Chains

The next 48 hours may decide the fate of two of America’s largest newspaper chains that collectively serve almost a fifth of all American local newspaper readers. And what happens in those hours could prompt a wave of other moves across the rest ...

Newsonomics: How Will The Pandemic Panic Reshape The Local News Industry?

McClatchy’s bankruptcy is barreling to a conclusion. Tribune’s quietly trimming its board to prepare for a merger. Google and Facebook face unprecedented calls to pay up on at least three continents. And all the while — wait for it — Alden ...

The Newsonomics of the Mnuchin Money And The Bailout’s Impact On America’s Press

  Is that a light at the end of the tunnel? Or just the Mnuchin Express coming for the newspaper industry? The $2.2 trillion CARES Act will likely become law at some point today. It’s a bailout that has got local news publishers and their ...

Newsonomics: Here Are 20 Epiphanies For The News Business Of The 2020s

It is the best of times for The New York Times — and likely the worst of times for all the local newspapers with Times (or Gazette or Sun or Telegram or Journal) in their nameplates across the land. When I spoke at state newspaper conferences ...

Newsonomics: Four Years In To Their Surprise Marriage, What Has The FT Done For Nikkei, And Vice Versa?

On July 23, 2015, the Financial Times and Nikkei — the leading business newspapers in the U.K. and Japan — shocked the news business worldwide with its own acquisition breaking news. On that date, the two companies announced a tie-up that no one ...

Newsonomics: Patrick Soon-Shiong On The L.A. Times’ Transmedia Future, French-Fry Tweets, And Modernizing The “Newspaper” Business

It was a single weekend phone call three years ago that set Patrick Soon-Shiong on an unexpected path. It was Michael Ferro, whom he barely knew, calling in spring 2016, telling him he’d make the medtech billionaire a “partner” in Tribune ...