April 16, 2024
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Important Details: Do a local search these days and you may come across an unaccustomed url: Examiner. com. Examiner.com has burst into the top 25 of US online traffic rankings, currently at number 23 with 5.3 milion unique visitors in October, ...
Important Details: The Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) is an above-average news market. It ranks highly in measures such as regular internet access, college graduates and high-income households. It boasts two metropolitan dailies, a ...
If Sweeney came concerned, he might have left more worried. Yes, Public Radio’s legacy business is radio, and, more recently, audio, via podcast and streaming. What Sweeney heard, though, was a larger Who, public radio’s nascent attempts to ...
Important Details: The Dallas Morning News felt the same heat from circulation decline as its metro peers in the last round of circulation reporting a month ago. Yet the numbers came in about where the paper expected them, says publisher Jim ...
It's hard to gauge the impact of New York Times and Wall Street Journal moves into metro markets. They could be simple, print retention strategies aimed, at holding on to valuable print readers — the magnets for still-lucrative print ...
So the newspaper industry is taking a page from indie film ("A Day Without a Mexican"), dailies are hiring execs from the alternative press, and we're seeing new, almost-daily, mating rituals between older and newer news media. ...
Important Details: Metro dailies are getting some unexpected competition. Friday, the New York Times launched a new regional edition for the San Francisco Bay Area. The Times’ existing 10-person Bay Area bureau will now produce additional ...
Tired of playing defense and readying itself for offense, the New York Times’ formal announcement of its San Francisco “edition” this week shows us how a world is moving and how the Times and Wall Street Journal (which also will offer an SF ...
Important Details: San Francisco financier Warren Hellman has announced one of the most ambitious independent online news start-ups. He’s putting up seed money of $5 million with plans to hire “dozens of journalists” to cover ...
For daily newspapers, the growth of alternative journalisms is both a promise and a threat. It's a promise of getting high-quality, low-cost (California Watch charged even large metros just a few hundred dollars, though it is reviewing its ...
