May 2, 2024
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Important Details: The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have long enjoyed one of the few remaining newspaper wars in American mid-sized cities. The war’s been a journalistic one, but things have taken a nasty turn, especially with ...
Important Details: It’s the kind of news news companies didn’t want to report: The growth in online revenue is slowing. That slowing was indicated in the flurry of quarterly earnings reports. Many headlines about overall performance ...
Important Details: Gatehouse Media has been a contrarian surprise in a newspaper market in which there are more would-be sellers than buyers. The company’s been on a buying binge for a couple of years, recently announcing the purchase of ...
Important Details: After a decade of pushing and shoving, 12 major U.S. newspaper companies have finally forged an all-encompassing network, embracing both editorial content and advertising sales. The network’s key partner and technology ...
Important Details: All of a sudden the Chicago media scene is an uproar. The Tribune Company’s ownership is changing hands, surfacing many questions about the hometown Tribune. Now the scrappy tabloid Chicago Sun-Times is moving forward on ...
Important Details: Agence France Presse (AFP) and Google have settled a two-year-old lawsuit over the leading search site’s use of AFP headlines, story summaries, and photos. The suit had been contentious, and a focal point in the ongoing ...
Important Details: Building on its experience with user forums, news aggregator Topix gave itself a near-complete makeover this week. Out: the busy, headline-packed, “all-kinds-of-news” news aggregator site that allowed readers to ...
Important Details: Another outsider has bought into the US newspaper industry. In this case, investor Sam Zell becomes both the newest and most significant new face in an industry undergoing rapid ownership change. Zell and The Tribune Company ...
Important Details: It’s a simple idea, with a twist. Publish a Monday through Friday daily and hand it out free to readers, avoiding the obstacle of paid circulation. Metro newspapers, with 81 dailies stretched out across the globe, has ...
Important Details: From Cairo, from Beijing, from Baghdad and from Jerusalem, McClatchy’s global bureau reporters will now offer news and perspectives, some of it exclusively through Yahoo! News. The new joint venture is named ...
