April 20, 2024
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Important Details: The newspaper industry approaches 2007, staring down unusually unpleasant budget numbers. Flat-lining print advertising revenues have produced some of the tightest expense budgets in recent history, on top of this year’s ...
Important Details: Dow Jones told its staff Thursday that all the talk of doing things differently in the digital age would make real change in their work lives. A memo to staff, published on Jim Romanesko’s Poynter, says Dow Jones is ...
Important Details: After 18 months of protracted negotiation, seven of the largest U.S. newspaper companies have come to terms with Yahoo! on a potentially far-reaching agreement. That deal touches some 13 of the nation’s 15 largest ...
Important Details: In a week of moving and shaking in the news syndication world, the Reuters-Pluck announcement stands out. Reuters raised both eyebrows of many observers with its two-part deal. First, it invested $7 million into Pluck, ...
Important Details: Google made two announcements last week, both solidifying the notion that it aims to be a central and omnipresent advertising presence. On Monday, the company announced agreements with 50 U.S. daily newspapers, including the ...
Important Details: Earlier this year, about a dozen Gannett papers set off on quest, testing what they could learn from unprecedented interaction with their communities. Three of them — in Des Moines, Sioux Falls and Melbourne (FL) ...
Important Details: Newspaper executives have been asking themselves the question: can it get worse? Their answer became clear over the past month. Print circulation, down 2 percent-plus in each report since early 2005, slid further. Sunday ...
Important Details: With all the activity announced and in the works, the SIIA Content Division’s session on "Successful Deals with Google and Yahoo, held last week in New York City, was timely. Discussion of actual, successful ...
What We’re Seeing: In this election season, we can see how much politicians are doing an end-around traditional news media to reach citizens directly and tell their story (or their opponents’) more directly. They are using the ...
Important Details: Newspaper giant Gannett announced Wednesday sub par quarterly earnings. Adjusting reporting to exclude papers gained in an exchange with Knight Ridder in 2005, the numbers reinforced the woes of the industry as a whole and ...
