April 26, 2024
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Important Details: As publishing revenues flatline, investors are looking for new leadership. Leadership that promises and seems capable of growing revenue and seeing the Internet more as an opportunity than a threat. Leadership that may not ...
Important Details: Contact. Content. Context. Those three C’s tell us a lot about the Internet news business. Publishers produce the content, but have too little contact with the users, who have found search aggregator sites ...
Important Details: It’s been a long-simmering dispute between news publishers and search aggregators. What’s fair and what’s legal, as the search aggregators index headlines and story leads from open news Web sites? Ask ...
Important Details: After McClatchy’s purchase of Knight Ridder earlier this year, circulation stats told us that McClatchy was becoming the second-largest newspaper company in the country. Events this week tell us it’s claiming ...
Important Details: You need a scorecard, an Excel spreadsheet, and a sheath of 10-Ks to keep track of the recent maneuvering in the newspaper industry. Blame (or credit) the moves on the falling dominoes out of the Knight Ridder demise. ...
Important Details: Circling the wagons to protect its core assets and values, the New York Times announced that it is closing a printing plant, cutting 250 more jobs, and reducing its page width by an inch and a half. Overall, the Times ...
What We’re Seeing: We’ve seen a pay-per-click revolution. We’ve seen Bill Gross, Google, and Yahoo! moving rapidly into the next frontier – pay for performance. That’s clearly where the sellers of goods and ...
What We’re Seeing: If AngiesList.com is the homeowner’s new friend for finding trustworthy service help, then Yelp is its hip, younger sister – an opinionated, often outrageous guide to everything outside those four walls. Get ...
What We’re Seeing: Call it the Innovator’s Delight. Attend a conference of outsiders, those not consumed with protecting legacy news businesses, and you hear and see a whole other attitude. Last week’s Media Giraffe conference, ...
Important Details: You have to use the Internet Archive to find the first BayArea.com. Now that idea – incorporating the soon-to-be-bought-by-MediaNews San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times, and maybe the San Francisco ...
