May 17, 2024
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Many of us shared the three-minute Sports Illustrated tablet video over the last week, and now watched at least a quarter million times. It was an ah-ha moment, amid the rat-a-tat-tat of daily digital news, moves and announcements. We could see a different kind of news reading future, one that ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Two significant announcements signal news publishers’ renewed efforts to gain better control of their content as we move on to the next stage of the Internet. The Associated Press announced a new “registry” and “beacon” program, aiming at better ...
Read MoreFigure the average newspaper reader spends maybe 10-15 minutes a day with the paper, somewhat more on Sunday. Multiply that out for a month and you get more than four hours of reading per month Figure the average online user spends maybe 10-15 minutes per month on an individual newspaper sites. ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Apple’s new App Store (found in iTunes, through this link) features all kinds of tailored products, all meant to grab some of the popular smartphone’s new users. Publishers may pay special attention to the News channel, but they’ll find scores of intriguing ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The BBC is remaking itself in a new six-year plan, pushed by lower core revenues and an audience moving to the internet. It cited this backdrop to the announcements: “The BBC News website is reaching a weekly unique average of six million users in the UK. BBC mobile has ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The Knight Foundation, a leader in journalism education and civic engagement in more than 20 cities across the US, named the first winners in its five-year program to blaze new pathways in digital journalism. The Foundation, the 24th largest in the nation with $2 billion in ...
Read MoreWhat percent of print ad loss is made up by digital ad gain? This is the crossover metric driving much of John Paton’s Digital First Media/Journal Register Company strategy. With print advertising down now more than 50 percent in 10 years in the U.S., and even diving more quickly now in some ...
Read MoreThe 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 of the industry. The dates June 30 and July 1 ...
Read MoreMcClatchy’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 Global Capital’s Heath Freeman is joining the fray, ...
Read MoreSixty-three cents. That’s all it took to buy a share of Gannett at market close yesterday. The entire company — valued at $18.5 billion-with-a-“b” 15 years ago when it owned TV stations but many fewer newspapers, not to mention $823 million-with-an-“m” as recently as January — is today worth ...
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