May 19, 2024
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Charging for non-desktop/laptop access should be a new revenue stream for news publishers. The math, though, isn't huge. Who is most likely to pay for Journal mobile? Presumably it's online subscribers, of whom there are about a million. So $12 a year, if all of them signed up, would be $12 ...
Read MoreImportant Details: If December 21st is the darkest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, it looks like it is arriving early. The week’s news in the US newspaper industry has cast a pall, as newspapers gird for a first half of 2009 that makes their 2008 look relatively good. And that ...
Read More* We've learned that Zell isn't too good with math. He told Portfolio's Joanne Lipman just last month that: "When we looked at the historical numbers, we saw an average erosion of about 3 percent. At the time we underwrote the transaction, we used a 6 percent erosion." But look at Tribune's 4Q, ...
Read MoreAs daily newspapers become less than daily — witness the East Valley Tribune's move into the world of four-day-a-week dailiness in January — why would we expect a metro area to support two daily newspapers? Against that backdrop, Scripps' announcement that it is ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Centro, which has become a major supplier of national online-only advertising revenue to US news websites, has bought the Real Cities national ad network from McClatchy. The price of the transaction was not disclosed. The acquisition reinforces Chicago-based Centro’s ...
Read MoreThere’s little intrigue in Tribune’s second quarter earnings announcement. As the company says, "Our publishing results are, for the most part, in line with industry trends, which remain consistent with what we reported in the first quarter." Such consistency, ...
Read MoreImportant Details: As soon as entrepreneur Sam Zell closed on the Tribune Company transaction, taking the third largest US news publisher private at the end of 2007, he promised new thinking applied to old newspaper problems. Zell has sold one major Tribune asset – Newsday – to ...
Read MoreImportant Details: A bidding war for a daily newspaper? That headline has surprised many observers over the last several weeks, as three serious bidders push up the price of Newsday, the Long Island-based New York daily that the Tribune company has put on the block. The top bid is now ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The Tribune Company’s board meets Saturday (Jan. 20) to assess bids for the company. After a four-month auction, it looks like that board is in for a long weekend as three disparate bids, all received at the deadline, show just how tricky – and low – ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The Tribune’s annual meeting, held on May 2, at first seemed unexceptional. CEO Dennis FitzSimons acknowledged that the company’s revenues and share price were troublesome, but said he was buoyed by the growth of the company’s Internet businesses ...
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