The Newsonomics of Piano Media

The Piano experience isn’t about a little-heard-from place east of Vienna. It’s about scarcity. Bella says that Piano will launch in another neighboring country next month. He notes that there are 10 to 15 European countries with small populations and a smaller number of media outlets, an early ...

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The Newsonomics of the Next Recession

Overall, what a next recession would do is accelerate most the current trends. We’d see some impact in the fourth quarter, but most of it in 2012, as those budgets are now warily being planned. We’ll beginning asking the question — again — of which companies can survive and under whose ...

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The Newsonomics of the New ABCs of Journalism

Just as the digital marketing world has increasingly provided agencies and advertisers with a trove of audience data, the print world is slowly responding. While advertisers can only track these differing print niches with differing coupon codes, or a spectrum of differing 1-800 call-in ...

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The Newsonomics of Roll-Up

Once you've clustered -- centralized to the max the administration, circulation, advertising, production, finance and newsroom tasks of all of your own owned properties, you look next door to other companies, for fresh cluster bait. (Wait a minute, wasn't that the plot line in Aliens or The ...

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Nine Questions for 2H, 2010: Brains on internet, Reuters’ app success, TV tabs, Last Man Standing and Angelo’s question

Are we beginning to see the Last Man Standing strategy play out in the U.S.'s biggest cities? The New York Times is planning on building out 10-15 regional editions, on the model of its Chicago (partnered with the Chicago News Cooperative) and Bay Area (partnered with Bay Area Citizen) models. ...

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The Newsonomics of Reborn Newspaper Profit

News companies have far fewer resources than they’d like and they need. While once they were the big guys, looking at buying start-ups, for now, they’re largely on the sidelines, marveling at the mojo, the profits, and the acquisitions of the Googles and the Apples.

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Amazon’s Rookie Entry into the Blogosphere

Tech Crunch's Erick Schonfeld broke the news of the flimsiness of the Amazon's vetting process on Thursday. He showed how easy it was for anyone to claim and register anyone's else content, doing so with NYTimes.com's Bits Blog. Good post. It hit directly on the easy invitation to copyright ...

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Kindle, E-Reader, I-News Mania Looks Like News Gizmo-Itis

I guess it isn't surprising that publishers are focusing on the wrapper, not the content. But it's not the bun, it's the hot dog we should keep our eye on. The hot dog is the content, and the Internet does a great job of moving the content around. There are 1.5 billion people around the world ...

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Rocky Shutdown, by the Numbers

So the Rocky's final daily circ will come in at 210,000, more or less. That would make it the biggest paper shutdown since the columnist-rich Chicago Daily News, which folded in 1978 with a circulation of about 327,000. The last big shutdown metro that came to my mind was the Dallas Times ...

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How Will Carol Bartz Feel About Consorting with the Press?

The fact that Carol Bartz' first act was to announce that Sue Decker is out undoubtedly sent a shiver down newspaper spines. Decker and her protege Hilary Schneider, late of Knight Ridder Digital, have been the high-profile champions of the consortium. So after the Decker shoe dropped, the next ...

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