April 25, 2024
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You can call it Outbrain for newspapers, if you want. Or perhaps a tamer Taboola. Tim Landon doesn’t particularly care how you characterize his latest network effort. Just click on his widgets – which you’ll soon see on hundreds of daily newspaper sites across the country, starting over the ...
Read MoreRelated posts: The Tribune’s Detour The Tribune’s Metro Agony Chicago Tribune’s Blue Sky Innovation First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab Talk about spin. Two of America’s once-iconic publishers are about to be spun. Spun off, ...
Read MoreIt’s a Koch-around. The unexpected, and real, interest of Charles and David Koch in buying all the Tribune papers has set off a public and labor furor ("The Newsonomics of the Kochs Rising and Uprising"). While the AFL-CIO itself has mounted a quite public protest, two of Tribune’s owners — ...
Read MoreAm I the only one who doesn't get Gannett's branding campaign? Yes, the Gannett math -- $33 million saved in furloughs, as much as $27 million potentially to be granted in exec bonuses -- seems sadly clueless, but what about the money the company has spent on its branding campaign. New logo and ...
Read MoreSo Gannett's decided that it's go-it-alone, devise-its own-local-marketing strategies approach didn't work.
Read MoreI'm assuming Gannett, good operator that it is, real does have a handle on how much of its business is really digital and how much legacy, print or broadcast. But I'm not sure. In addition, it's clear that many newspaper companies as they bundle, unbundle and re-bundle legacy and digital ...
Read MoreI’ve long compared the cable and phone companies on the one hand to the newspaper companies on the other. Newspaper companies saw there business being upended by the Internet, made small bets and have lost out on the big ad growth the web has generated. Telephone companies — the ...
Read MoreQuadrantONE moseyed out of the gate last week, after a few false starts. It got good ink because it offered good numbers: a potential of 50 million unique visitors waiting to be served in 27 of the top 30 markets. The new network will leverage sites owned by its four co-owners, Gannett, ...
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