April 18, 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 MoreComing, officially today, to your hometown: A templatized, national/local, ready-to-go network of 70 news sites and apps that aim to make use of all the au courant digital news business knowledge of the day. It’s called the Sun-Times Network, and it’s the latest attempt to try to do local news ...
Read MoreFollow Newsonomics on Twitter @kdoctor First published at the Harvard Nieman Journalism Lab Sometimes, you see the train wreck coming. Tony Ridder, the last CEO of Knight Ridder, saw the classifieds pileup ahead and would talk about it in our company meetings by the mid-’90s: 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 MoreHas Mr. Silver heard of Facebook? Or Google? Does he know the amount of money invested in digital media? Does he know what ad exchanges are? There are dozens of content websites bigger than NYTimes. Very few of them make more money than the digital editions of the NYTimes. This alone is a ...
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 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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