Honolulu Merger Offers Peer News Opening

If Peer News (the name seems problematic from here on the Mainland), can execute at a high level, it can move into a vacuum -- and make the case for a homegrown news product.

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Mirror Football Places Value Before Price

Important Details:  Amid the swirl of talk about paid news content, Trinity Mirror has zagged while others are zigging. The company, by revenue the third largest UK  and 12th largest news publisher in the world (see our report, News Publishers & Providers: 2008 Final Market Size and Share ...

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Union-Tribune Sale: Is San Diego Really Just a Big Small Town?

My best guess: The Union-Tribune will get smaller and much more local-local focused. And that real estate under its building (and the Union-Tribune's other San Diego real estate holdings, which we assume are part of the deal), that may be a real motivator for the purchase. Commercial real ...

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