April 25, 2024
In five languages (English, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian) and two U.S. printing, “Newsonomics: Twelve Trends That Will Shape the News You Get” is the first Ken Doctor book. Sign up here for notice of the new Newsonomics Readers.
Why it's a big story: 1) The size of the gift. $1 million. 2) The size of Rupert Murdoch's presence in the news world. 3) The size of Fox News in the political news landscape. 4) The size of Murdoch's influence at the Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreThe impact of the pricing moves is still uncertain. Short-term, they seemed to work. Though circulation continued to decline, circulation revenue was mildly up. The central notion: Get those with the newspaper habit to pay more of the freight, figuring that few would drop the newspaper because ...
Read MoreSo Gannett's decided that it's go-it-alone, devise-its own-local-marketing strategies approach didn't work.
Read MoreAre there any positive growth numbers to report? Which categories may be turning positive — maybe national or retail display ads — as the sagging economy continues to plague the traditional classified strengths of auto, recruitment, and real estate?
Read MoreNews 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.
Read More$1.96 billion: Google’s 1Q, 2010 profits, with $6.8 billion in revenue. Gannett -- largest news company in the US and second worldwide – reported total revenue of $1.32 billion, and profits of only $119 million in 1Q. Those are measures of how the world values these companies, what they do, ...
Read More"Each Starbucks location buys 10+ iPads. Then they rent them out to us - their consumers - by the hour.... by allowing us to access an iPad, we can then look through any and all newspaper(s) we'd like".
Read MoreNewspaper companies’ place in the business world is greatly reduced. They simply don’t have the wherewithal to acquire businesses that will be the building blocks of tomorrow’s growth. Their low profit numbers are proxies for their reduced horizons, their reduced reporting impact and their ...
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreWho will be next? And is the mating of banko companies the look of the next year? Dean Singleton bit the bitter bullet last week. After staving off bankruptcy for all of 2009, telling MediaNews execs that the company would not need to take that route, the company succumbed. MediaNews is ...
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