Newsonomics: Thirst For Liquidity Drives The News Chain Consolidation Games

“People think nothing is happening, but that’s the farthest thing from the truth. Everybody is talking to everybody.” That’s the best quick summation I can offer of the first few months of what I called 2019 Consolidation Games back in January. That line, offered last week by one newspaper ...

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‘Whole New World’ for Publishers as Google Finally Scraps First Click Free

Google’s decade-plus First Click Free program sounded innocuous enough. In the Alphabet Inc. unit’s perpetual effort to keep the open web free, Google promised a search throughway to news pages. If publishers wanted to be easily found, they found little choice but to accept the ...

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UK Journalism Rocking Along with Its Politics

The UK moves have many parallels in the US, but the concentration of them in so short a time portends new waves of news industry transformation, and maybe some regression, across the Western World.

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Guardian’s Sale of Regional Newspapers Indicates Lasting Change

And time is running through the hourglass too quickly. Both Carolyn McCall and Sly Bailey are trying to transition their companies, on the fly, into more digitally oriented enterprises, and both are trying to use the stress of time to their advantage. For McCall, that means focusing news ...

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