Newsonomics: Here Are 20 Epiphanies For The News Business Of The 2020s

It is the best of times for The New York Times — and likely the worst of times for all the local newspapers with Times (or Gazette or Sun or Telegram or Journal) in their nameplates across the land. When I spoke at state newspaper conferences five or ten years ago, people would say: “It’ll... ...

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Newsonomics: 8 Questions As Michael Ferro Leaves The Stage ($100 million Richer)

Michael Ferro has left the room. Tronc announced Friday that Merrick Media, the Ferro-led, Chicago-based investment firm had sold its 25% stake in Tronc. The hometown Chicago Tribune tries to tell us more about Sargent McCormick, the buyer of Merrick’s stake. We do know of his interest in the ...

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Newsonomics: For The Newspaper Industry’s Next Feat, Can It Get Donald Trump To Give It Antitrust Protection?

Sounds like a John Oliver segment, doesn’t it? As we all know from checking our favorite news apps, the line between satire and news has all but vanished anyhow. Last week, in the friendly confines of the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, the News Media Alliance initiative to gain an ...

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Newsonomics: There’s A Newspaper Chain That’s Grown Profits For The Past 5 Years, And It’s Looking To Buy More Papers

Related column: Hearst Takes Connecticut, But What’s Next?   It’s one of the grandest names in newspaper history, but it’s one seldom heard in the industry conversation about the future of the American press. As The New York Times and The Washington Post have come to dominate national ...

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Hearst Takes Connecticut, But What’s Next?

  Related column: Newsonomics: There’s a newspaper chain that’s grown profits for the past 5 years, and it’s looking to buy more papers   It’s long been a classic mismatch: Educated New Haven, Conn., home of Yale University, didn’t see much sophisticated reporting in its ...

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Meet ‘Reveal,’ The Show That Could Be ‘60 Minutes’ For Our Century

First published at Capital New York What might “60 Minutes” be like if it were launching in 2015? It might look—or really sound—a lot like “Reveal.” You may have bumped into “Reveal,” a first-of-its-kind regular radio investigative-journalism show, on your local public radio station ...

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Newsonomics: Digital First Media’s Upcoming Sale Produces Some Surprises

Anxious journalists from San Jose to Saint Paul, New Haven to Novato await the final shouts of the Digital First Media auction. Bidding is still in progress, as DFM’s regional business heads coast to coast make presentations to would-be buyers, anonymous to them, by conference call. They share ...

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