April 23, 2024
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Back up your offer with…journalism. It’s tough to talk cost-cutting publishers into new investments in journalists. But Haaretz took that step to fortify a business opportunity. Too often, publishers have gone to the pay market with newly cutback products — ones that hardly generate enthusiasm ...
Read MoreNow with the prediction that as many as 50 million in the next two years, according to yesterday's EMarketer report, it's clear we've got a new path. Have an unprofitable, or barely profitable print product. Bag it, and go to the iPa
Read MoreThese are two, among many, companies on a collision course. Think ABC, AFP, AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CBS, the FT, Guardian, NBC, NPR, News Corp, Reuters, Telegraph and Wall St. Journal, and News Corp overall, here as well. It's a battle in which each kind of player -- those with legacy print, ...
Read MoreThe rapid-fire decisions keep coming at The New York Times Company. And not a moment too soon. We see that the Times has decided to put the International Herald Tribune website to sleep, a slumber that makes a lot of sense. Back in June, the Times had signaled the change, but now it's going ...
Read MoreThe Times’ move to bring the International Herald Tribune website into the brand fold certainly makes sense. The change will add about 7 million uniques to NYTimes.com’s 58 million, a nice 12% boost. One question is why it took so long – the Times arm-wrestled the Washington Post out of ...
Read MoreConsider the new Big City American journalism and the emerging cast of characters owning it. It’s a page right out of the history books when a few well-heeled titans controlled the press, and its new incarnation could have all kinds of implications for the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, for ...
Read MoreWe can add still another franchise – business news – to those being abandoned by the daily press. I’ve seen slimming of business pages, some announced grandly, some never acknowledged but painfully obvious to newspaper readers. Once-robust sections of eight pages have trickled to six or four, ...
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