May 10, 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.
Several months ago, Vinit Bharara, founder of the digital media publisher Some Spider, bought the pre-K-oriented website Scary Mommy (“A parenting website for imperfect parents”) as a base for serial niche-site reproduction. The mommy site, which was founded by Jill Smokler, has already ...
Read MoreYelp’s for sale, and the news has generated the usual, now-tiresome lists of potential buyers: Google, Amazon, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook. It’s like all the money in the business world slid off one end of the table and sluiced down to Silicon Valley. Forget the old spend-a-week-without-the-Internet ...
Read MoreJames Dolan surprised many casual observers of the flailing newspaper trade when he suggested he might bid on the for-sale New York Daily News—and offer a dollar. But the dollar is a good proxy for the familiar question mark, as in who the hell knows what a newspaper property is worth these ...
Read MoreHe’s only been a publisher for nine months, but now Austin Beutner will command southern California’s top two dailies, after Tribune Publishing finalized a purchase price of $85 million for the biggest newspaper company to its south, UT San Diego, last week (“Newsonomics: Tribune Publishing ...
Read MoreIn a move meant to blunt escalating European Union action against Google’s marketplace dominance, Google will tomorrow announce a €150 million partnership, to be spent over three years, in support of something called the Digital News Initiative (DNI), I’ve learned through several confidential ...
Read MoreDon’t just call it a redesign. The Wall Street Journal, like Bloomberg before it a couple of months ago, wants you think about more than appearance, which “redesign” implies for many. You might call the new Journal a multi-platform rejiggering. Importantly, it represents the first major, uh, ...
Read MoreMathias Döpfner wants you to know that Axel Springer is a player—in the U.S., and worldwide. The C.E.O. of what is likely Europe’s largest digital media company already has transformed his heavyweight German publishing Haus, turning it into a globe-spanning media player. Springer’s investments ...
Read MoreThe Economist is launching its new Global Business Review (GBR) today, and the Chinese/English product marks a small but important new test of Paywalls 2.0 — the creation of new paid digital products short of a full digital subscription to an existing print-based product. The New York Times is ...
Read MoreFrom coast to coast, the spring scent of newspaper transactions hangs in the air. The big one — Apollo Global Management’s purchase of Digital First Media — is nearing completion. Meanwhile, sellers from New York City to southern California test the mettle (and wallets) of would-be buyers. ...
Read MoreTribune Publishing is one of three final bidders on the acquisition of U-T San Diego, the entity formerly known as the San Diego Union-Tribune, according to several confidential sources. For Tribune Publishing, spun off from Tribune Broadcasting six months ago, San Diego—California’s second ...
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