May 9, 2024
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Justin Smith pronounces himself happy with Bloomberg’s month-old redesign. The C.E.O. of Bloomberg Media has been watched closely since he assumed the job a year and a half ago, coming over from a much-acclaimed stint rebuilding Atlantic Media. Now he can finally point to something very ...
Read MoreEven as the Financial Times announces excellent bottom-line numbers, the heat it’s feeling from the diverse and growing competition in business news is palpable. The FT may be 127 years old and roundly and rightfully respected for its journalism. But it doesn’t even break into the top 25 ...
Read MoreWhat is The Daily Beast exactly? It’s not one of the high-flying venture-fueled news companies we read so much about these days, like Vox or Buzzfeed, given its Barry Diller–IAC ownership. It’s not a legacy magazine or newspaper company, though its founder Tina Brown came out of that world. ...
Read MoreAsk anyone around The New York Times, and they’ll tell you C.E.O. Mark Thompson is a model of certitude. Confidence exudes from him, even in the face of business performance that leaves everyone else less sanguine. So it was this morning as Thompson explained the New York Times company’s ...
Read MoreJim Moroney’s newspaper once dominated Dallas as only a monopoly daily can. After beating its rival Dallas Times Herald, then a Times-Mirror–owned property, to a bloody pulp, forcing the paper’s closing in 1991, The Dallas Morning News was the kind of paper that threw off tens of millions in ...
Read MoreFirst 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 ...
Read MoreFirst published at Capital New York After one cost-cutting private equity company has spent close to half a decade wielding the knife at Digital First Media, how many new “efficiencies” might a second P.E. buyer find? That’s the question we may soon see answered, as the sale of Digital ...
Read MoreI remember the early summer day in Moscow well. I had one day to myself to explore a bit of the city after conducting a two-day workshop for Russian regional publishers. By late afternoon, I was ready to return to the hotel and prepare for the next morning’s flight home. I braved the Moscow ...
Read MoreValentine’s Day may be coming early for Digital First Media this week. DFM’s board and UBS, its broker, open the envelopes, looking for affection. It’s an uneasy love-me/love-me-not time, newspapers’ version of Match.com. Will DFM’s affection for the open market be returned, or will it be left ...
Read MoreCan it be that the solution to newspaper companies’ digital woes lies in the physical world? While news reading may be rapidly going digital, humans still, at this writing, spend their time in the terrestrial world. Some even enjoy the social activity that actual physical community events can ...
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