Newsonomics: “Digital defeats print” Is The Headline As Gannett Steps Away From Printed Election Results

Editors have long had to battle deadlines on election nights across America — pushing press runs to the last possible moment in order to get the most complete results into the next morning’s paper. Print is many things, but it isn’t a great real-time medium. Now, though, Gannett is throwing the ...

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Newsonomics: 10 Questions into 2016, Including Ad Blockers, Watson, TPUB and Particles

Everyone’s got questions. CNBC’s crew faced the Republican Ten for about an hour last evening until finding themselves in a no-man’s land. In front of them were the candidates who turned the tables on them, asserting that old standby “media bias.” Behind them was a very un-Boulder-like audience ...

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Gannett Joins the 100 club with Purchase of 15 More Dailies

Gannett may be struggling along with its peers, but it’s doubling down on the newspaper business. Today, the largest U.S. newspaper company by revenues (and second-largest globally, to News Corp.) bought 15 more dailies from the Journal Media Company. The price: $280 million, which represents a ...

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APT Launches. Now Let’s Track the Yahoo Bump

Open your windows, and you can almost hear a muted "Yahoo!," wafting out of the windows of many newspaper buildings across the land this week. "Yahoo!," as in the long-awaited launch of the ready-for-newspaper-integration ad platform has begun. Though I have doubts that this ...

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