May 18, 2024
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Executive change often drives more executive change, and that’s what the word is today coming out of The New York Times. This morning, S.V.P. and Chief Information Officer Marc Frons announced his departure, an amicable one that provides the Times—and its new E.V.P. for Product and Technology ...
Read MoreIf you want to talk about profits at the U.S.’s top newspaper companies, you don’t need big numbers any more. Tribune Publishing could count a bare $2.5 million in net income for the first three months of the year. That’s the combined net of eight metro papers, including the ...
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 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 MoreIn a move both opportunistic and commonsensical, The New York Times finally filled its top digital job Monday. Kinsey Wilson becomes the Times’ first executive vice president for product and technology, charged with the huge task of rethinking The New York Times—as a product. Curiously, Wilson ...
Read MoreTo inaugurate his tenure as NPR’s fifth C.E.O. in six years, Jarl Mohn took a page from the playbook of campaigning politicians and embarked on an unconventional listening tour. Hearing of Mohn’s appointment last May, his buddy Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and ...
Read MoreIntellectually, we all knew that the Internet was so big as to be virtually infinite. But it’s hard to know what to do with that squishy concept. Then BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti outlined his all-in approach in front of a couple thousand nerds at SXSW Interactive last week. He was both ...
Read MoreBoko Haram. Ebola. Child soldiers. These are the sort of tales of woe that many western readers associate with Africa, home to 1.1 billion, a sixth of the world’s population. Relatively few American or European reporters are based there. As foreign reporting staffs have been cut over the past ...
Read MoreThroughout this morning’s earnings call, the thought reoccurred: Jack Griffin’s new Tribune Publishing Company is playing catch-up. Then, toward the end of the call, one a little more informative than average, the CEO said it plainly, and more honestly than what we usually expect to hear on ...
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 ...
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