May 13, 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.
One headline: “Salt Lake City paper axes 43% of its staff”. Another: “Deseret News a model of growth and innovation for the entire industry”. One’s a fact; the other is aspirational.
Read MoreFrom the Post, Gilbert takes the ability to be two things, simultaneously, a worldwide political news leader and a company plying in the waters of hyperlocal; he believes that in the digital age, you can difference faces for differing audiences. In this case, you can be both a worldwide Mormon ...
Read MoreBrisbane has learned from personal experience that prior standing is no promise of survival. Knight Ridder [for whom I worked for 21 years] reigned as the #2 journalism company in revenue size in the U.S. for years, and distinguished itself journalistically. Yet, in 2006, it hit a wall, as ...
Read MoreToday's announcement that the USA Today is falling on its own grenade, blowing itself up, taking casualties (130 layoffs) and taking an increasingly familiar digital-first, print-last path makes historic sense.
Read MoreNews Corp.'s Avatar has taken in $2.75 billion. Compare that financial flexibility with the Times, and it’s night and day. The Times Co.’s total 2009 revenues: $2.4 billion, less than Avatar itself has produced.
Read MoreBewkes is on to something all savvy media execs should get. The customer wants the technology -- and the platform of delivery -- to be transparent. We want what we want, and we don't want to be nickel-and-dimed along the way. Single pricing, what I've called ''all-access pricing" across, ...
Read More“Where we’ve found inspiration is Internet retail, not publishing,” he told me last week. “We’re becoming a direct Internet retailer and we have to have expertise to do that. When you do that with publishing, it looks like a different business.”
Read MoreWhy it's a big story: 1) The size of the gift. $1 million. 2) The size of Rupert Murdoch's presence in the news world. 3) The size of Fox News in the political news landscape. 4) The size of Murdoch's influence at the Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreSo who's the ad competition? Maybe we should ask, who isn't? ...The question, here, is one of sustainability. Certainly, there's the question whether Patch can sustain itself, as its parent AOL struggles to find a new identity and growing business model. Then, there's the question of the ...
Read MorePricing's been a big issue, and as I recently pointed out, ("The Newsonomics of the Fading 80/20 rule") the latest circulation revenues are problematic, with more companies going negative in circ revenue than positive. They may have found the point of price resistance -- especially for ...
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