May 1, 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.
Let's figure there are 44,000 journalists left in US newsrooms, an up-to-date tally hard to keep up with. So, if the industry magically flipped that switch tomorrow, we've got an estimate of how many online-only published could pay: 6600 journalists, and that's at the optimistic 15% number. Of ...
Read MoreToday’s announcement that Centro is taking over the Real Cities Network isn’t really an exclamation point. It’s more like a period, marking movement between eras. Centro has brought local news websites significantly more revenue over the past several years. Real Cities, on the ...
Read MoreI’ve long compared the cable and phone companies on the one hand to the newspaper companies on the other. Newspaper companies saw there business being upended by the Internet, made small bets and have lost out on the big ad growth the web has generated. Telephone companies — the ...
Read MoreEverything’s timing, and QuadrantOne’s formal launch may be bolstered by the fortune of events, in this case the Microsoft bear shadowing Sunnyvale. Today, it announced the addition of Newspaper Consortium publishers — adding 138 web sites (both newspaper and broadcast). ...
Read MoreQuadrantONE moseyed out of the gate last week, after a few false starts. It got good ink because it offered good numbers: a potential of 50 million unique visitors waiting to be served in 27 of the top 30 markets. The new network will leverage sites owned by its four co-owners, Gannett, ...
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