Newsonomics: What’s The Sound Of A Tronc Crashing?

Thursday marked a day of reckoning for Tronc. The company — the last big public newspaper company to report year-end earnings — released those numbers for 2017. They weren’t good, as I had signaled in my earlier reporting on the chaos at and subsequent sale of the Los Angeles Times. But what ...

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Newsonomics: Tronc “Crashes”, DFM Owner Sued, News Guard Funded, Advance Tiptoes Into Paywalls — and The Big Lesson From Hypergrowing The Athletic

Is it really only the beginning of March? The news business’ gyrations seem to be moving at warp speed this year, and particularly this week, as two newspaper companies long in the news make new big moves. As Tronc reckons with the crash of its stock price and oh-so-private Alden Global Capital ...

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The Newsonomics of U.S. Media Concentration

Is it just imported theater, though? We have to wonder how much the cries of “media monopoly” will cross the Atlantic. Is there much resonance here in the States for the outrage about media power in the U.K.? Will the sins (its newspaper unit now being called to account by a Parliamentary ...

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The Newsonomics of the New ABCs of Journalism

Just as the digital marketing world has increasingly provided agencies and advertisers with a trove of audience data, the print world is slowly responding. While advertisers can only track these differing print niches with differing coupon codes, or a spectrum of differing 1-800 call-in ...

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Does the Newspaper Industry Need a Strategy?

In fact, lower-cost entrants -- AOL, Yahoo/Associated Content, Demand +++ -- aren't just pests; they're changing the economics of producing content. That's not a small issue. It may well lead the next wave of disruption.

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Nailing Los Numeros

Edmonds' final point for the handful of us in the analytic trade -- and those who follow the industry -- it will soon be quite difficult to compare the new numbers to the old ones (after a couple more old reporting periods come and go). That's true. The optics may seem better down the road, but ...

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