Newsonomics: Poison Pill Swallowed, What’s Next For Reeling Gannett?

Sixty-three cents. That’s all it took to buy a share of Gannett at market close yesterday. The entire company — valued at $18.5 billion-with-a-“b” 15 years ago when it owned TV stations but many fewer newspapers, not to mention $823 million-with-an-“m” as recently as January — is today worth ...

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An Outbrain For Newspapers: Headlines Network Launches

You can call it Outbrain for newspapers, if you want. Or perhaps a tamer Taboola. Tim Landon doesn’t particularly care how you characterize his latest network effort. Just click on his widgets – which you’ll soon see on hundreds of daily newspaper sites across the country, starting over the ...

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What the Next Recession Could Do to The Media Business

Maybe it’s a blip. Maybe we’ll see the global stock market plunge of the last week as a hysterical overreaction to China’s economic woes. Or maybe, it’s the unwelcome, but real, signal that the economic recovery that the U.S. – and lately Europe – have enjoyed may be compromised. Certainly, ...

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Larry Kramer’s Exit Brings Some Answers, But More Questions for Standalone Gannett

USA Today Publisher Larry Kramer surprised a lot of people with his retirement, announced this morning. Yet, in the news, we see further clarified Gannett’s precedent-setting shift in editorial organization, which I wrote about last week (“What Are They Thinking: Larry Kramer and the reshaping ...

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What Are They Thinking? Larry Kramer and the Reshaping of Gannett

Will the new Gannett be like the old Gannett? The company is completing its split-up process. The goal: by July 1, the broadcast and digital assets investors covet will spin into TEGNA. That division follows in the broadcast/print separation footsteps of News Corp, Tribune, Media General, Belo ...

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