The Newsonomics of Eight Per Cent Reach

That 92-percent “open” market — maybe 23 million businesses — tells us how early we are in this digital marketing movement. Commerce change is one thing. For those who care about the news, the big thing to watch is whether those dollars, as they move digitally, move to companies that produce ...

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Guardian’s Sale of Regional Newspapers Indicates Lasting Change

And time is running through the hourglass too quickly. Both Carolyn McCall and Sly Bailey are trying to transition their companies, on the fly, into more digitally oriented enterprises, and both are trying to use the stress of time to their advantage. For McCall, that means focusing news ...

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Nine Questions: Rupert’s Dollar Sale, Self-Service Ad Revolution, the California Watch Model and JO’s Tech Friends

Charging for non-desktop/laptop access should be a new revenue stream for news publishers. The math, though, isn't huge. Who is most likely to pay for Journal mobile? Presumably it's online subscribers, of whom there are about a million. So $12 a year, if all of them signed up, would be $12 ...

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