San Diego’s Union Tribune: Out of the Private Equity Pot and Into Local...
It makes so much sense. Who’s left to buy (and maybe pay too much) for America’s declining metro dailies than political advocates? The San Diego Union-Tribune moves back to private ownership, after...
View ArticleNow at (Fire) Sale Prices: A Few Daily Newspapers…and Maybe More
The deep freeze in the U.S. newspaper market thawed a bit over the last couple of weeks. There really hasn’t been much of a market for metro newspapers for almost half a decade. With advertising...
View ArticleNew New York Times Plan: (Digital) World Domination
Talk about a December surprise. News is being poured, or leaked, out of the New York Times Company with unexpected near-Christmas volume. Today’s news that the Times Company is finally selling its New...
View ArticleBillionaire Bingo, MP11 Remover & The Missing Paper Finder: Little-Known 2011...
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab The web has been filled with wondrous predictions about 2012. Some of them will even prove true. Yet I think we’ve been missing some of the most important...
View ArticleNine Questions for the Cusp of 2012: NewsRight, Erin Burnett’s Screens, Gail...
1. Will new NewsRight’s Bigger Carrot, Smaller Stick approach to news content usage win? Today, NewsRight –owned by 29 news companies, and anchored by the Associated Press’ News Registry — goes public....
View ArticleAt Almost 400,000 Digital Subscribers, Inside the New York Times Pay...
The numbers have quieted most of the skeptics, including Clay Shirky. Today, the New York Times summed up a year of its digital circulation strategy, and the report reinforced the notion: there’s a...
View ArticleMcClatchy’s Gary Pruitt Scales the AP Mountain
Associated Press board members — the newspaper CEOs who populate the board — opted for one of their own when they picked McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt as their new leader . By historical measure, it’s a...
View ArticleDean Baquet: “This is going to sound arrogant, but…..”
Ah, collaborative investigative journalism. Sounds noble. The nation’s top investigative watchdogs convened last weekend to figure out how to better get the work of public interest,...
View ArticleBerkshire Hathaway Media Group: Financial Engineering Makes the Deal
Warren Buffett, newspaper mogul of the 21st Century. The notion is enough to throw many off course. A billionaire philanthropist buying into the woebegone American newspaper industry does make a good...
View ArticleNew Orleans’ Forced March to Digital
John Paton may be getting most of the Digital First headlines, but behind the scenes the digital first pressures are building up on publishers on both sides of the Atlantic. Today, we hear that the...
View ArticleNine Questions as Murdoch Splits the News Corp Baby
“Here now, give me the knife. I’ll do the cutting,” we can almost hear Rupert saying, as News Corp formally looks (“The newsonomics of the News Corp split“) to divide up the bright, ever-happy global...
View ArticleDavid Westin’s Departure Raises New Questions About NewsRight’s Viability
NewsRight, the U.S. daily newspaper’s industry latest attempt to use its heft to compete and negotiate in the digital news world, will now try to right itself. Today, it will announce the departure of...
View Article12 Business-Building Lessons from Skift’s Rafat Ali
Rafat Ali is a tweener and twofer. He’s both a journalist and an entrepreneur. He understands audiences and technologies. He knows the news business inside out and likes to spend lots of time in the...
View ArticleBBC’s Mark Thompson Jumps Out of the Frying Pan and into the New York Times...
Now, we don’t know for sure, but, maybe, in the New York Times’ CEO job description was this line: “Proven battle scars with Rupert Murdoch a plus.” That’s just of many key attributes Mark Thompson,...
View ArticleThe USA Today Redesign: Too Little, Too Early?
It’s hard to know what to make of the USA Today re-do. It touts itself as a re-imagining, which may be a bit hyperbolic. God only knows how much time people spent on the redesigned logo (must-read...
View ArticleFor New York Times’ Sake, Mark Thompson Should Step Aside
Follow-on post: The New York Times and the Thompson Effect: Blow Over or Blowback? Scandals are the order of the day, from David Petraeus’ emergency resignation this week to the implosion of BBC...
View ArticleThe New York Times and the Thompson Effect: Blow Over or Blowback?
It’s not exactly the entrance Mark Thompson had planned for his first day at the Times, but it’s an entrance. Call it dis-harmonic convergence. In the days leading up to and including his first day on...
View ArticleNine Questions on the News Corp Split: The Rise of Twenty-First Century Fox...
Related weekend post — The Newsonomics of Rupert Murdoch’s Long Game — up at the Nieman Journalism Lab It turned out that the news of Robert Thomson’s appointment as head of the News Corp’s new...
View ArticleNYT & Mark Thompson’s First Report: Unsteady as She Goes
New York Times watchers were looking forward to hearing new CEO Mark Thompson’s plummy tones this morning, as he hosted the company’s quarterly earnings report for the first time. This report also...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of the Orange County Register’s contrarian paywall
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab Get your hot dogs. Get your beer. Get your newspaper. Step right up. As Opening Day comes to the Big A in Anaheim on Tuesday, you can now expect to hear that...
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