Entries tagged "newspapers"

Verizon's dollars no good at Newsday

Despite acquiring Newsday for another advertising stream, Cablevision shut out competitor Verizon from advertising in the daily.

Ink-stained wretches: Newspaper sector update

A mere 14% of newspapers' costs arise from producing editorial content. For some, the cost imbalance is just the start of the problems.

FTC to examine news media via workshop

The FTC is sponsoring a workshop intended to create a body of knowledge on the newspaper industry.

Belo's Moroney: Kindle is not the future

Dallas Morning News CEO James Moroney says in Senate testimony that the Kindle is no biz model for newspapers.

Will Times Co. shut the Globe?

The Boston Globe management and its unions have reached a tentative agreement, but a major sticking point is lifetime job guarantees.

National Post to take Mondays off

CanWest's flagship National Post newspaper will not publish on Mondays for a nine-week period starting in June.

McClatchy goes from prince to pauper

McClatchy registered a net loss of $37.5 million in the first quarter, and there seems to be no relief in sight.

Sam Zell's mea culpa

The billionaire admits that acquiring Tribune was a blunder that certainly cost him a fortune.

Taste-It Note to save the newspaper biz?

U.S. Ink is promoting to newspapers a new type of advertising that allow readers to taste a product through taste strips.

Philadelphia newspaper industry feeling no love

The newspaper sector in Philadelphia took a big blow this past weekend when the Journal Register and Philadelphia Newspapers each filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Pilot Group's Pittman on media and the Internet

Robert Pittman, founder of consumer brand-focused investment firm the Pilot Group, gave the opening keynote at Columbia Business School's PE and Venture Capital conference.

Debating the future of newspapers and the Times

There's been a lively discussion this past week in the blogosphere over the plight of The New York Times. The genesis of it was a piece Michael Hirschorn tossed off in January's The Atlantic magazine positing, with thin evidence, that the Times was facing imminent demise and would have to radically cut everything from editorial to home delivery. On Wednesday, Silicon Alley Insider's Henry Blodget put some flesh on Hirschorn with a long post disguised as an analyst report arguing that the Times needed to cut 40% from overhead, boost delivery fees and charge for online to survive. That elicited...

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