Researcher and writer for Poynter Institute on business and journalism issues. Co author, State of the News Media 2006. ExSP Times and Phil Inquirer
“In Philadelphia, reporters wonder whether major layoffs announced last fall don’t presage the folding of the Philadelphia Daily News which, unlike the Inquirer, has been losing money.”
So wrote Matt Cooper in a 1987 story about Knight Ridder. Matter of fact,… Read more
State and local governments are almost as pressed as newspapers these days to shave expenses in the face of falling revenues.
That has given fresh impetus to efforts that would allow municipalities to post all or some of their legal… Read more
We are loathe to do that. Though your assumption is not wrong -- some days, especially early in the week, have little advertising. ... But we are very cautious. When someone is in the habit of reading the paper every day, we don't want them to go somewhere else on Monday. ... I can't prove it, but I think (if home delivery was unavailable some days of the week), we might lose some of the circulation that helps us on Sundays."Sunday circulation at the Detroit Free Press, which began offering home delivery only three days a week three years ago fell from 605,000 in 2008 to 494,000 in 2010. (Because of auditing rule changes, more recent figures are not comparable.) (more...)
I was as puzzled as the next guy when I learned Sunday that the Philadelphia Media Network, publisher of the city’s two dailies, is on the auction block.
This comes a mere 17 months since a group of private… Read more
On Thursday, Media General — publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Tampa Tribune — reported a net loss for the fourth quarter of 2011 and for the full year.
That was not the really bad news, however.
Management… Read more
Voice of San Diego
In a tough profile, Rob Davis reports that the new owners of the San Diego Union Tribune have made numerous blunders in their first two months. Hotel magnate Doug Manchester has promised a boosterish news and… Read more
As a new revenue stream for newspaper organizations and other legacy media, video advertising has so far resembled a meandering creek more than a swift river.
From my Minnesota boyhood, I learned that you can walk across the headwaters of the Mississippi on… Read more
After three full years of preparation, the Associated Press and 28 other news organizations begin today an ambitious venture to license original news content and collect royalties from aggregators.
Variously known as the News Registry and News Licensing Group during its… Read more
The New York Times Co.’s clutch of 16 midsized and small newspapers was a relic of the prosperous pre-digital days of the 1980s and 1990s. Back then, the very comfortable margins at these properties (mostly in the Sun Belt)… Read more