Researcher and writer for Poynter Institute on business and journalism issues. Co author, State of the News Media 2006. ExSP Times and Phil Inquirer
Three years ago, the Christian Science Monitor began a jump-in-the-deep-end version of digital transformation. The Monitor killed its five-day-a-week print edition, started a weekly magazine version and shifted daily operations entirely to the Web.
A protracted period, most of… Read more
When the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases six-month newspaper circulation totals Tuesday, it will be the first opportunity in 18 months to make valid apples-to-apples comparisons.
A complicated set of new rules was put in place, beginning September… Read more
The New York Times Co. deserves to pat itself on the back, as executives did today in announcing first quarter results, for the first anniversary of its well-planned and superbly executed digital pay plan.
The New York Times now has 454,000… Read more
Media General reported first quarter results today with big continuing problems outweighing a strong performance by its broadcast unit.
CEO Marshall Morton said in a conference call with investors that plans to sell all or most of its newspapers… Read more
Gannett is the first newspaper organization to report earnings this year, but the results were not appreciably better than the bleak patterns of 2011.
Print advertising continues to fall — 8.3 percent compared to the same period a year… Read more
If you look past last year’s numbers, good things are starting to happen in the industry, Newspaper Association of America president and CEO Caroline Little said, opening last week’s conference in Washington.
Having myself dished up many of those… Read more
Reading stories about the travails of non-media companies, I find myself drawn to analogies to the plight of the newspaper industry.
Thus I was stopped short a few weeks back by a New York Times report on a strategy… Read more
I’m not a fan of trying to predict major executive moves in the newspaper industry. (Who knows who will be the next CEO of The New York Times?) Once they do happen, though, as with CEO Gary Pruitt’s decision… Read more
The 9th annual State of the News Media report, released this morning, has enough statistics to float a boat. But two jumped out at me.
One: Through the first three quarters of 2011, print advertising losses outweighed digital ad… Read more
The Newspaper Association of America has posted its final tally of newspaper advertising statistics for 2011, and as expected, it is not a pretty picture.
Total advertising revenue was down 7.3 percent, a percentage point worse than in 2010.… Read more