Researcher and writer for Poynter Institute on business and journalism issues. Co author, State of the News Media 2006. ExSP Times and Phil Inquirer
Two months after opening for business, NewsRight, the news licensing agency created by the Associated Press and 28 other news organizations, has its first client.
It’s not Huffington Post or Google News or Flipboard. Rather, as NewsRight president David… Read more
After 18 months of work and countless pinky-shake vows of confidentiality, my colleagues at the Project for Excellence In Journalism have a fresh report out today on the newspaper industry’s search for a new business model.
The report, “The… Read more
By last summer, The New York Times was well into the metered-model phase of its website, and many midsized and small papers were adopting variations.
But there was a pocket of resistance. Few metros were making the move. They… Read more
“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