Biz Blog: Rick Edmonds analyzes the latest media business developments.
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
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
Orono, Maine — On the evening of Jan. 13, I sat down with my home-delivered copy of The Bangor Daily News. I was drawn to an historical insert detailing the pasts of seven Maine businesses between 64 and 158… 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