Biz Blog: Rick Edmonds analyzes the latest media business developments.
Gannett’s fourth quarter earnings report this week put to rest the idea that digital paid subscriptions will only work for the biggest newspaper organizations like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. They are proving a spectacular success … Read more
After nearly five years’ gestation, the first sectioned compact paper in the United States, using an innovative “three-around” technology, will be published Jan. 28 in Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus Dispatch Editor Benjamin Marrison announced the start date in a column Sunday… Read more
Total revenues are not yet headed in the right direction, but investors still liked what they saw in the newspaper industry last year and bid up share prices accordingly.
Six of eight publicly traded companies showed gains for 2012; four … Read more
Newspapers are on the fringe of this year’s annual UBS investors media conference in New York. Still, the meeting has provided a window on growing momentum in the industry for paid digital subscription plans.
E.W. Scripps is late to the … Read more
The 40th annual UBS media conference will kick off Monday in New York with one of its regulars missing. The New York Times Co. has opted not to present this year.
One might guess that has to do with newly … Read more
Newspaper advertising revenues were down 5.1 percent in the third quarter, compared to the same period in 2011, the Newspaper Association of America reported over the holiday.
The results were marginally … Read more
I am a huge David Carr fan. Great writer, great eye for news-about-news, a shoe-leather reporter when he needs to be (as when driving the frat boys from the Tribune Co. executive suite). Plus he originated the delightful … Read more
For several years, Sunday editions have been the brightest star in a fading constellation for print newspapers. When circulation numbers were falling, Sunday routinely did better than daily. As recently as the Audit Bureau of Circulations spring report six months … Read more
For more than a year, 12 major newspaper companies have been assembling assets for a new pursuit of digital shopping revenues, playing off their existing base of preprinted inserts.
Their new company, Wanderful Media, received little attention when it was … Read more
