Carlie Kollath Wells
Feb. 20, 2013
7:44 am
Four top publishers Tuesday reaffirmed their commitment to print and discussed revenue ideas for bolstering their products.
The discussion was part of an executive roundtable at the
Key Executives Mega Conference in New Orleans.
The publishers of the Star Tribune Media Co., USA Today, The Omaha World-Herald and The Dallas Morning News talked about the revenue opportunities for their content.
For Jim Moroney at The Dallas Morning News, his company is converting the story archives into revenue through content marketing. Companies in the Dallas area are in need of content to populate company newsletters, websites and blogs, and the paper is making its archives available for customers of its digital agency. Clients’ monthly bills average $4,000 a month for services that include access to the archives.
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Steve Myers
Aug. 1, 2012
10:49 am
A.H. Belo Corp.
A.H. Belo says in its second-quarter earnings report that it will increase its investment in 508 Digital, "a new division at The Dallas Morning News that provides digital marketing solutions for underserved small and medium-sized businesses," from $3 million to $4 million this year. It expects to make $1.5 million from 508 Digital.
On the other hand, the company has scaled back a $4 million advertising and marketing campaign for the newspaper. It now plans to spend $2 million to $2.5 million on that this year.
Like other companies, A.H. Belo's print advertising is down more than its digital revenue is up. Overall revenue didn't decline as much as it did in the first quarter, however. Second-quarter earnings were $262,000, a margin of 0.25 percent.
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Charles Apple
Nov. 22, 2011
5:21 pm
AJR
"We have far from given up on the print model. We're not modeling how to diminish it," James Moroney, publisher and CEO of The Dallas Morning News, tells Caitlin Johnston of the American Journalism Review. "I still think the seven-day-a-week business can be sustainable for another decade." Last month, the News' vice president for audience, Mark Medici,
told the Inland Press Association conference that "we know in three years we won’t have a seven-day paper"; Moroney
later said that it was all a “misstatement or a misunderstanding.”
Related: Medici
named vice president of audience and digital strategy for the Austin American-Statesman.
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Steve Myers
Nov. 15, 2011
12:58 pm
Cox Media Group
Cox has named Mark Medici vice president of audience and digital strategy for the Austin American-Statesman. You may recall Medici as The Dallas Morning News executive who said last month at a conference that the News' Sunday circulation has increased since it instituted its paywall, "which is fine because we know in three years we won’t have a seven-day paper." The comment caused a minor storm; News publisher James Moroney responded that Medici's comment, which he didn't recall making, was either a “misstatement or a misunderstanding.” Moroney said the News, which has a larger circulation than the Austin paper, has no plans to discontinue daily printing. ||
Earlier: Dallas executive says paper won't be printed seven days a week; publisher
says no plans to discontinue daily printing (Poynter.org)
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Steve Myers
Oct. 18, 2011
6:24 pm
Poynter.org
Earlier today I reported that Mark Medici, vice president for audience at The Dallas Morning News, said Monday during a session at the Inland Press Association conference
that the newspaper won't be printed seven days a week in three years. James Moroney, publisher and CEO of the News, tells me that Medici doesn't recall saying such a thing and that it was either a "misstatement or a misunderstanding." Moroney says the newspaper's leadership has never concluded that "discontinuing seven days of print is a good business model" and that "we have no other plans than to continue seven days of the print edition."
Here's his entire statement:
We have had many calls today about a statement attributed to Mark Medici, that we would not be publishing a print edition of The Dallas Morning News every day of the week within three years. We spoke to Mark, who did not recall making any such statement. Whether a misstatement or a misunderstanding, what we do know is that we have never come to a conclusion that we would be discontinuing seven days of the printed edition of The Dallas Morning News. So, while this was a fascinating statement for a lot of people to read, it inaccurately describes the belief we have as a team about the durability of the seven day print model. We hope this puts to rest any questions on this issue.
When I pressed him to clarify if the company has considered stopping printing on any day, he responded:
I mean that we have never concluded that discontinuing seven days of print is a good business model. We have never concluded it in the past and we don't think so presently. We have no other plans than to continue seven days of the print edition.
Besides the live blog of the event, which reported Medici's statement, I have heard from two people in the audience who said the account on the blog was accurate.
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Steve Myers
Oct. 18, 2011
12:27 pm
Inland Press Association | Alan English
Mark Medici, vice president of audience for The Dallas Morning News, said Monday during a talk at the Inland Press Association conference in Chicago that the newspaper won't print seven days a week in three years. Describing the News' paid content strategy —
the site's paywall went up in March — Medici said, according to a live blog of the event, that the A.H. Belo-owned newspaper has seen a massive uptick in Sunday subscribers, "which is fine because we know in three years we won't have a seven-day paper." Sunday subscribers get full access to the website. (Thanks to Alan English, executive editor of The Augusta Chronicle,
for alerting us via tweet). In March 2009, The Detroit Free Press (owned by Gannett) and The Detroit News (a MediaNews paper)
started to deliver papers only three days a week — Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, when the papers have more ads and are popular with readers — although the papers are available every day on newsstands. Six months in, Poynter's Bill Mitchell
reported that the newspapers were not yet making money. I've emailed Medici for more information and will update if/when I learn more. ||
Update: James Moroney, publisher and CEO of the Dallas Morning News, tells me that
Medici doesn’t recall saying such a thing and that it was either a “misstatement or a misunderstanding.” (Read his
complete statement.)
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Jim Romenesko
July 27, 2011
5:50 pm
Dallas Observer
Seven full-timers and two part-timers lose jobs with Quick's demise. Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney says closing the free weekly was "a difficult decision, but frankly, it had been mostly a break-even proposition for the past few years." (When the tabloid launched in 2003,
Moroney said he expected it to be profitable in about three years.)
Look, I was very, very excited and very, very invested in the creation and launch of Quick in '03 and took a lot of pride in it and felt very personal about it. It was something we developed on my watch, and that makes it all the harder that you're going to shut it down.
The paper's
goal at launch was to reach "time-starved" professionals who are "always on the run." In June, the Baltimore Sun
turned its youth-aimed daily into a weekly and beefed up its website, saying "this move acknowledges younger consumers’ media habits - they go online repeatedly throughout the day."
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Damon Kiesow
Jan. 19, 2011
2:27 pm
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Damon Kiesow
Jan. 4, 2011
9:31 am
The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News will launch new iPad and iPhone apps this month in conjunction with plans to move to a paid content model in February.
Brendan Case reports that the new initiative will launch on … Read more
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