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- What The Advance/Microsoft Deal Means For The Newspaper Business
- Ken Doctor analyzes the news business on his blog Content Bridges and for Outsell, an information-market analytics firm. He worked at Knight Ridder for 21 years and was an executive in content services, strategy and editorial for the company's digital unit.The Advance Internet-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) partnership announced today tells...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Gannett: See You Again in January
- Ken Doctor submits: Newspaper people like to think of themselves as good storytellers. But, lately, newspaper execs find themselves with fewer good storylines to share. In fact, Gannett GCI -- the world's largest newspaper company -- is going to tell its official stories less often. Of course, we'll see...
- External links 2008-10-30
- Detroit Newspapers Are Going Green
- Ken Doctor submits: As the Great Detroit Experiment begins, the industry owes them for acknowledging the obvious. As Lou Mleczko, president of the Detroit Newspaper Guild Local 22, reported: And [Detroit Media Partnership CEO David] Hunke said, if we don't do this, the current model is unsustainable. So he'd...
- External links 2008-12-17
- Times Extra Aims to Reclaim Digital Page One
- Ken Doctor submits: You remember the fight for the home page in the '90s? The home page was all -- "owning" the reader was news and media companies' intent. In addition, to various presentation strategies intended to increase "stickiness" (is there an online museum of over-used web buzzwords that...
- External links 2009-01-30
- Press One for News(paper) Emergency
- Ken Doctor submits: Imagine you'd left the planet some time just before the election and just returned. You'd find that suddenly someone's sounded a Press Emergency! First, it was Sarkozy calling his people to rally 'round the failing press - aux barricades, mes frères. Now, though, it's serious. ...
- External links 2009-02-12
- Deciphering Murdoch: Look for All-Access Pricing
- Ken Doctor submits: Face it. We're in a time that seriously lacks oracles. So, apparently, Rupert Murdoch passes for one, given his well-chiseled mien and occasional wont to make pronouncements. Now he's making a bit of midsummer news, with still another comment on charging for news: by Ken...
- External links 2009-08-06
- Last Man Standing: New York Times and Wall Street Journal Move on Metro Markets
- Ken Doctor submits: It's hard to gauge the impact of New York Times NYT and Wall Street Journal NWS moves into metro markets. They could be simple, print retention strategies aimed, at holding on to valuable print readers -- the magnets for still-lucrative print advertising -- for as long...
- External links 2009-11-13
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- WSJ Engages The NY Times on the Luxury Battlefield
- Ken Doctor submits: Yes, the rich are different. They may disproportionately affect which national newspaper "wins," as the Wall Street Journal increasingly targets the New York Times' readership and advertising dollars. The latest shot in the war will be launched Saturday, as the Journal debuts its new luxe,...
- External links 2008-09-04
- Nine Notes on Media Business
- Ken Doctor submits: As I train down to D.C. for the Online News Association conference (moderating a panel hopefully titled, Optimize and Monetize - if you're there, say hello), the dizzying news industry news of the last week raises more questions than answers. Here's my top nine of the...
- External links 2008-09-13
- Slate's New SAGA: The Big Money
- Ken Doctor submits: Ask Jim Ledbetter about his new site's driving idea, and he'll tell you that, in part, it really just comes down to four companies. It's the "SAGA manifesto" approach to business journalism, a term Ledbetter, editor of Slate's new The Big Money site came up with,...
- External links 2008-09-15
- 9 Questions on GooglyHoo
- Ken Doctor submits: You got your East Coast news. You got your West Coast news. Something about the cratering US financial system going on out there on the isle of Manhattan, sources tell me. Meanwhile, here on the Left Coast, it's round 74 of Google GOOG and Yahoo YHOO....
- External links 2008-09-16
- Newsweek Kindle and the New "Have It Your Way" Publishing
- Ken Doctor submits: After the pieces fall apart, put then back together. Or in the jargon of our trade, after seeing disaggregation, re-aggregate. News that Newsweek is leveraging the experimental Kindle AMZN to put together a package of its best election coverage over time, and making it available as...
- External links 2008-10-14
- Can Newspapers Make Money From the Funnies? King Features Is About To Find Out
- For newspapers, comics have an intangible value—a small group of readers are devoted to their favorite strips. But in general, newspapers haven't been able to turn that devotion into revenue. Hearst-owned King Features, one of the largest syndicators of newspaper comic strips, thinks it can change that with the...
- External links 2008-11-18
- Healthcare Roundup: Anthem Claims Delays, United's Online Doctor Plan, Allscripts' Hookup With Henry Schein, and More
- Claims Delays at Anthem - WellPoint has admitted to problems in processing physician claims at its Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield subsidiary. The Indiana and Ohio medical associations complained to their state insurance departments about the delays, which have lasted several months in some cases. An Anthem spokesperson attributed...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Media Roundup: Christian Science Monitor Drops Print Edition, Google Settles Book-Scanning Suit, and More
- The Christian Science Monitor goes online only -- The five-day-a-week newspaper will cease publishing a print edition and appear only on the web, in an effort to keep its foreign bureaus open while still cutting costs. [Source: The New York Times] Google settles book-scanning suit with authors...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Sam Zell's Plan D: It's All About Buying Time
- [Guest post by Ken Doctor, Content Bridges]Sam Zell's House of Cards has fallen flat. Today's bankruptcy filing changes everything and nothing. If we still have the capacity for amazement, after a year of subprime meltdown, worldwide recession and the election of Barack Obama, Tribune going banko would be stunning....
- External links 2008-12-09
- Newspapers rise to challenge of the internet.
- Byline: Neil Shoebridge May 14, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian newspapers are not on their death-beds, top industry executives claim. John Fairfax Holdings CEO David Kirk and News Limited CEO John Hartigan admit that the print sector...
- Research articles 2006-05-14
- Advance Signs Up For Microsoft's Ad Network
- One newspaper chain not joining the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium: Advance Publications. The owner of the Plain Dealer and Star-Ledger, along with 23 other dailies, has decided to sign up with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) instead. Advance sales staffs will now be able to sell advertising on Microsoft properties—including...
- External links 2009-08-17
- paidContent Quick Hits: 8.26.09
- » If Howard Stern decides to go online when his contract with Sirius (NSDQ: SIRI) ends in just over a year, it could be a game changer in the effort to monetize radio on the web. [NY Daily News]» William Morris Endeavor Entertainment is telling its authors to opt...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Small miracles for Ken Ward.
- Blessed Creator: Lot's to share since I last wrote. Where does one begin? First of all to the blessed folks in Northern Saskatchewan, let's dispel any rumors that I am gravely ill. It's not true. Best thing to do - check it out. Phone...
- Research articles 1999-04-01
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