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The decline of the newspaper means ransom notes, papier-mâché and slacker gift wrapping will never be the same.
Tags: nyse, nasdaq, invest, investing, stock stock exchange, stocks, wallstrip, julie alexandria, howard lindzon, fish wrap, periodical, sony bravia, blood pressure, sports section, new york times, craigslist, usa today, newspapers, Newspaper
Videos 2008-07-02
E W Scripps Reorgs Newspaper Division
E W Scripps, the newspaper and TV media company, has started its reorg process, with a reshuffling the management overseeing its 13 daily newspapers, with an eye to “put increased emphasis on community-changing local content and peak-performing advertising sales,” in their own humble words (via E&P). The company has...
Tags: Marketing Research, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Scripps, E W Scripps, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-08-26
Alt Weekly Chain Creative Loafing Sold To Creditor For $5 Million
Creative Loafing, the second largest alt-weekly chain in the country, has been sold to hedge fund and creditor Atalaya Capital Management for $5 million. Creative Loafing filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September, only a year after purchasing the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper, in a deal that...
Tags: City Paper Co., Chicago Reader Inc., Litigation, Investment, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Finance, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Money, Bankruptcy, M&A & Venture Capital, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-08-25
Interview: About.com's Cella Irvine On The Site's New Ad-Sales Approach
If Cella Irvine had her way, she probably would have picked a different year to take over the CEO seat at the About Group. Like most media properties, About.com has been hit by a declining display market and a disastrous economy. About’s string of healthy revenue growth has, in...
Tags: Revenue, About Inc., Advertisement, CPC, Advertiser, NYTCo, Operational Accounting, Finance, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Health Content, Newspapers, Online News, Research & Metrics, Research, Companies, New York Times, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-25
Gannett, AP Won't Agree To New SEC Online Media Rules
Tim Tebow and the University of Florida Gators head the Associated Press pre-season football poll by a wide margin but the AP may not be in the stadium to cover their season opener against Charleston Southern. AP won’t be able to pick up coverage from member chain Gannett (NYSE:...
Tags: Associated Press, SEC, Gannett Co. Inc., Online Media, Games, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-24
Monster.com Founder Sees A Healthy Future In Death Listings
This is a tough time for jobs sites. And, for that matter, the economy has constrained advertisers from spending on the health content market. So with that in mind, last fall, Monster.com founder and former CEO Jeff Taylor created a spinoff from his healthy living site Eons.com aimed at...
Tags: Monster, Boston.com, Site, Tributes.com, Eons, Advertising, E-Commerce, Classifieds Business, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Social Media, Companies, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-24
Slate Ends Print News Summaries; Will Offer Thrice-Daily Recaps Instead
Slate magazine has retired one of the earliest news aggregators, as its daily print news summary Today’s Papers is making way for The Slatest. The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company-owned online mag’s editor David Plotz tells the NYT that news moves a lot faster these days than it did...
Tags: SLATE, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, Washington Post, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-24
Out of Little Rock: A Model for Murdoch
[by Andrew Clark] Tucking into a pulled pork platter in a Little Rock barbecue restaurant, the publisher of Arkansas’s largest newspaper appears an unlikely pioneer for the global media industry. Bald, bespectacled and with a penchant for panama hats, he is about as old-school as they come.But Walter Hussman...
Tags: Newspaper, Advertisement, Industry, Arkansas, Web Site, Internet, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, MediaGuardian
External links 2009-08-23
Tribune To Sell Control Of Cubs, Wrigley Field To Ricketts Family For $845 Million
After a tortured budding process dating back more than two years, the bankrupt Tribune Co. is selling the Ricketts family 95 percent of the Chicago Cubs and iconic Wrigley Field for about $845 million —pending approval by Major League Baseball and a federal bankruptcy court. The deal, which would...
Tags: Tribune Co., Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Tribune, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-21
Non-Profit Option For Boston Globe Isn't Getting A Lot Of Love
Platinum Equity, the private equity firm that is still slashing away at costs at the San Diego Union-Tribune, is one of two bidders for the Boston Globe invited to on-site meetings, according to the paper, citing unidentified sources. Also invited, the Globe reports, the group led by former Globe...
Tags: Boston Globe, Exec, Globe, Sales Strategy, Investment, Team Management, Leadership, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Management, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, New York Times, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-21
Philadelphia Media Holdings Gets New Local Owners If Creditors, Bankruptcy Judge Approve
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com will live to fight another day—and with new owners—if creditors and a bankruptcy judge approve a plan filed late Thursday by publisher Philadelphia Media Holdings, LLC. Under the plan, a local group led by home building exec and PMH Chairman Bruce Toll...
Tags: Creditor, Bankruptcy, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Legal, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-21
Arkansas Papers Ask Feds To Approve Joint Venture
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc., publisher of the state’s largest paper, and Stephens Media, owner of The Morning News and weeklies in Arkansas and Missouri, want to merge their Northwest Arkansas properties into a joint venture with equal interests. The two have asked the U.S. Department of Justice for permission, and...
Tags: Newspaper, Democrat-Gazette, Financial Accounting, Finance, Legal, Regulatory, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-03
Tribune Bondholders Demand Court Examine Zell's Buyout For Possible Fraud
Tribune bondholders are accusing Chairman and CEO Sam Zell of fraud in his $8.2 billion deal to take the company private as part of their efforts to halt a bankruptcy plan unfavorable to them.  While the filing isn’t likely to succeed, as the WSJ notes, the bondholders could succeed...
Tags: Tribune Co., Bondholder, Fraud, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Legal, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Money, Bankruptcy, Companies, Tribune, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-27
The Future Of News Is Scarcity
Nic Brisbourne is a partner at European venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, investing in software and media. He was previously an associate with Reuters Venture Capital and an executive at Cazenove Private Equity. He blogs at The Equity Kicker...News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and other traditional news businesses are hand-wringing...
Tags: Scarcity, Industry, Story, News, Nic Brisbourne, News Industry, Newspaper Industry, Strategy, Venture Capital, Food & Beverage, Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Manufacturing, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, News Corp.
External links 2009-08-27
Will Alabama Football Fans Pay For New Tuscaloosa Sports Blog?
The conventional wisdom among media executives is that if newspaper readers will pay for any online content, it’s most likely going to be financial news and possibly sports news. The Tuscaloosa News is about to put that to the test. The New York Times-owned paper has started a subscription-based...
Tags: Blog, Site, Alabama, Tuscaloosa News, Financial Accounting, Finance, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Social Media, Companies, New York Times, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-02
Taking The Plunge: How Newspaper Sites That Charge Are Faring
As more newspapers kick around the idea of charging for content, much of the attention has been focused on the pay models employed by the bigger players like the WSJ and the Financial Times. But quietly, some small- and medium-circulation papers are coming up with their own formulas to...
Tags: Paper, Web Site, Subscription, Wall, Website Traffic, Morning Star, Construction, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-09-02
The News is NowPublic: Cit-J Site Sold To Anschutz's Examiner.com; Price Around $25 Million
You’re reading it here first: After several months of trying to get the deal done, Citizen-J site NowPublic is about to be sold to a non-traditional buyer: local news network Examiner.com, which is controlled by Philip Anschutz’s Clarity Media Group, we have learned. The price is around $25 million...
Tags: America Online Inc., stages.Vancouver-based NowPublic, Entrepreneurship, Networking, Management, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-01
Freedom Communications Files For Ch. 11 With More Than $1 Billion Debt
Freedom Communications is running a series of bold promos on its corporate front page but nothing about the publisher’s biggest news: its Chapter 11 filing in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware today. The Irvine, Calif.-based private company, which owns the Orange County Register and 32 other dailies, along with...
Tags: Litigation, Personal Finance, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Legal, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, TV, Broadcast, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-01
Pittsburgh Daily To Try 'Members Only' News Site
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is dipping its toe in the paid-content waters with a new subscription site dubbed PG+. The site, to be announced Tuesday, will feature original content, though it will be produced by the same columnists and reporters that put out the paper’s print and online editions. PG+...
Tags: Site, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Social Networking, Construction, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-31
Hearst Preps Beauty Site As Advertisers Find New Attractions Online
Sensing that beauty advertisers are loosening their purse strings when it comes to online advertising, Hearst is readying a site called Real Beauty for launch next month. WSJ puts Hearst’s site launch at the center of a wave of new technology that is bringing a bit of the in-store...
Tags: Hearst Corp., Advertiser, Real Beauty, Gender And Diversity, Branding, Human Resources, Marketing, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Women-Centric Content, Newspapers, Social Media, Companies, Hearst, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-31
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