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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
The Associated Press Offers Platform To Publishers For Building Mobile Apps
The Associated Press said today it will start helping publishers build mobile apps for a wide variety for platforms, including Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre and Windows Mobile. The white-label solution was developed by Verve Wireless, which built the AP Mobile platform. Release.The offer...
Tags: Mobile, Associated Press, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, Tricia Duryee
External links 2009-11-06
NYT, WSJ Explore Localized Editions; San Francisco First Up?
The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times already localize some advertising, delivering inserts or print ads aimed at specific areas within their national footprints. Material syndicated by the WSJ also appears in the Sunday business sections of some papers on branded pages. Now, the NYT reports,...
Tags: Wall Street Journal, NYT, Poynter, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, New York Times, News Corp., Dow Jones, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-05
NAA: Total Newspaper Ad Revenues Drop 29 Percent; Online Falls 16 Percent
Newspaper company profits may have rebounded somewhat in Q2, but the Newspaper Association of America’s latest study show revenues continued to slump significantly. In total, combined print and online revs sank 29 percent to $6.8 billion from last year’s $9.6 billion. Online presented no respite, as the category fell...
Tags: Advertisement, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Research & Metrics, Research, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-28
Google News' Italian Problem
Newspapers complaining about Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News? Not new. But in Italy, they’ve actually managed to spur the government into investigating whether the company has abused its dominant position on the internet. The Italian Competition Authority searched the company’s offices in Milan this morning, according to several news reports.The...
Tags: Google Inc., Google News, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Legal, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Google, Countries, Europe, Italy, Joseph Tartakoff
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
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
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
UK Newspapers Want £1 Million From Aggregators; 5p A Link
The Newspaper Licensing Agency tells paidContent:UK it wants news monitoring companies and “content-scraping” aggregators to give it “circa 10 percent” of their revenues for the privilege. At the NLA’s estimate, aggregators and PR monitors like Moreover and Newsnow make a combined £10 million in annual revenue, meaning £1 million...
Tags: Revenue, Monitoring, Biz, Newspaper Licensing Agency, NLA, Andrew Hughes, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Patrick Smith
External links 2009-08-28
OC Register's Parent Freedom To File For Ch 11; Hand Over to Lenders
Freedom Communications, the parent of PC Register and 30 other regional newspapers, will become the latest news media company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week, according to reports in WSJ and NYT. With this filing, the company will be handed over to its lenders, but will...
Tags: Lender, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-08-30
The Economist Tests Phone-Based Delivery Service
Add this to the list of paid content scenarios currently being tested by news publishers ... The Economist has rolled out an cellphone-based delivery service in New York, per AdAge. Each Thursday, the financial publication will send out a text detailing the topics for the coming week’s issue, complete...
Tags: Phone, Economist, Sales Strategy, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, E-Commerce, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Mobile, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-09-03
Bakersfield Paper May Shutter Community Sites: 'They Never Made Us Money'
The Bakersfield Californian has been something of a pioneer in spinning out community web sites from its main newspaper site. But now, as practically every newspaper is rushing to build up their social-media offerings, The Californian’s John Wells tells AIM Group’s Classified Intelligence Report PDF only that the paper’s...
Tags: Paper, Site, Blogging, Internet, Advertising, Local, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Social Media, Community, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-03
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
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
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