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- Newspapers 'Rightsizing'? More Like Frightsizing
- Ken Doctor submits: The news is out: Newspaper companies can no longer afford reporters and editors. Yesterday's L.A. Times announcement is the latest to catch a news cycle of public attention. As well it should. A 17% cut -- 150 newsroom jobs -- is an unnatural disaster. It's the...
- External links 2008-07-03
- L.A. Times to Cut 250 Jobs, 150 in Editorial
- By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times will slash 250 jobs, including 150 in the newsroom, and trim its published pages by 15 percent in an effort to save money in the face of declining revenues, the newspaper said...
- News items 2008-07-02
- Can A New Netflix-Like Service Save the Magazine Industry?
- Julia Boorstin submits: The magazine business has been searching for a solution. Sure putting content online helps grow ad revenue. But some people do still like flipping those glossy pages. With more and more people shifting their reading online, how do you grow the sale of physical magazines. Time...
- External links 2008-06-29
- The Latest Nail In Newspapers' Coffin: Outsourcing
- Julia Boorstin submits: The newspaper business has been struggling to reinvent itself to compete. Now the Orange County Register is trying a new way to cut costs: outsourcing to India. Mindworks Global Media will copy edit some of the papers' stories for a one-month trial starting next week. And...
- External links 2008-06-26
- Yahoo and the Newspaper Publishers: Playing with Fire
- Ken Doctor submits: As Yahoo YHOO burns, the newspaper industry watches, hoping it won't get singed. The Google/Yahoo search ad agreement has drawn lots of comments over the past couple of weeks, but its impact on newspaper consortium members has gotten little attention. The deal itself, if implemented,...
- External links 2008-06-24
- Newspapers Ads and Circulation Continue to Decline
- Julia Boorstin submits: Newspapers are breaking records -- and it's not a good thing. A double-digit drop in newspaper ad revenue, the third consecutive year of declines, and record margin contraction makes this the industry's worst year ever. The newspaper industry's ad revenue is down 12 percent this year,...
- External links 2008-06-24
- Why Newspapers Must Embrace RSS
- Felix Salmon submits: Last week, Research Recap featured a Forrester study entitled "The Fragmentation of Yesterday's Newspaper". A mention of RSS feeds piqued my interest, and Forrester was kind enough to send me a copy today. The conclusions of the report are, I...
- External links 2008-06-23
- How Low Will Gannett Go?
- Steve Alexander submits: The stock price of newspaper giant Gannett GCI has resembled a double black diamond ski slope over the past year. Now, this well known publisher of USA Today and many regional daily newspapers is a very highly ranked Magic Formula stock with a dirt cheap P/E ratio...
- External links 2008-06-22
- Digital and Mobile Media Spending Set to Double Share by 2012
- Research Recap submits: Digital and mobile distribution should more than double its share of global media and entertainment spending in the next five years, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Although digital and mobile distribution comprised only 5 percent of global entertainment and media (E&M) spending in 2007, these...
- External links 2008-06-19
- McClatchy's Guantanamo Series: Timely Point Amid Cutbacks
- Ken Doctor submits: There are two kinds of newspaper stories these days. One kind is the old-fashioned one that tell us something we don't know. The others --- now feeding on themselves in near-frenzy -- tell us about the unabated decline of the newspaper trade itself. Sometimes,...
- External links 2008-06-18
- Newspapers' 'Near Death Spiral,' Courtesy Web 2.0
- Research Recap submits: Just as newspapers start to figure out how to make some revenue via the Internet, Web 2.0 is changing the rules and further fragmenting their diminishing audiences. Forrester Research details the impact that blogs and RSS feeds are having on newspapers in a...
- External links 2008-06-17
- AP Hands Local and National News Sites an Opportunity to Get Links and Traffic
- The Associated Press is facing a blog firestorm after issuing take down notices to Drudge Retort for linking to and reproducing snippets of AP stories. AP is now attempting to define how their stories can be linked to and excerpted — and the response from the blogosphere appears to be...
- External links 2008-06-17
- Washington Post Says Bernanke Will Not Raise Rates
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke does not intend to raise interest rates because he is more worried about soaring oil prices slowing global growth than he is about their firing inflation, the Washington Post said on Monday. A...
- News items 2008-06-16
- LA Times' Madness Is Brand Suicide
- Ken Doctor submits: I'd like to read the Los Angeles Times manual on "how to deal with difficult situations." Though it's never been made public, it's clear it's been infiltrated by those disseminating disinformation. The result: no matter what seems to happen at the Times in the last several...
- External links 2008-06-12
- Newspapers: Can Less News Create Higher Margins?
- Julia Boorstin submits: There's no question the newspaper business is in trouble. The question IS: Can Sam Zell, chairman of the Tribune Company, build a profitable business in an industry that's in decline? Last week, Zell announced his plan to slash 500 pages of news from the company's dozen...
- External links 2008-06-10
- What Magazines Don?t Understand About the Web
- Since I already drilled a nerve with What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web, which is on its way to becoming one of my most linked posts ever — and since everyone loves a sequel — I thought I would do a follow up for magazines. The lessons, of...
- External links 2008-06-10
- Memo to Print: It?s the Multiples
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Back in March 2007, I penned Stop the Newspaper Obituary, Please, commenting that in essence, yes the print business is shrinking, but that the main culprit was the price-to-sales and price-to-earnings multiples that print businesses were fetching. In fact, back then (roughly 13 months ago),...
- External links 2008-06-07
- If Your Users Fail, Your Website Fails
- On the web, in the age of Google GOOG, design has no margin of error, and there are no stupid users, only inadequate designs. Those were the main points of my critique of newspaper websites generally, and WashingtonPost.com WPO in particular, which to be fair, apply to all online publishers,...
- External links 2008-06-06
- Print Is Toast - Ballmer
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Microsoft MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer sat down for lunch with editors and reporters at the Washington Post and told them print will be dead in ten years: There will be no media consumption left in ten years that is not delivered over an...
- External links 2008-06-06
- Ballmer on Newspapers: Wrong Again
- Mathew Ingram submits: There’s lots of buzz out there about how Microsoft MSFT supremo Steve Ballmer figures the newspaper will be dead in 10 years — oh yes, and magazines too. Here’s what he said to the Washington Post: Here are the premises I have. Number one, there...
- External links 2008-06-06
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