There was some consternation in the media industry this week when the Chicago Tribune announced that it was letting more than 20 of its journalists go and handing over its local coverage to an outfit called Journatic, which looked to some like a “content farm” not unlike AOL’s hyper-local Patch unit. Meanwhile, Wired magazine wrote… [Read more…]
May 22, 2012
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett may be buying newspapers — a move that is probably as much about cash flow and real estate as it is a long-term investment thesis — but he can’t possibly buy them all, and that leaves the rest of the industry struggling to try and confront the issues that are causing… [Read more…]
May 17, 2012
Newspapers continue to dominate the local online media scene, making up 16 of the top 25 local online properties, according to The Media Audit’s annual local multimedia report. But television stations are gaining ground, the study found. Three of the top five properties and five of the top 10 were TV sites. Story continues after… [Read more…]
May 2, 2012
Anyone who has followed the media for the past half century or so knows that Bob Woodward is a giant in the field, one half of the legendary investigative team of Woodward and Bernstein — a man who helped to bring down a U.S. president and defined a generational shift in the practice of journalism.… [Read more…]
April 29, 2012
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon recently wrote about what he saw as a hypothetical business opportunity for the cash-strapped New York Times: namely, selling early access to news scoops like the paper’s expose on Walmart. The idea drew a fair amount of criticism (including some from me), and that critical reaction said a lot about where… [Read more…]
March 9, 2012
By Mark Coddington Cultural roots of news’ revenue problems: Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released this week one of the more interesting of its recent studies on the financial state of newspapers: It used (anonymized) private data from 38 newspapers and numerous interviews to paint a picture of how newspapers are fitting together the revenue puzzle… [Read more…]
February 27, 2012
In last month’s introduction to the 2020 Vision theory, I wrote that newspapers have reached a critical threshold where they must reinvent themselves now if they hope to be in business in the year 2020. In this installment, I look at a newspaper’s primary product — content — and how I believe that product must… [Read more…]
February 26, 2012
The Washington Post Co.’s profit slipped again due to advertising woes, but its key Kaplan education business seemed to be getting its feet back on the ground as student sign-ups grew for the first time in five quarters. New enrolments at Kaplan colleges rose three per cent for the October-december period, compared with the 30-to-45-per-cent… [Read more…]
February 7, 2012
The newest addition to the Politico newsroom makes a statement about the news Web site’s priorities. It’s a stage set with lights, microphones, an anchor desk and five high-definition cameras so that reporters and editors can produce hours of live programming for Internet viewers. The race is on at places that, until recently, did not… [Read more…]
January 31, 2012
Finally! The New York Times is coming out with its paid-for content strategy. A quick summary of the Gray Lady’s paywall plan: a monthly allotment of stories to be read for free and, above that, a flat fee for full access. Subscribers to the print version (including those who only get the Sunday paper) will… [Read more…]
December 17, 2011
- 17/12/11 El mercado de papel para diarios se encuentra completamente desregulado. A tal punto que casi un 30% del papel se utiliza en el país es importado. Cualquier medio de comunicación que no quiere comprarle a Papel Prensa podía recurrir a ese insumo – básico para las publicaciones – proveniente de Estados Unidos, Chile,… [Read more…]
December 8, 2011
For most of the past hundred years, the Supreme Court of Canada heard the occasional copyright case with significant cases popping up once every 10 or 20 years. That started to change in 2001 with a big case reaching Canada’s top court every year or two. While that seemed like a busy schedule, it is… [Read more…]
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