Posts under ‘News Business’

Mark Cuban: The Google Brilliance applied to Newspapers and Local Media. You might not be as efficient in monetization as Google, but most of your customers will never know the difference. All they will know is that you have earned their trust as the company that handles all their advertising and website ad publishing needs […]

Mark Potts: Rolling a Hand Grenade Down the Hall. Let’s roll a hand grenade down the hall. Let’s try blowing up the very concept of a metro newspaper and thinking about it in an entirely new form. Instead of a big, one-size-fits-all newspaper/Web site, let’s reimagine the local news product as a group of much […]

Aftonbladet is Sweden’s biggest afternoon tabloid newspaper. It’s part of a media group, Schibsted, that has been leading the way globally in making the essential moves from print to the Internet. (See this Economist story for more details.) Aftonbladet’s Web team has done some remarkable things, but one achievement is fairly far ahead of the […]

NY Times: 176 Newspapers to Form a Partnership With Yahoo. A consortium of seven newspaper chains representing 176 daily papers across the country is announcing a broad partnership with Yahoo to share content, advertising and technology, another sign that the wary newspaper business is increasingly willing to shake hands with the technology companies they once […]

The Baltimore Sun reports that “College papers deliver“: Spurred by research indicating that about 76 percent of the nation’s 6 million full-time college undergraduates read their campus papers at least occasionally, big corporations and advertisers are latching onto student-run publications. Here’s one reason. College newspapers are relentlessly local. They cover essentially one thing — the […]

It’s called The Lede, and I’m still not quite sure what the mission is despite this description: In the news business, the opening sentences of a story are referred to as its “lede” — spelled that way, journalism lore has it, to avoid confusion with the lead typesetting that once dominated newspaper printing presses. Although […]

Peter Scheer, executive of the California First Amendment Coalition, asks, “What if online portals had nothing but ‘digital fish wrap’?” He writes: Newspapers and wire services need to figure out a way, without running afoul of antitrust laws, to agree to embargo their news content from the free Internet for a brief period — say, […]

David Carr, NY Times: Dubious Mix: Rich Suitors, Ailing Papers. Each potential buyer of the Tribune papers has said, mostly through surrogates, that profits are not the point, but men who spent their lives piling up money hate to watch it evaporate. And any experienced business reporter will tell you the average titan has little […]

Wired News: Gannett to Crowdsource News. Other large publishers are already experimenting with bringing readers into a more participatory role, and a host of citizen-journalism projects like NowPublic and NewAssignment.Net have sprung up in the last few years. But because of its reach, Gannett’s move could bring these issues into the mainstream. This is truly […]

With newspaper circulation continuing its near free-fall, Alan Mutter suggests that a significant portion of the decline results directly from the industry’s long-term, and arguably long-overdue, initiative to eliminate inefficient vanity and promotional circulation. Interesting take on the situation. We’ll see if the predicted flattening of the numbers does occur before too much longer.