Posts under ‘News Business’

On the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, the publisher of the largest daily newspaper in Arkansas writes: One has to wonder how many of the newspaper industry’s current problems are self-inflicted. Take free news. News has become ubiquitous, free, and as a result, a commodity. Anytime you are trying to sell something that […]

UPDATED Clark Hoyt is the next Public Editor of the New York Times. He’s one of the great journalists of this generation, and I fully expect him to look deeply into the paper’s journalism — with fairness and toughness — in ways that illuminate the journalism of the world’s most important news organization. The Times […]

Reuters: News Corp. makes $5 billion bid for Dow Jones: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. offered to buy Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones & Co. Inc. for about $5 billion, but a representative of the publisher’s controlling shareholders said they would vote against the bid. Murdoch, whose $60-a-share bid represents a 65 percent premium to […]

If The SF Chronicle reports on a Santa Barbara News-Press story Sunday that reeks of journalistic malpractice. A data-recovery company found child-porn images on a computer once used by the former managing editor, Jerry Roberts — as well as all kinds of other people, including whoever previously owned the computer and sold it, used, to […]

A couple of days ago, a reporter for a major newspaper asked the following by email: My editor has asked me for a story, pegged to the Virginia shootings, that looks at the decline of the traditional journalistic “gatekeeper” role in an age when anyone with a cellphone camera can instantly be called a reporter. […]

NBC wasn’t wrong to put some of the grotesque Cho pictures and videos on the air and the Net. But it made a catastrophic marketing blunder in the process. The New York Times reports today, “One aspect that clearly irritated many of NBC’s competitors was the impression of the logo ‘NBC News,’ which the network […]

It’s called Triblocal, and it’s like several other project already under way or in planning stages at major American media companies. The more experiments in this arena, the better.

On another blog in early 2005 I posted an essay entitled, “Newspapers: Open Your Archives” — a plea to the newspaper industry to recognize the value it had hidden away behind pay-walls. I’m republishing it below, in part because I think the logic has held up even as newspapers have continued to hold back.

NY Times: For Tribune Buyer, a Storm to the West. The Los Angeles Times was nothing but trouble for the Tribune Company, and it may prove even more of a challenge for its new owner, Samuel Zell. Zell is a smart, smart businessman. He knows zip, he’s made clear, about newspapers and media. Why should […]

Howard Weaver, McClatchy’s VP for news, explains in “Foreign correspondence for Yahoo! News” why the deal the companies have made breaks new ground: McClatchy, the country’s third largest newspaper publisher with 31 daily and 50 weekly newspapers and a big Internet portfolio, is going to start providing next-generation international news for some of the Yahoo! […]