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InStyle Pairs With Groupon on Beauty Bargains

in News on October 15, 2010 at 12:13 pm PT

In its latest alliance with a major media property, deal-a-day service Groupon is partnering with Time Inc.’s InStyle fashion franchise on a three-day promotion offering half-price or better deals at editor-selected salons in six U.S. cities (brow tweezing in Boston, fake tans in L.A., etc.). Groupon has already run promotions with McClatchy in many of the newspaper chain’s local markets, and it announced a similar deal with Media General this week.

What’s the Good News at the New York Times?

in Media on March 1, 2010 at 11:19 am PT

Things have gotten less bad for the paper, but nothing dramatically good. So why are investors bidding up the publisher’s shares today? Shrug or make something up.

All The News We’ll Pay For: Why Newspapers’ Shrinking Circulation Isn’t All Bad

in Media on October 27, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

No surprise that Americans are dropping their newspaper subscriptions, as a new batch of numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed yesterday. But before you file this under “death of newspapers,” something to ponder for a second: This might not be the worst news in the world.
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Is the Newspaper Ad Slump Ending? No. But It’s Looking Less Lousy.

in Media on July 22, 2009 at 10:19 am PT

Be very careful about reading too much into this. But for what it’s worth, several newspaper publishers are now announcing that things are looking…“up” is the wrong word. Let’s try “less bad.” And let’s see what the New York Times has to say tomorrow.
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