Richard J. Tofel, General Manager, ProPublica in Voices on February 8 at 9:27 am PT
Maybe the extinction of newspapers was inevitable once digital publishing moved from proprietary services and the slow speeds of dial-up delivery to the open access of the worldwide Web.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in News on December 15, 2011 at 2:15 pm PT
New York Times CEO Janet Robinson is stepping down after a seven-year run. The company says it will conduct a job search for her replacement and that, in the interim, publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. will handle her duties as well as his own. The Times will pay Robinson $4.5 million over the next year for “consulting services,” the company disclosed in an
SEC filing.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Expensive content on the cheap: A start-up that licenses stuff from the likes of Reuters, Bloomberg and Forbes.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 9, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
WhaleShark Media has raised $150 million in venture capital to continue buying up coupon-oriented sites around the globe.
Martin Peers and Andrew Morse, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on October 21, 2011 at 12:23 pm PT
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corp., on Friday faced shareholders for the first time since a phone-hacking scandal at its UK newspaper unit embroiled the company and heightened criticism of what some see as a lack of independent oversight.
Joan E. Solsman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on October 13, 2011 at 11:51 am PT
New York Times Co. offered voluntary buyouts to “fewer than 20″ people in its flagship paper’s newsroom, according to an internal memo, while stressing that no layoffs were imminent.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 15, 2011 at 12:19 am PT
The story: “Man Says It’s Too Hot to Fish.” And it
is! Score one for mainstream media.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 7, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
Here’s some unpleasant deja vu: Summer’s over, the economy is wobbling, and analysts are starting to hack away at advertising forecasts.
Maybe, we’ll dodge a second recession in the short-term, but the game is the game, and publishers are simply running out of good choices. They’ve been dealt a deck of wild cards, misplayed a few hands and now have fewer chips left to play.
Analyst/author Ken Doctor with a grim prognosis for the newspaper business, which isn’t in any shape to weather a new macroeconomic collapse. Unpleasant factoid of the day: Industry ad revenue has been down for the past 22 quarters.
