newspapers

The Name Is Irrelevant

The problem is calling them newspapers …

– Barry Diller, in an interview with Katherine Weymouth, CEO of the Washington Post, at the Newspaper Association of America’s mediaXchange on Tuesday

The New York Times Posts a Help Wanted Ad for a Sales Boss

Peter Kafka in Media on April 2 at 1:39 pm PT

Tough gig.

The New York Times Tries Selling the Boston Globe Again

Peter Kafka in Media on February 20 at 1:10 pm PT

The Times bought the Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993. Today…

Tinypass, Andrew Sullivan’s Favorite Paywall Operator, Gets a CEO and Some Cash

Peter Kafka in Media on January 17 at 7:00 am PT

Fresh from ad giant WPP, Trevor Kaufman says he can help publishers free themselves of ads (if they want to).

Voices

Washington Post Plans a Paywall

Keach Hagey, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on December 6, 2012 at 3:35 pm PT

The Washington Post, one of the last holdouts against the trend of charging readers for online access to newspaper articles, is likely to reverse that decision in 2013, according to people familiar with the matter.

News Byte

News of the World, Australian Papers, IGN Weigh On News Corp. Earnings

Peter Kafka in Media on November 6, 2012 at 1:25 pm PT

News Corp., which owns this Web site, posted revenue of $8.14 billion and adjusted earnings of $0.43 per share; the Street was looking for $8.16 billion and $0.38 per share. The media conglomerate took a $67 million charge on costs associated with its News of the World scandal, and another $152 million charge for “restructuring and impairment charges” related to its Australian newspaper unit and the IGN games unit it is preparing to sell.

It’s a Protest … It’s a Cutback …

anxiously awaiting The Daily Planet’s move to three day per week publishing.

– From commenter Everett Will, on a post about DC Comics’ decision to have Clark Kent quit the Daily Planet in Superman #13

News Byte

Buy a Newspaper Stock? Yup, Says Barclays: The New York Times.

Peter Kafka in Media on October 11, 2012 at 8:49 am PT

A rare vote of confidence in newspapers: Barclays analyst Kannan Venkateshwar has issued the equivalent of a “buy” recommendation for the New York Times. Venkateshwar, who has already put out a couple of positive notes on the Times this year, says he’s giving the publisher an “overweight” rating because its circulation numbers continue to improve, and because he thinks it is set to distribute some of its growing cash pile to shareholders.