8020 Media, the company behind the crowdsourced photography magazine JPG is closing its doors.
JPG Magazine, founded in 2005 was hailed as an innovative 2.0 entry into the magazine space, tapping into the wisdom of the crowd and ...
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Time Warner Cable has reached a last minute deal with Viacom Inc. on carriage fees, avoiding a blackout of 19 cable channels to around 15 million customers.
Channels that would have disappeared from the United State's second largest ...
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How bad was 2008 for the newspaper industry in the United States? E&P calculated the stock price movements, and massacre doesn't fully describe it:
GateHouse, down 99.55%
McClatchy, down 93.6%
Lee Enterprises, down 97.3%
Journal Register Co., down 99.58%
Media General, down ...
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A break down in negotiations between Viacom and Time Warner Cable will mean customers on Time Warner's cable network, the second largest in the United States, will no longer be able to view Viacom channels from January ...
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Washington lobbyist Vicki L. Iseman has sued The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) for $27 million over an article that gave the impression she had an affair with John McCain.
The Times reported in a story in February ...
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Gannett is one of the worst places you could be working right now, according to an end-of-year report compiled by employee survey site Glassdoor.
The job satisfaction site compiled its user-submitted rankings and reviews from the past year ...
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Having made a number of blogging related predictions, I move on to the tech scene. While there's probably a list to come (and its own post) there's one area I've been watching very closely this year, and ...
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It was bound to happen: The Internet is now officially tied for being the top news source of people ages 18 to 29. It's neck-in-neck with television within the 18 to 29 group -- and, for the ...
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GateHouse Media, owner of 125 small local newspapers in Massachusetts, has sued the New York Times Company for linking to articles on Gatehouse web properties.
GateHouse argues that The New York Times Co, through the Boston Globe (Boston.com) ...
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Okay anyone surprised by the news that Warner Music is pulling all it’s videos from YouTube put up your hand… It’s okay I’ll wait … Just as I figured – no-one. Of course this doesn’t ...
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Shares in media company McClatchy dropped 30% today after the release yesterday of more bad news on the advertising front.
Shares in McClatchy (NYSE:MNI) opened the day at $1.47 dropping to $1.05 at the close of trading after ...
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Newsweek has an interesting article up talking about the growing issue of companies using the Slingbox to resell television feeds to people outside of local markets.
One of the primary uses cited in the article is for sport: ...
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The McClatchy Company reported that consolidated revenues for November 2008 decreased 19.4% off a fall in print advertising of 22.4% compared to the same month last year.
The decline in print advertising was partially offset by a 7.5% ...
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Financial weekly The Deal has cut 10%, or 15 employees.
The cuts were across the board out of 150 employees of which 75 were full timers.
New York based the The Deal is a group of finance and ...
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More layoffs in media to start the week, with cuts coming at book publisher Macmillan and CBS.
The new CBS cuts of around "low two figures" are on top of cuts announced last week (which included Last.fm) and ...
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Reuters and upstart syndication service Politico have signed a distribution agreement that will see both share content across their networks.
Politico content, primarily US political stories will be available alongside Reuters content to Reuters clients.
The more interesting part ...
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It is one thing to hear about old media slashing budgets and tossing good people to the curb like yesterday’s garbage but it is another to watch as a major news organization seems to be dismantling itself ...
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National Public Radio (NPR) has announced that it will lay off 7% of its workforce and cut expenses due to broader economic climate.
A total of 64 filled positions have been eliminated and 21 open positions not filled ...
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The always lovely Gannett layoffs have now inspired a Web site of their own. The newly created GannettLayoffs.com is building a quiet buzz with employees at some Gannett-owned properties this week.
The site, operated by an Ohio law ...
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NBC is considering cutting back the number of hours it airs programming after a poor fall TV season.
Chief Executive Jeff Zucker told an investor conference Monday that while NBC will continue to fund the creation of pilots, ...
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With a balance sheet that says we're going to follow The Tribune Co into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, The New York Times is attempting to sell off its New York HQ to stay afloat.
According to the NY Times ...
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The following is the memo sent by CEO Sam Zell to Tribune Company employees announcing the company's decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. You can read more about the Tribune bankruptcy here.
Partners,
We just announced ...
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