As revenue heads south, smart newspapers are looking at different ways they can adapt to survive. At the extreme end, The Christian Science Monitor announced yesterday that it was moving to a primarily online model and abandoning ...
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More bad news for those in the media business, with new cuts and revenue issues.
Gannett's newspaper division has announced a new round of layoffs. The company will reduce staff numbers by 10% during the first week of ...
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And so it begins. The 100 year old newspaper The Christian Science Monitor has announced that it will cease publishing its daily print edition, switching primarily to an online only presence. The paper will publish a weekend ...
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Circulation figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) shows an increasing decline in newspaper circulation in the United States.
According to the figures for the 6 months to September, national daily circulation dropped 4.6% to 38,165,848 ...
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As the Election campaign draws to a close, most papers in the United States have made their Presidential endorsements for another cycle. The numbers look good for Obama, who was leading the count 160 to 59 (as ...
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Now it's official: the death spiral of newspapers is accelerating, with the largest newspaper publisher in the United States reporting an increased decline in advertising revenue.
Gannett, which publishes the USA Today and a range of titles domestically ...
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The Associated Press (AP) has backflipped on its decision to increase membership rates in 2009, a key factor in the growing list of papers seeking to terminate their AP content agreements.
AP said its board of directors had ...
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The New York Times released their 3rd quarter results today, adding to the doom and gloom in the newspaper market with declining advertising and debt issues.
The company reported 3rd quarter net income of $6.5 million, compared to ...
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Newspaper group The McClatchy Company has posted a third quarter profit despite a decline in ad revenues.
McClatchy posted a net income for the quarter ending September 28 of $4.2 million, or 5 cents a share, compared to ...
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The E. W. Scripps Company, the Ohio based owner of 17 US newspapers including the Rocky Mountain News may be about to drop their agreement with the Associated Press (AP) for syndicated content, according to a report ...
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PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Analyst Marcel Fenez has told the World Association of Newspapers readership conference that traditional media has 5 years left until the death clock kicks in.
Fenez argues that globally print media has growth opportunities, and expects ...
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The Tribune Company has given notice to the Associated Press (AP) that it no longer wishes to use its services.
The Tribune group includes the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale); The Orlando ...
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We know that newspapers are dying. It's popular in new media circles to talk about the extinction of newspapers altogether, but as I've argued here before, that presumption ignores the split between newspapers as a physical print ...
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The New York Sun is to close with the last edition to be published Tuesday.
The conservative leaning broadsheet launched with the backing on the now disgraced Conrad Black among others in 2002 and has struggled to find ...
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The Associated Press (AP) has announced AP Marketplace, a new platform that offers AP content and more to AP members.
Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb covers the content management aspects of the offering, describing it as an RSS ...
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We've known now for some years that newspapers are in decline. We reported September 4 that the decline in newspaper advertising is accelerating, and that the end of newsprint may be sooner than we think, but that ...
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New figures released show sales of Blu-ray movies are declining at a time where DVD sales figures are at best flat or worse in trouble after years of huge growth and massive profits. No one is calling ...
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As print revenues rapidly fall, cost cutting must follow as newspapers struggle to stay alive. We've already seen cuts to traditional services such as foreign bureaus, where as once newspapers had reporters in foreign cities, today only ...
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Google has announced a new effort to digitize old newspapers and make them readily available on the Internet.
The expanded Google News Archive will let you search for print publications from decades ago and see them in their ...
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The news just keeps getting worse for Heritage Media. First it was search advertising putting the pressure on display advertising online, and now we have a huge hit in newspaper revenues.
According to figures released by the Newspaper ...
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New figures released by eMarketer show online ad spending surged 20% in the second quarter of 2008, despite the downturn in the US economy.
The figures broken down however paint an interesting divide: in hard times, people are ...
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A survey from The Conference Board has found that one in five US households now watch television programs online, double the rate from 2006.
The notable part of the survey confirms what we already knew, that those who ...
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