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The changing tide of media consumption

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a report detailing how people are now getting their news. Still the top source: local and national television news. The internet is ahead of local print and radio. Other interesting shifts from the report:
The internet and mobile technologies are at the center of the story of [...]

Posted on: Mar 3, 2010,  Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 4 Comments

Washington Post, Dallas Morning News post profits

E&P has stories on fourth-quarter earnings reports of two newspaper companies. Regarding the Washington Post Co.
The Washington Post Co. Wednesday reported a fourth-quarter profit of $82.2 million, or $8.71 a share, a big jump from its year-ago net income of $18.8 million, or $2.01 a share. The Post Co.’s Kaplan education and cable television [...]

Posted on: Feb 24, 2010,  Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments

NYT conflicted over pricing for iPad; others hesitant to even get on board

Keeping an eye on the upcoming release of the iPad and its impact on newspapers, we get this rumored debate within the New York Times.
On one side, a Times source explains, you have print circulation, which thinks it should control the iPad since it’s just another way to distribute the paper. They’d like to charge [...]

Posted on: Feb 16, 2010,  Section: Newspaper industry, Technology, Comments: 0 Comments

Textbooks signed for iPad, Apple courts newspapers

CNET is reporting that Apple has signed textbook publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kaplan Publishing, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson to port their textbooks to upcoming iPad.
Announced on Wednesday, the agreements were made with ScrollMotion, a company that develops the iPhone e-reader app Iceberg Reader and works with publishers to digitize their books for the mobile [...]

Posted on: Feb 5, 2010,  Section: Newspaper industry, Technology, Comments: 0 Comments

News briefs for January 29, 2009

Comic Strips
» Ted Dawson posts some early Family Circus strip.
Editorial Cartooning
» Canadian editorial cartoonists are planning their annual convention in September.
Newspapers
» The Deseret News’ parent company is launching a Spanish-language paper in February. The paper will start out as a tri-weekly with a circulation goal of 25,000.
Television
» “A Charlie Brown Valentine Special” will air on [...]

Posted on: Jan 29, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Television, web comics, Comments: 0 Comments

Live Apple Tablet coverage here tomorrow morning (UPDATED)

Due to the potential impact on the print industry (at least the interest in it by those in print and web), I will enable a LIVE stream of the Apple “Jesus Tablet” announcements here on the site. Please come by and offer your impressions as it rolls out to the industry.
UPDATE: The McGraw Hill CEO [...]

Posted on: Jan 26, 2010,  Section: Newspaper industry, Technology, Comments: 34 Comments

More details regarding NYT paywall announcement

Bill Mitchell of the Poynter Institute and Bill Grueskin, academic affairs at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, appear on PBS’s NewsHour regarding what is known about the recent announcement by the New York Times regarding a new paywall plan starting in 2011.

You [...]

Posted on: Jan 21, 2010,  Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 3 Comments

WSJ: Apple Sees New Money in Old Media

There have been rumors ad nausea about the supposed tablet that Apple will unveil next week. While fun, I have not posted any here because I felt they were too unsubstantiated. I make an exception for the Wall Street Journal – which tends to be the mainstream media outlet of choice for Apple to intentionally [...]

Posted on: Jan 21, 2010,  Section: Newspaper industry, Technology, Comments: 10 Comments

New York Times to begin charging access

Bill Keller, the executive editor at the New York Times, has announced that starting next year they will begin charging for “frequent” access to their website.
Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers [...]

Posted on: Jan 20, 2010,  Section: Newspaper industry, Web Sites, Comments: 3 Comments

Not looking to start another war…

Having worked as a web designer and developer for about a dozen years, I see it as the future (and hence dominant future of comics). That said, I have a special place in my heart for the tactile feel of newspaper and the comics that it delivers.

So excuse me while I promote what I consider [...]

Posted on: Jan 19, 2010,  Section: Newspaper industry, web comics, Comments: 48 Comments

Mr. Fish laid off from Village Voice/LA Weekly

Mr. Fish (AKA Dwayne Booth), the alternative cartoonist for the Village Voice and LA Weekly has been let go from his position in a “cost-cutting” measure. He wrote Daryl Cagle a letter of explanation which has been posted on cagle.com. Here’s the salient part:
Haven’t we learned anything from the New Coke fiasco from the 1980s, [...]

Posted on: Jan 19, 2010,  Section: Alternative comics, Newspaper industry, Comments: 2 Comments

Comics Journal interviews Dave Astor about E&P

Eric Millikin caught up with former senior Editor and Publisher editor Dave Astor for his thoughts on the demise of the industry bible E&P.
EM: As you know, Editor & Publisher’s January issue is slated to be their last. What do you think this means for newspapers and comics? What will we be missing out on [...]

Posted on: Jan 11, 2010,  Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments