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Newspaper advertising not rebounding
Alan Mutter writes on his blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur, that advertising revenue has not bounced back as other mediums have in this sluggish economy. Although television, online, radio and even magazine ad revenues all moved into positive territory by the end of 2010, newspaper sales dropped 6.3%. At the end of last year, annual [...]
Posted on: Apr 28, 2011, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 16 Comments
Huffington Post blogger files class action suit
Journalist Jonathan Tasini plans on filing a class action lawsuit against Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and AOL compensation for hundreds of unpaid contributors to the online publication. According to the Washington Post Tasini seeks $105 million. Tasini, in an interview, said HuffPost was engaging in breach of contract with its contributors because of an [...]
Posted on: Apr 12, 2011, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 16 Comments
Four Daily reporters leave publication
WWDMedia is reporting that a fourth reporter for the iPad only publication, The Daily, has left for other opportunities. Culture reporter Molly Young joins Lauren Bans, Heather Havrilesky and political reporter Jon Ward who have left the two month old publication. “It was incredibly fun to work in a newsroom: lots of reporting, lots of [...]
Posted on: Mar 25, 2011, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
New York Times unveils their online subscriptions
Later this month the New York Times will implement the long anticipated subscription pay-wall. In a column by Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. the six access scenarios were listed out. They are: On NYTimes.com, you can view 20 articles each month at no charge (including slide shows, videos and other features). After 20 articles, we [...]
Posted on: Mar 17, 2011, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
Review: A week of reading The Daily
I’ve been using The Daily every day since it launched last week. The new iPad only app is being touted as a futurist newspaper. News Corp chairman Rupert Murdock has reportedly spent $30 million building the app (and the newsroom) from the ground up. It’s a huge undertaking and there’s been a huge buzz about [...]
Posted on: Feb 8, 2011, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 8 Comments
Gannett Execs get millions; journalists shown the door
Rob Tornoe notes: In addition, Gannett continued their furlough strategy for the first quarter of this year, forcing all non-union employees to take a week off without pay. Meanwhile, Gannett’s board of directors will likely pay top executives millions of dollars in bonuses this year, in part for making employees take furloughs.
Posted on: Feb 3, 2011, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 3 Comments
Apple and News Corp to release The Daily on Feb 2
Loop Sight reports that invitations have been sent out to journalists to cover the announcement of the iPad only newspaper The Daily. The Daily is funded by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The event and announcement is scheduled for February 2. CEO Rupert Murdoch will join Apple VP Eddy Cue. Earlier reports had Steve Jobs attending [...]
Posted on: Jan 27, 2011, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
The Daily to launch on stage with Murdoch, Jobs
The ever changing date for the launch of Ruport Murdoch’s iPad only “The Daily” has changed once again, but The Cutline is reporting that its sources are saying it will launch on the 19th with both Murdoch and Apple CEO Steve Jobs together on stage at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. I’m [...]
Posted on: Jan 11, 2011, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
Google to enter into digital news subscriptions?
While we await for Ruport Murdoch’s The Daily to launch (rumored/reported for January 17), Google is making noise that it isn’t going to let Apple own the digital subscription plans for newspapers and magazines apps. News organizations such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal currently have free iPad apps but are free for [...]
Posted on: Jan 7, 2011, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 4 Comments
Romenesko: Washington Post posts profit in 2010
Jim Romenesko reports over on Poynter an email from Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth that they’ve returned to profitability in 2010. From that email: That said, we accomplished a tremendous amount last year and have strong results to show for it. I committed to Don and to the Board that we would return to profitability [...]
Posted on: Jan 7, 2011, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
The Daily set to launch January 17
All Things D is reporting that according to their sources, News Corp.’s iPad only news publication dubbed “The Daily” is set to launch January 17. Given that News Corp. has hired dozens of blabby journalists for the Daily, and interviewed many more, lots of other details about the app/service have leaked out already: It will [...]
Posted on: Jan 3, 2011, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 1 Comment
Rob Tornoe on the future of editorial cartooning
Nothing new is being said, but it’s good to see Editor & Publisher running an article by Rob Tornoe on the future of editorial cartooning. In terms of fodder for their cartoons, Cagle suggests cartoonists look to magazines at the supermarket checkout aisle and outlets like “The Today Show” in addition to hard news and [...]
Posted on: Dec 23, 2010, Section: Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: 3 Comments
E&P removes paywall for content
The venerable Editor & Publisher has decided to remove its paywall to its content. The magazine’s online presence has historically had articles available only to subscribers and even articles posted openly on their website would disappear into the paid archives after a couple of weeks. “We have not been big believers in paywalls,” said Duncan [...]
Posted on: Dec 13, 2010, Section: Magazines, Newspaper industry, Comments: 2 Comments
iPad news-reading eating away at print media
Interesting news from MacWorld regarding the iPad’s impact on journalism Many thought that the iPad would save journalism—but, as it turns out, you can’t save journalism without breaking a few eggs…wrapped in newspapers. A survey by the Donald W. Reylonds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the University of Missouri found that the iPad could have a [...]
Posted on: Dec 10, 2010, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 50 Comments
New information on Murdoch’s The Daily
Last week I reported that Rupert Murdoch was working with Apple to create a new iPad newspaper called The Daily. A few more details have been reported about the venture – less about the app itself – but more about who’s involved. The New Yorker is reporting that Murdoch’s News Corp is investing $30 million [...]
Posted on: Nov 29, 2010, Section: Newspaper industry, Technology, Comments: 1 Comment
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