According to this business columnist, the newspaper industry is in a great position to make the leap into the internet world. Publishers are struggling to develop a new business model to reap revenue from users of a medium who from the Internet’s earliest days have usually balked at paying for content. Yet for all that, […]
At the end of Black Ink Monday – “a non-violent protest by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists,” one must ask how successful was the organization’s stand? My guess? It wasn’t. Yes, scores of cartoonists “participated,” but a quick look at cagle.com or comics.com and I didn’t see that any of the protest ‘toons were […]
E&P is reporting that the Herb Block Foundation is waiving the $50 entry fee for the $10k Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. The waiver is a token of support to the editorial cartooning community. “It’s a small gesture, but it’s something we thought we ought to do,” HBF President Frank Swoboda told E&P Monday. “It’s […]
Perhaps ol’ Knight Ridder is an attractive buy after all. Two major newspaper companies — Gannett and McClatchy — and a handful of private equity firms have expressed interest in buying San Jose-based Knight Ridder, raising the chances that the nation’s second-largest newspaper group could be sold sometime next year.