http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/15/investing/berkshire-buffett-newspapers/ Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has sold off its $38 million stake in newspaper publisher Gannett Company and purchased $23 million worth of shares in the Dish Network, according to SEC filings. CNN Money notes that Berkshire Hathaway remains the largest outside shareholder in the Washington […] Read more at GigaOM »
USA Today is taking advantage of Gannett’s custom built CMS system that will let it select and curate content for the growing number of readers who are reading news on mobile devices. The move may help the company reboot a tired brand for the digital age. Read more »
Paywall solutions are having a bad month. Google shuttered One Pass at the end of April. Now paywall and news aggregation site Ongo, which launched in January 2011 with $12 million in funding from the New York Times, Washington Post and Gannett, is closing. Read more »
It’s been a big week in newspapers starting to charge for content. First it was Gannett; now the Los Angeles Times will launch a metered pay… Read more »
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) said it is “playing offense” again after years of cuts and contraction. Its touchdown strategy is a sophisticated paywal… Read more »
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. posted lower than expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 after incurring special charges related to workfo… Read more »
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. has bought The Big Lead and a family of other sports blogs. The company hopes the acquisition, when combined with it… Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Fire continues to draw interest from publishing companies, including ones who have already embraced Android tablets. This ti… Read more »
Back in August, we reported how HeraldScotland.com, run by Gannett’s Newsquest would introduce a metered charging system. Now it is about to… Read more »
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Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest, which owns titles including the Glasgow-based Herald and the Argus in Brighton, has reported a 7.9 p… Read more »
Gannett’s profits slipped a bit due to the economic weakness, a sign of tougher times for newspaper publishers in general as the Q3 earnings… Read more »
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Gannett’s MomsLikeMe hyperlocal parenting network will cease operating on Friday and its 100-plus town-specific sites will go dark and the c… Read more »
Less than a month after taking his second medical leave in two years, Craig Dubow has resigned as Gannett’s CEO and chairman, the company sa… Read more »
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Chairman and CEO Craig Dubow is once again taking medical leave, the company said in a short, late afternoon press relea… Read more »
For some time now, so-called patent trolls have aggressively targeted the biggest tech companies in the world. Now, they seem to be setting… Read more »
Barring some explosive revelation, Carol Bartz is out as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) because she couldn’t show any way up. During the Q2 earni… Read more »
A little over a year after Gannett (NYSE: GCI) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) teamed up on local ads sales primarily for the publisher’s 81 communit… Read more »
Herald & Times, run by Gannett’s Newsquest, will begin requiring metered payments for its HeraldScotland.com news site by year’s end. Read more »
By now, investors ought to be used to The McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s consistent drift of revenue and net income declines since it retur… Read more »
Even in the close-mouthed world of hedge fund investment, Randall Smith, the principal of Alden Global Capital, gives new meaning to the eup… Read more »
With Gannett’s digital revenues reliably growing by double digits for the past year, analysts on the company’s Q2 earnings call noted that t… Read more »
The growth rate for Gannett’s local newspaper websites’ ad revenues in Q2 have held steady with last year’s results, thanks in part to the s… Read more »
Today marks the official launch of USA Today’s new books site, books.usatoday.com. The most noticeable changes are to its bestseller list, w… Read more »
Public interest groups and at least one FCC commissioner cheered on Thursday after a federal appeals court threw out part of the agency’s me… Read more »
With the economy looking a bit weaker than it was at the start of the year, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) has returned to layoffs at its 80 U.S. commu… Read more »
It looks like the combination of the iPad, Kindle, iPhone and Android is quickly having a positive impact on newspaper e-editions, as the Au… Read more »
While the advertising recovery continues to hold on despite remaining economic weakness, the newspaper industry appears to be in danger of f… Read more »
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Gannett (NYSE: GCI) CEO Craig Dubow devoted much of the Q1 conference call with investors touting the company’s multi-pronged digital initia… Read more »
Gannett’s ability to reach and retain profitability over the past year rested on two main things: the growth of digital revenues and its ded… Read more »
