The Morning Lowdown 04-08-11
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» Sony (NYSE: SNE) slashes PlayStation Portable prices by 24 percent in Europe to boost adoption. (Bloomberg)
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Gannett Names ShortTail’s Payne As Chief Digital Officer
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) has hired ShortTail Media co-cofounder and ex-CNN.com exec David Payne as its new chief digital officer, succeeding the… Read more »
Gannett Hopes To Give Its Brand ‘A Reset’
With Gannett (NYSE: GCI) looking to emphasize the connected nature of its digital reach, all its properties, including flagship paper USA To… Read more »
With Google’s One Pass, Two More Newspaper Chains Join The Paywall Brigade
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Included in the announcement of Google’s long-expected One Pass paid content system for publishers is news that two more U.S. newspaper cha… Read more »
Pointroll’s Tafler Steps Down As CEO; Sales Head Gatto Will Succeed Him
Jason Tafler is stepping down as CEO of Gannett’s rich media provider Pointroll. Tafler made the announcement this morning, telling staffers… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02.11.2011
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» As our Staci D. Kramer reported earlier this week, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is starting its multiple magazine-app subscription pla… Read more »
Gannett’s Dubow: Doubling Down On Local And Mobile
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) CEO Craig Dubow began the company’s largely positive Q4 earnings results by highlighting the local digital moves on the… Read more »
Gannett’s Digital Revs Continue Double-Digit Rise
The improving advertising outlook helped Gannett (NYSE: GCI) ease the declines in publishing, especially in the classified area in Q4, as di… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-31-11
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» eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is enlisting display specialist Triad Retail Media to help manage its online advertising. Tampa-based Triad w… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-26-11
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» “Rupert Murdoch has to succeed,” declared WPP CEO Martin Sorrell at the Natpe conference. He was was specifically referring the… Read more »
Social News Site Ongo Combines Aggregation And Paywalls
After months of operating in stealth, social news site Ongo, which received $12 million in funding from the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT), Gannett (NYSE… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-15-11
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» Here’s one reason digital storefront Next Issue Media appears more active lately: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has told publishers that t… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.12.11
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» Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Sports has an audience of roughly 50 million visitors — so what do you do with that? Naturally, it’s time t… Read more »
GSI Commerce Buys Ad Analytics Firm ClearSaleing
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GSI Commerce has purchased ClearSaleing, a six-year-old company that helps advertisers measure the performance of their online campaigns. Th… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.05.11
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» If Arianna Huffington’s success with The Huffington Post parallels Mark Zuckerberg’s experience with Facebook, it’s that she to… Read more »
USA Today Buys Tech Products Site Network Reviewed.com
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) USA Today has acquired Reviewed.com, a group of 12 product-review websites. The site provides in-depth, long takes on di… Read more »
Survey: iPad Newspaper Apps Could Slash Print Subscriptions
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Wasn’t the iPad supposed to save print journalism? A Reynolds Journalism Institute survey of 1,600 iPad users this fall says that more than… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.02.10
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» How relevant are portals these days? Well, comScore data AOL (NYSE: AOL) is still a top-five site, though vertical blog network… Read more »
Online Video Ad Manager Adap.tv Raises $4.5 Million
Video ad manager Adap.tv has raised $4.5 million in its latest funding round, according to an SEC filing. The startup initially was behind a… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.26.10
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» Allbritton’s Politico will unveil a new subscription news service focused on health care, energy and technology. The cost is $1… Read more »
Newspaper Fas-Fax: Newspaper Circ Decline Slows, E-Editions Up 47 Percent
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Increased interest in e-editions wasn’t enough to keep U.S. newspapers from another circ decline but it did help slow the bleeding. Circulat… Read more »
A.H. Belo’s Providence Journal Will Only Show Story Excerpts Online
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For nearly a year, A.H. Belo (NYSE: AHC) has said it would test some sort of pay wall plan at one of its papers. After repeated delays, it’s… Read more »
Gannett’s Digital Revs Continue To Surge, As Print Declines Recede
Digital revenues in Gannett’s U.S. Community Publishing unit, which houses the company’s 80 local papers, were up 10.2 percent in the quarte… Read more »
NY Post Launches Paid iPad App; Subscriptions Available Monthly, Annually
The New York Post is the latest newspaper to take a chance on selling subscriptions via an iPad app. The News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) paper launche… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.12.10
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» To promote the launch of its Windows 7 Phone, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is running an ad campaign intended to aim for “average fol… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.07.10
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» The NY Post’s Page Six columnist Richard Johnson is the latest prominent print journalist to make the leap to digital. But he’s… Read more »
Social News Startup Ongo Raises $12 Million From Gannett, NYTCo, WaPo
Ongo, a news sharing site currently in stealth mode, has raised $12 million from a trio of major newspaper publishers, USA Today reported. I… Read more »
Deseret News Tries A Controlled Burn To Save Itself
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Last week, one of the nation’s top dailies imploded its structure to go “digital first.” Today, the Deseret News, a much smaller paper in Sa… Read more »
USAT Starts ‘Radical’ Shakeup: 130 Layoffs; News Tailored To Mobile, Ads
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USA Today Publisher Dave Hunke is embarking on the biggest change in the Gannett (NYSE: GCI) flagship’s 28-year history as he shifts away fr… Read more »
Gannett Goes Hyperlocal With HighSchoolSports.net
Though still without a chief digital officer since May, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) is continuing to broaden its online strategy. The McLean, Va. co… Read more »
MSN Adds Localized Deals From Gannett’s ShopLocal
Microsoft’s MSN, which introduced new ‘Local Edition’ pages as part of its big homepage overhaul earlier this year, is now adding localized… Read more »
Gannett CEO Dubow: iPad App Will Remain Free, Ad Supported Through Q3
With advertiser interest in Gannett’s USA Today iPad app still running high, CEO Craig Dubow said that the app will remain free and ad suppo… Read more »
Gannett And Yahoo Strike Local Ad Partnership
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Gannett’s 81 community newspapers can hope to get a boost from a new local ad sales partnership with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). The deal also inclu… Read more »
Gannett Profits Rise As Revs Dip; Digital Revenues Rise
As it has for the last four quarters, Gannett’s profits rose thanks mostly to revenues from its local TV stations and continued cost cutting… Read more »
Gannett Closes In On New Chief Digital Officer; Resnik Set To Be Promoted
After a nearly four-month search to replace Chris Saridakis as chief digital officer, sources tell paidContent Gannett (NYSE: GCI) is close… Read more »
Gannett Tries Out Paywalls At Three Papers
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Gannett (NYSE: GCI) is joining some of the other big newspaper chains in testing paywalls at several of its papers, possibly in preparation… Read more »
Interview: Gannett Holds Off On Charging for USAT iPad App — For Now
During Gannett’s last earnings call, CEO Craig Dubow said the company would introduce a subscription model for its USA Today iPad app just… Read more »
Gannett Looks Outside To Create Community Sites Around Local TV Stations
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) is continuing to build local community sites, but now, it’s concentrating on its broadcast side in addition to its newsp… Read more »
Gannett Launches Digital Marketing Unit Aimed At Small Business
For the past two years, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) has focused its local digital efforts on content, but now, the publisher is ready to show more o… Read more »
Gannett Folds Ripple6 Into Pointroll
As it continues its search to replace ex-digital head Chris Saridakis, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) is trying to make the most of its two successful… Read more »
