Industry Moves: Hearst Adds Four Execs To Large Board
Privately held Hearst Corp. has added four executives to its board of directors: George R. Hearst III, publisher of the Albany Times Union,… Read more »
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Hearst Preps New Beauty Site; Is There Room For Another Virtual-Makeover Tool?
By David Kaplan
Hearst is readying a site called Real Beauty for launch next month. The WSJ puts Hearst’s site launch at the center of a wave of new technol… Read more »
Lifetime Digital, King.com Tie Up For Games Deal
Women’s cable programmer Lifetime Networks knows its audience and that audience likes casual gaming, which explains the latest news from the… Read more »
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Hearst Pays $427 Million For 20 Percent More Stake in Fitch
By Rafat Ali
Hearst Corp, which is still hammered on the newspaper side, is continuing its diversification efforts. It has bought another 20 percent stak… Read more »
Investors Line Up Against Sale Of E Ink To Taiwanese Company, Citing ‘Low’ Price
By Joseph Tartakoff
Is E Ink, which makes display technology vital to the Kindle, selling out for too little? The company announced a deal earlier this month to… Read more »
More On AETN-Lifetime Combo: Sources Say NBCU’s Stay Could Be Short Term
If all goes as planned, Hearst and *Disney* could wind up as 50-50 partners in a joint venture combining A&E Television Networks with Lifeti… Read more »
Yahoo Newspaper Consortium Has Generated Estimated $50 Million In Revenues
By David Kaplan
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) execs have always been more than a little circumspect when it comes to discussing how well the 800-member Yahoo Newspaper… Read more »
Nielsen Numbers Disputed Again: This Time It’s The New York Times
Eight newspaper sites in the top 30 experienced drops in monthly unique visitors in April, according to Nielsen Online — and at least two a… Read more »
@ ASME Awards: Mag Editors Protest: ‘We’re Not Like The Newspaper Industry’
By David Kaplan
A defensive tone crept into many of the acceptance speeches at last night’s American Society of Magazine Editors magazine awards at the *Tim… Read more »
Hearst Corp. Increases Offer For Remaining Hearst-Argyle Stake
By Rory Maher
Looks like TV-station operator Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV) wants more money if it is going to sell its remaining public shares back to private… Read more »
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Hearst Enters The Modern Age, Orders Agencies To Submit All Ads Via Portal
By David Kaplan
Hearst Magazines has created an online portal — not for users, but for advertisers and agencies. AdAge notes the mag publishers is compelli… Read more »
Online-Only Seattle P-I No Longer On Top 30 Newspaper Sites; Hearst Disputes Nielsen Numbers
By Joseph Tartakoff
New Nielsen numbers for March show that traffic at the new online-only version of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer tumbled — but Seattlepi.co… Read more »
Former Seattle P-I Staffers Launch Non-Profit News Site
By Joseph Tartakoff
Seattle is fast becoming a testing ground for online news ventures. A group of ex-Seattle Post-Intelligencer staffers who lost their jobs wh… Read more »
Hearst Digital Teams With Coupons.com
By David Kaplan
With everyone looking for cost-savings these days, Hearst Digital hopes to capitalize on that desire by starting a partnership with Coupons.… Read more »
Hearst’s Bronstein Takes On Colbert: Internet Is Not Killing Newspapers — But Google Isn’t Helping
By David Kaplan
For some perverse reason, Phil Bronstein, editor-at-large of Hearst Newspapers and the SF Chronicle, decided to go on the Colbert Report and… Read more »
Some Suggestions For The AP, Care Of The Music Industry
By Rory Maher
Here we go again. Another major content creator is threatening to sue internet companies after years of having them nip at its heels by repu… Read more »
Tracking The Online-Only Seattle P-I: Traffic Down 20 Percent
By Joseph Tartakoff
It makes some sense: Cut your editorial staff by 80 percent, and there’s at least a decent chance that Web traffic will tumble. And that’s j… Read more »
An Insider’s View: The Strange Final Days Of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
By Joseph Tartakoff
On Jan. 9, Hearst Newspapers President Steve Swartz flew into Seattle and told the staff of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that if Hearst co… Read more »
Hearst Makes Bid To Buy Remaining Stake In Hearst-Argyle
By David Kaplan
Hearst Corp. wants to buy the remaining stake in local TV operator Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV). The company is offering $4 per share in cash,… Read more »
Former WSJ.com Editor: What Papers Can–And Can't–Charge For
By Rory Maher
First, free was all the rage among newspapers; now, the pendulum has swung back, and at least some newspaper companies are convinced that th… Read more »
Dues To Pay: A Look At Newspaper Chains' Exposure To Unions
By Rory Maher
Organized labor dominates the ranks of newspaper publishing like no other industry, except for perhaps Detroit’s automakers. And like the ca… Read more »
Hearst Closing Seattle P-I Print Edition, Going Online Only
Only Hearst executives will ever understand why they unnecessarily put the staff of the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer through an a… Read more »
Industry Moves: Former NBCU Digital Exec Kliavkoff To Handle Interactive For Hearst Entertainment
By David Kaplan
NBC Universal’s former chief digital officer George Kliavkoff, often billed as the main brain behind Hulu, has landed at Hearst, MediaMemo’s… Read more »
Nothing Yet On Seattle PI As Deadline Passes
By Rafat Ali
Monday was the end of the 60-day self-imposed deadline that Hearst gave on the fate of Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, and as of today… Read more »
Hearst Plans Online-Only Version Of Seattle P-I; Makes Offers To Staff On It
By Rafat Ali
The newspaper division of Hearst, one of the most troubled in the country, is in the middle of its Read more »
Hearst Newspapers Tries To Figure Out Where To Build The Pay Wall
By David Kaplan
As online advertising revenues are expected to slow to little more than a trickle this year, Hearst is the latest newspaper company trying t… Read more »
Hearst Offers A Bit More Detail On Its New E-Reader
By David Kaplan
Hearst filled in a few of the information gaps about its new e-reader, which we first reported on last April, but left other questions unans… Read more »
Hearst Threatens SF Chronicle's Sale Or Closure Unless Unions Approve 'Significant' Cuts
Yesterday, the big news out of Hearst Corporation was one hiring — that of Yahoo’s Neeraj Khemlani as digital advisor to CEO Frank Bennack,… Read more »
Interview: Yahoo's Khemlani Explains His Move To Hearst As CEO's Top Digital Advisor
Another major change at the Yahoo Media Group: Yahoo News head Neeraj Khemlani is leaving Santa Monica for New York and the Hearst Corporat… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: Seattle P-I; Wash. State Newspaper Stimulus; EW Scripps; Media General
By David Kaplan
– Seattle P-I union to the rescue?: As the clock ticks down on whether Hearst will sell, fold or turn its Seattle Post-Intelligencer into a… Read more »
Industry Moves: Paltalk President; UMG-Loeb & Loeb; Hearst; Pandora; TMZ
– 23/6/HuffPo: Sarah Bernard, the former GM of HuffingtonPost (before current CEO Betsy Morgan was appointed in fall 2007) has left the com… Read more »
Hearst Says Seattle P-I Will Either Be Sold, Close Or Go Web-Only
By David Kaplan
Following yesterday’s leak to a local TV station that Hearst Corp. was planning to sell or close the Seattle Post Intelligencer, the parent… Read more »
Ziff Davis Gets Out Of The Game: Sells 1UP To Hearst, Shutters EGM Mag To Focus On PCMag Network
By David Kaplan
Looking to conserve its resources for its PC Mag Digital business, Ziff Davis Media has sold off the 1UP Digital Network, its collection of… Read more »
NBC’s Silverman Getting Contract Extention; Hearst Still Looking For New CEO
By David Kaplan
With the near-daily flow of media industry layoffs, two big execs may get to keep their jobs, at least for a while longer. Although NBC’s br… Read more »
Industry Moves: Scott Sassa Joins As Head of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication
By Rafat Ali
Scott Sassa, the former CEO of Friendster, the founder and CEO of Uber.com, the social network which recently closed down, and the once pres… Read more »
Hearst Restructures Online Sales Team, Channel 4 Axes More Commercial Staff
By Patrick Smith
When there’s no one buying, you don’t need as many people to sell. Which may explain why NatMags’ online division Hearst Digital is restruct… Read more »
Lifetime Buys S. Korean Dress-Up Site Roiworld, Launches New Gaming Studio
Lifetime Networks is expanding its casual gaming with the acquisition of South Korean dress-up site Roiworld for an undisclosed amount and t… Read more »
Weekend Video: EconWomen: Tina Brown Interviews Cathie Black
One of the highlights from our EconWomen conference in NYC this week — Tina Brown, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, inter… Read more »
@ EconWomen: Tina Brown Tells Cathie Black She’d ‘Hate To Be In Magazine World’
By Patrick Smith
Cathie Black and Tina Brown famously clashed over the ill-fated Talk magazine, which Brown edited and Black was involved in killing earlie… Read more »
Eco-Friendly Sites On The Wane; ‘Thinking Green’ Means Something Different These Days
By David Kaplan
Just a year ago, when the economic outlook was a lot brighter, web publishers began jumping on the eco-friendly bandwagon. A Mediaweek piece… Read more »
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