The Oracle of Omaha acquired his hometown newspaper in January and just snapped up dozens more in a $142 million deal. This is supposed to be the fastest declining industry in America. What is Warren Buffett up to? Read more »
As more newspapers roll out paywalls, they are looking for new types of content and services to entice readers, and are also turning to new… Read more »
While most of the pickup in online advertising spending this year has occurred on the national level, Media General’s Q3 earnings demonstrat… Read more »
Several months after McClatchy partnered with Groupon to promote the daily deal service in many of its local markets, Media General (NYSE: M… Read more »
After working together for years through a trade association, a dozen broadcasters are now forming a financially-backed joint venture to dev… Read more »
Media General followed the newspaper publisher trend of reaching profitability through cost cutting in Q4, as publishing revenues in general… Read more »
Media General (NYSE: MEG) posted a net loss for Q4 of $85.5 million ($3.86 per diluted share) on a pre-tax impairment charge of $130.4 mill… Read more »
Looks like Media General (NYSE: MEG) reaped the most benefits possible from the politics-Olympics combo in Q3 but it will be a tough perform… Read more »
For newspapers, any news that’s not terrible is considered a win… Take NYTCo (NYSE: NYT), which yesterday reported a 14 percent decline in… Read more »
– AP: As expected, some newspapers are pulling out following the much-discussed rate changes for the co-op. At the same time, even papers g… Read more »
Here’s the latest rough newspaper quarter: Media General (NYSE: MEG) announced Q2 revenue of $204.8 million, a decrease of 10 percent from $… Read more »
By the beginning of Q3, Media General (NYSE: MEG) says it will have dropped the equivalent of 750 full-time jobs from its payroll — saving… Read more »
Harbinger, the activist fund going after Media General (NYSE: MEG), has successfully installed three representatives to the company’s board.… Read more »
Media General (NYSE: MEG), locked in a bid to fend off an activist investor group, reported Q1 revenue of $194.4 million, 11 percent lower t… Read more »
It looks like everything is breaking in Harbinger’s direction, in its effort to get its slate on the Media General (NYSE: MEG) board. In a l… Read more »
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) has settled with Harbinger but the Media General (NYSE: MEG) beatdown goes on … MEG CEO Marshall Mo… Read more »
– Lee Enterprises: E&P takes a look at the goodwill writedowns across the newspaper industry, as acquisitions have consistently failed to l… Read more »
Just as the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) settled its differences with Harbinger, Media General is ratcheting up the war of words. In a letter sent to s… Read more »
Harbinger Capital has submitted its preliminary proxy statement in its attempt to get three nominees on the board of Media General (NYSE: ME… Read more »
The world’s going crazy with 10-K’s…and we’re making it easy for you. Our motto, just in case you didn’t know: We kill ourselves, so you d… Read more »
Some fresh data for the first month of the year from a handful of newspapers… Note that two of them, Media General (NYSE: MEG) and Gannett… Read more »
And while media companies are rethinking the big comparison shopping sites within their portfolio, some are going small in their hunt. Newsp… Read more »
Despite claims that it’s on a turnaround path, Media General’s (NYSE: MEG) latest quarterly report won’t do much to shake off the activist i… Read more »
Media General (NYSE: MEG) said online revenues grew 27.3 percent in October to $3.5 million from $2.8 million a year ago. Meanwhile, year-to… Read more »