Press+ Opens Pay Model Data Vault
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Earlier this week, the Project on Excellence in Journalism issued a detailed digital revenue study that left out even the most basic details… Read more »
Are Newspapers Finally Figuring Out How To Reward Their Best Customers?
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This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers.
One early sig… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-23-11
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» Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens to Cut 17,000 Jobs (WSJ; Press release)
» James Murdoch quits the boards of Sun and Times… Read more »
Hartford Courant Settles Copyright And Hot News Claims
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The Hartford Courant, which provoked a lawsuit over an ill-fated aggregation experiment, quietly settled the case last week. The settlement… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-01-11
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» With Launch Of The Verge, SB Nation Parent Rebrands As Vox Media (paidContent)
» Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), Looking To Gra… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-24-11
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» Does Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook Also Want To Destroy Android? (paidContent)
» Steve Jobs To Biographer: ‘I’m G… Read more »
Associated Press Teams With 40 Newspapers On Mobile Coupons
With newspapers having suffered through 20 straight quarters of decline — and no end in sight — a collaborative effort on the part of the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-01-11
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» Hulu Japan Launches WIth Movies, TV From CBS (NYSE: CBS), Sony (NYSE: SNE), Fox (NSDQ: NWS) & More But No Ads (paidContent)
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The Disintegrating Economics Of Newspaper Circulation
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Anna Tarkov calculates that the Chicago Tribune’s Groupon deal – two years of the Sunday ‘bune for $20 – works out to 19 cents an issue. Wha… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-22-11
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» Newspapers Edit Down Outlooks (WSJ)
» Murdoch told me to have someone followed: Buttrose (ABC News)
» T… Read more »
Tribune’s Reported Android Tablet Plan A Head-Scratcher
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It’s not clear why a publishing company like Tribune would think it has a chance to build an iPad competitor when companies that live and br… Read more »
Who Is Randall Smith And Why Is He Buying Up Newspaper Companies?
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 »
Blow for Big Media as Court Rejects FCC Bid to Relax Cross-Ownership Rules
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 »
The Morning Lowdown 06-22-11
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» Is Hulu In Play Or Just Jumping Through Hoops? (paidContent)
» Barnes & Noble: E-books Now Outsell Print Books 3 To… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-03-11
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» Now that Groupon has filed for a $750 million IPO, it’s time to guess the next daily deal site to go public. (paidContent)
Tribune Co. Promotes LA Times’ Hartenstein to President, CEO In Dual Role
Eddy Hartenstein, the publisher and CEO of Los Angeles Times Communications and a member of parent Tribune Company’s Executive Council, has… Read more »
Reuters Aims ‘Live Stream’ Video Service At News Site Partners
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Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is officially launching an online service offering live video access to breaking and scheduled news events to outside pu… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-05-11
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» Tribune Co. bondholders were cleared to sue former shareholders in state courts in an attempt to claw back more than $8 billion… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-19-11
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» The DVD and online video rental company LoveFilm has joined forces with Disney (NYSE: DIS) to stream films including Toy Story 3… Read more »
IAC Adds Eisner To Its Board
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A high profile addition to IAC’s board: Michael Eisner. The former Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO will become the thirteenth member of the company’s… Read more »
comScore: January Browsing Was All About Jobs, Taxes And Travel
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The latest comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Media Metrix rankings are out and January showed web users thinking about three things in particular: jobs,… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-28-11
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» The Newspaper Guild of New York, which represents Newsweek edit staffers, has given its assent to merger between the magazine I… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-27-11
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» What could have been… Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) priced its IPO on Wednesday and saw its stock rise 33 percent its first day. B… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-24-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had an interesting weekend, which served to distract from last week’s news about CEO Steve Jobs taking an in… Read more »
Perfect Market Raises $9 Million In A Round Led By Comcast
For the second time in less than a year, a major media company is investing in Perfect Market, a startup that helps publishers better moneti… Read more »
Tribune Media Services Buys Video Search Engine CastTV
Tribune-subsidiary Tribune Media Services has purchased video search engine CastTV. CastTV indexes videos from thousands of sources on the w… Read more »
Reuters America Gets News Service Deep Into Aggregating
As part of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) expansion into more general news service in addition to its financial reports, the company has launch… Read more »
Tribune Creditors Take Aim At Employees’ Stock Compensation
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The battle between the Tribune Company and its creditors has taken another strange turn: lenders have filed suit targeting employees who had… Read more »
Chicago Tribune Goes Shopping With Groupon
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Daily local deals aggregator Groupon may have rebuffed Google’s offers to acquire it, but the company is still open to shopping companions f… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.08.10
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» Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) still has the most popular browser, though it hasn’t gotten that much attention these days what with the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.01.10
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» Online media buying service AppNexus has been cut off from Google’s ad exchange after placing an ad that violated the company’s… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.16.10
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» Tribune Company chairman Sam Zell doesn’t see an operating role for himself after the company emerges from bankruptcy. In recen… Read more »
More Tumult At Tribune, As It Restructures Digital
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The Tribune Company is moving fast to reorganize is digital and other divisions in the wake of CEO Randy Michaels resignation nearly two wee… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.01.10
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» The Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s Rally To Restore Sanity in Washington, D.C., on Saturday was “history’s largest act of press… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.25.10
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» There was a lot of drama between Newsweek owner Sidney Harman, IAC (NSDQ: IACI) chief Barry Diller and The Daily Beast’s Tina B… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.22.10
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» Tribune creditors are asking the company’s bankruptcy court judge for the right to sue Chairman Sam Zell and others who had a r… Read more »
Tribune CEO Michaels Plans To Step Down; Replaced By Four-Member Council
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Following two weeks of chaos at The Tribune Company, Randy Michaels will step down as CEO by the end of this week, the Chicago Tribune repor… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.20.10
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» Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels says he’s not stepping down, contrary to previous reports this week. [Chicago Tribune]
The Morning Lowdown 10.19.10
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» Tribune Company’s board appears to have had enough and is preparing to ask CEO Randy Michaels to step down. The move follows la… Read more »
Chart: The Era Of Newspaper Bankruptcies
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The Tribune Co. is expected to notify a bankruptcy court judge today that it has reached a settlement with its major creditors. That should… Read more »
