Jan 30, 2012 9:50 AM
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. posted lower than expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 after incurring special charges related to workforce restructuring and asset write-downs. A report also showed that its newspaper empire continues to struggle but that its digital business is up 11 percent for the year.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Money, Earnings, Companies, Gannett, usa today
Jan 24, 2012 11:42 AM
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. has bought The Big Lead and a family of other sports blogs. The company hopes the acquisition, when combined with its existing USA Today properties, will vault it into the major leagues of the online sports scene.
Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Companies, Gannett, bleacher report, fantasy sports, fantasy sports ventures, sb nation, usa today
Jan 13, 2012 9:08 AM
USA Today is reporting a post-holiday e-book “surge,” with 32 of the top 50 titles on its most recent list selling more copies in digital format than in print, including all top ten titles. I broke down the lists to see which books sold more copies in each format.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-books, Kids & Teen Content, usa today
Jan 3, 2012 1:24 PM
Amazon’s Kindle Fire continues to draw interest from publishing companies, including ones who have already embraced Android tablets. This time, USA Today has decided to launch a specialized app for the Kindle Fire despite having already developed an Android tablet application.
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Mobile, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Gannett, kindle fire, usa today
Aug 31, 2011 12:40 PM
Mobile news reading app Pulse is reaching out to a more mainstream audience with its announcement of three new publishing partners: USA Today, Women’s Health and the New Yorker.
Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, Mobile, akshay kothari, new yorker, pulse, usa today, women's health
Jul 11, 2011 4:53 PM
Today marks the official launch of USA Today’s new books site, books.usatoday.com. The most noticeable changes are to its bestseller list, which now has a more colorful interface and for the first time, features buy links. It’s another way that USA Today’s bestseller list is trying to set itself apart…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, Newspapers, Companies, Gannett, usa today
Aug 27, 2010 2:00 AM
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 from print and towards mobile. The newsroom is being restructured around content rings instead of its four traditional departments of news, money, life and sports. On the…
Posted In: Advertising, Jobs & Layoffs, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Mobile, Companies, Gannett, chet czarniak, steve kurtz, susan weiss, usa today
Apr 16, 2010 10:12 AM
USA Today’s free, solely ad-supported iPad app will switch to subscription in July when the app’s exclusive sponsorship deal with Courtyard by Marriott concludes, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) CEO Craig Dubow said during the company’s Q1 earnings call. The app, which hit Apple’s iTunes App Store just before the iPad launched…
Posted In: Advertising, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Mobile, Money, Earnings, Companies, Apple, iPad, Gannett, usa today
Apr 8, 2010 1:59 PM
News organizations have always wrestled with the question of whether to give readers what they want or what they think readers should want. USA Today has apparently discovered a new solution to the challenge: Outsource the content that readers really want, and do the rest in house. Demand Media, which…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, Gannett, demand media, usa today
Apr 20, 2009 4:14 PM
Updated Some 300 business undergrads and MBA students at Washington University in St. Louis were treated to the Barry Diller show Monday afternoon, when the IAC (NSDQ: IACI) chairman and CEO was interviewed for the USA Today CEO Forum series by the paper’s senior media reporter David Lieberman. After the…
Posted In: Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, AOL, Facebook, IAC, Time Warner, Twitter, barry diller, usa today
Mar 18, 2009 2:04 PM
In a sign of the depth of the declines facing even the strongest newspaper brands, USA Today’s Q1 ad revenues could fall 30- to 35 percent year-over-year, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) executives told an analyst conference, Reuters reported. No word yet as to what was said about Gannett’s prospects for the…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Gannett, tucson citizen, usa today
Dec 25, 2008 9:25 AM
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) flagship USA Today is the latest paper to be sold through Amazon’s Kindle. The top-selling U.S. paper has yet to show up is now available at the Kindle Store but Amazon told Kindle subscribers on Christmas morning that they’ll be able to download the Dec. 26 edition…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Amazon, Gannett, kindle, usa today
Nov 24, 2008 10:47 AM
—USAT cuts 20 newsroom jobs: While Gannett’s flagship has been spared much of the company’s heavy job cuts of the past few months, USA Today will lay off 20 positions, or 5 percent of its 450-person newsroom. This is USAT’s first major round of job cuts since 45 employees were…
Posted In: Advertising, Jobs & Layoffs, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Gannett, McClatchy, journal communications, layoffs, usa today
Jun 20, 2008 10:25 AM
Former Money Magazine publisher Brett Wilson, has been hired by USA Today to run the Gannett (NYSE: GCI) unit’s ad sales. Wilson replaces Jeff Webber as SVP, ad sales. Webber will still hold on to his post as publisher of USAToday.com and will maintain responsibility for the website’s ad sales.…
Posted In: Advertising, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Gannett, brett wilson, jeff webber, usa today
Apr 21, 2008 5:25 PM
Fantasy Sports Ventures, which made news last month with the acquisition of HoopsHype.com, now has more money to spend. Gannett (NYSE: GCI) flagship USA Today took a minority stake in a first round for the company, built so far on angel funding in the seven-figure range from nearly three dozen…
Posted In: Advertising, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Gannett, fantasy sports ventures, usa today
Jan 24, 2008 11:46 AM
USA Today tells us it has bought action sports site operator Banquet. Among Banquet’s holdings are social net BNQT.com and the Cold War Collective, an ad network of more than 20 sites and blogs focusing on such action sports as skateboarding, BMX biking and surfing. Financial terms were not disclosed.…
Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Gannett, banquet, usa today
Jan 24, 2008 12:28 AM
College sports network CSTV.com is partnering with USA Today’s website on a marketing program that’s centered around online video. The arrangement calls for CSTV.com to provide video coverage from its CSTV XXL service, which features about 100 Internet TV channels dedicated to live college sports. Another of CSTV.com’s offerings, GameTracker,…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, TV, Cable & Telecom, Companies, CBS, Gannett, cstv, usa today
Nov 15, 2007 3:16 PM
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) flagship USA Today is the latest paper to slash staff, cutting 45 newsroom jobs despite seeing recent gains in newspaper circulation. The paper will start with buyouts and proceed to layoffs if needed; staffers with 15-plus years of Gannett experience and less than five years of online…
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