Archive for the 'Newspaper Publishing' Category
Newspaper middlemen, the first to go?
Published by Karen Webster on May 5th, 2008Last week, The Capital Times, Madison Wisconsin’s 90-year old daily newspaper, stopped publishing the print version of its newspaper and announced that it will instead publish all of its news to the web. This move was made after it watched its circulation dwindle by more than half over recent years and its advertising revenue shrink […]
The Gray Lady Staggers
Published by David Evans on April 18th, 2008The New York Times surprised analysts Thursday with a small loss instead of the anticipated roughly $24 million in quarterly profits. Today’s Wall St. Journal paints a miserable picture for the graying lady as well Media General and the Tribune on Page B1 (subscription only, see http://online.wsj.com for related news).
For anyone, including the billionaires […]
The Design of the Times
Published by David Evans on April 10th, 2008It used to be when you opened the New York Times to pages 2 and 3 there were a couple of things you could be certain of. There’d be the lead news articles on international events, and there’d be a Tiffany’s ad on the right hand side of page 3. This was a great […]
News Flash? People Don’t Read Newspapers Anymore
Published by Karen Webster on March 10th, 2008The latest WeMedia/Zogby poll citing that most people use the internet for their primary source of news and information is hardly a newsflash. We’ve been reading about the newspaper industry’s demise now for a couple of years as a result of fewer people reading the paper and therefore fewer advertisers using it to reach the […]
It’s Time For Amazon to Think Outside of the Unbox
Published by Karen Webster on March 10th, 2008A recent blog post ponders the future of Amazon’s Unbox video service given its reported inability to “make a dent in Amazon’s business.” This service, which was launched nearly 18 months ago, is a movie download service that allows movies to be downloaded right to set-top boxes (thanks to a partnership with Tivo). Recently, Amazon […]
Newspaper Next is Newspaper Not!
Published by Karen Webster on February 24th, 2008Industries like people sometimes do not live forever. The whaling industry was the major source of fuel for Americans in the 19th century. Great fortunes were made and Nantucket was once the whaling capital of the world. It died as people switched to gas and electricity. The typewriter industry had an almost century run […]
Media Talent Migrating to New Channels, Bypassing Content Middlemen
Published by Karen Webster on February 20th, 2008U.S. media employment in December fell to a 15-year low (886,900), slammed by the slumping newspaper industry. But employment in advertising/marketing-services — agencies and other firms that provide marketing and communications services to marketers — broke a record in November (769,000). Marketing consulting powered that growth. (Data from Advertising Age)
Now here’s an interesting trend. As […]
Sign of the Times: Newspaper Cutbacks the Beginning of the End?
Published by Karen Webster on February 19th, 2008I picked up the New York Times two days ago and I could have told you that there were major cutbacks in its news department before ever reading the story that confirmed my suspicions. The paper isn’t as thick, the stories aren’t as rich and frankly, even the Style section seems a bit anemic of […]
Gutenberg Still One-Up on Kindle
Published by David Evans on January 27th, 2008Randall Stross’s comments on the Kindle in today’s New York Times reminded me that I’ve been meaning to review the Kindle which I bought myself as a pre-Christmas present in early December. Unlike Randall, I kept my wife’s paws off of mine and I’ve been happily using it for about six weeks. It is a […]
Debunking 2008 Predictions
Published by Catalyst Code on January 11th, 2008Now that the barrage of 2008 predictions are behind us, we thought we’d take the next couple of weeks to focus on the “realities” behind what some pundits have predicted. This week, we’ll tackle mobile, advertising, and publishing.
Advertising
Predictions: Online advertising will be resilient in 2008, with growth in online video ads, social networks and […]






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