Time: Polarized News? The Media’s Moderate Bias
Friday, 6 November 2009, 13:58
"[The] news audience, if not news itself, is getting more polarized. But categories like Pew's 'liberal,' 'conservative' and 'neither' … overlook the most significant bias out there: moderate bias." (HT: Jeff Sonderman)
Editor & Publisher: ‘Newsday’ Pay Wall Debuts Today — With Most Stories Behind It
Saturday, 31 October 2009, 09:01
"[All] stories, photos and video are accessible only to subscribers. Others get a headline and brief summary. But any further information requires a log-in and password. Non-subscribers to Optimum Online or the print edition can pay $5 per week."
McGuire on Media: Let’s not let Medill Innocence Project be another Hazelwood
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 18:38
"To attempt to redeem itself for its ignorance and sloth on [Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier], the mainstream press needs to rally to protect and defend the Medill Innocence Project."
New York Times: Paper Is Still the Medium, in Britain, for the Big Scoop
Monday, 27 July 2009, 13:05
"[In the United States], blogs like Politico, Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, TechCrunch and TMZ regularly break big stories. There are few equivalents in Britain. Conservative bloggers like Paul Staines and Iain Dale have sizable readerships, but scoops still mostly appear on paper. While Fleet Street is as hypercompetitive as ever, its relationship with blogs is more symbiotic than the parallel connection in the United States, where bloggers portray the 'mainstream media' as the enemy or, worse, an irrelevance."
The Atlantic: Shhhh. Newspaper Publishers Are Quietly Holding a Very, Very Important Conclave Today. Will You Soon Be Paying for Online Content?
Friday, 29 May 2009, 07:50
James Warren: "Here's a story the newspaper industry's upper echelon apparently kept from its anxious newsrooms: A discreet Thursday meeting in Chicago about their future. 'Models to Monetize Content' is the subject of a gathering at a hotel which is actually located in drab and sterile suburban Rosemont, Illinois
ReadWriteWeb: Data.gov Now Live; Looks Nice But Short on Data
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 23:25
"The long awaited catalog of public data from the US government launched this morning at Data.gov. Developers, watchdogs and data nerds around the world rejoiced – but the initial offering is a bit of a let down."
Editor & Publisher: Study: Newspapers Halt Local Online Advertising Share Decline
Saturday, 2 May 2009, 09:41
"A new report from [Borrell Associates] found that for the first time since the research firm started tracking local online ad revenue share in 2001, the big pure play companies lost ground. Furthermore, newspapers, which have been losing share since 2005, finally halted the decline in 2008."
Advertising Age: NNN’s Jason Klein: Newspapers Are Down but Not Out
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 06:58
"There are still too many newspapers in America. The newspaper industry will inevitably consolidate further. … The core reality is that economics heavily favor one large newspaper per city — one reporting staff, one advertising sales staff, one management and long, efficient printing runs. The surviving lead paper will pick up circulation and advertisers and get a boost in financial viability."
Wired.co.uk: Crunch time for British newspapers
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 05:50
Peter Kirwan: "[Many] of our wilder ideas about what’s happening to British journalism have emerged, by osmosis, from the US. … In some ways, however, the US newspaper market is different from ours. … In terms of sheer awfulness, the numbers reported by some of America’s metro newspapers outstrip anything we’re seeing in the UK. … In the US, debt has become a problem in ways that still seem exotic from a UK perspective. … Locked into a US-style patchwork of local monopolies, Britain’s regional chains have spent the last six months watching their print-based ad revenues melting into thin air. … The stakes are not quite so high – yet – for Britain’s national press."
FT.com: When newspapers fold
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 22:21
"… it is servicing debt that represents one of the largest costs for many publishers. A Moody’s analysis of six large operators in November found all but Gannett had debts above four times their earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation. In Tribune’s case, the multiple was 12.3."
comScore: Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many
Monday, 16 March 2009, 22:26
"[in the US] the number of people using their mobile device to access news and information on the Internet more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009. … "
Rocky Mountain News: Rocky Mountain News to close, publish final edition Friday
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 20:36
"Scripps said it will now offer for sale the masthead, archives and Web site of the Rocky, separate from its interest in the newspaper agency."
New York Times: Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 08:43
"As America’s newspapers shrink and shed staff, and broadcast news outlets sink in the ratings, a new kind of Web-based news operation has arisen in several cities, forcing the papers to follow the stories they uncover. … "
WSJ.com: Some Newspapers Shed Unprofitable Readers
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 12:20
"But the reality is in some ways less bleak than the latest [circulation] numbers indicate: Some newspapers have raised newsstand prices, curtailed discounted copies and halted delivery to the least profitable customers. Also, while print circulation has been declining for years as readers continue their mass migration to the Web, many publishers point out they are reaching more readers than before through print and online."
