Advertising Age: Newspapers Follow Groupon’s Suit; Enjoy Slice of Group-Buying Pie
Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 18:16
"Even newspapers are following Groupon's lead. It's no surprise, considering the 3-year-old startup made a reported $760 million in revenue from local merchants last year — that's one-quarter of the entire newspaper industry's…
FolioMag.com: Hearst Carpet-Bombs the App Store
Friday, 19 March 2010, 14:45
"The apps are essentially mini content aggregators by themselves. Each is built within a similar template and collects links from a variety of sources on a particular niche topic—specific celebrities, sports teams, etc."
paidContent: Magazine Consortium Will Launch With Five Partners: News Corp, Hearst, Time, Conde, Meredith
Sunday, 6 December 2009, 11:58
"News Corp joining Conde Nast, Meredith, Hearst and Time Inc. … Each is investing in the new company, which plans to create a new digital newsstand, and each will have two members on the board."
New York Times: Group of Publishers Is Said to Be Building a Newsstand Online
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 07:44
"The formation of a new company to run the online newsstand — sometimes characterized as an 'iTunes for magazines' — may be announced in early December. Time, Condé Nast, Hearst and Meredith all intend to be equity partners in the new company, although the deals have not yet been signed."
New York Times: Seattle Paper Stops Printing and Shifts to Web
Monday, 16 March 2009, 22:41
"The P-I lost $14 million last year, according to Hearst, and its transition to an all-digital product will be closely watched in an industry that is fast losing revenue, is casting around for a new economic model and still relies on print for about 90 percent of its revenue. The company recently instructed all of its newspapers to look for ways to charge for digital content — on mobile devices, if not online."
SeattlePI.com: Executive Producer Michelle Nicolosi talks about the new SeattlePI.com
Monday, 16 March 2009, 22:34
"We're going to break a lot of rules that newspaper Web sites stick to, and we are looking everywhere for efficiencies. We don't feel like we have to cover everything ourselves. We'll partner for some content; we won't duplicate what the wire is reporting unless we have something unique to offer; we'll continue to showcase the great content from our 150 or so reader bloggers and we'll link offsite to content partners and competitors to create the best mix of news on our front page. … We don't have reporters, editors or producers—everyone will do and be everything. Everyone will write, edit, take photos and shoot video, produce multimedia and curate the home page."
BuzzMachine: Too little…
Saturday, 28 February 2009, 23:30
"it’s with profound sadness, exhaustion, exasperation, and deja vu that I read Hearst’s memo about its attempts to update – a memo that could and should have been written and tried out 12 years ago (I’m sure people in this company and others did write versions of it; I know I did). If these actions had been taken back then, there still would have been time to make change and survive. But that time is over. Now the memo comes off only as desperation"
WSJ.com: Hearst to Begin Charging for Digital News
Saturday, 28 February 2009, 23:15
"Hearst Corp. said its newspapers plan to hold back at least some content from their free Web sites, launching the publisher onto the vanguard of print media companies to begin charging for their digital news and information."
Fortune: Hearst to launch a wireless e-reader
Saturday, 28 February 2009, 10:38
"Hearst Corp., is getting set to launch an electronic reader that it hopes can do for periodicals what Amazon's Kindle is doing for books. According to industry insiders, Hearst … has developed a wireless e-reader with a large-format screen suited to the reading and advertising requirements of newspapers and magazines. The device and underlying technology, which other publishers will be allowed to adapt, is likely to debut this year."
CyberJournalist.net: Hearst Magazine Increased Web Traffic By 150% with SEO and Wordtracker
Sunday, 22 February 2009, 10:18
"Since using the Wordtracker keyword research tool Dan Roberts [Senior SEO Analyst for Hearst Publications’ Digital Media] says Hearst Publication’s online traffic has grown 150%."
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 16:57
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US Esquire is going to have a battery-powered cover made by E-Ink, tghe company behind Kindle. “This is really the 1.0 version,” Kevin O’Malley, Esquire’s publisher tells the NYT. “Imagine when the consumer walks by a newsstand and sees that it
Friday, 11 April 2008, 11:23
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"Which do you think will have more active users in three years time: e-readers or whatever twitter turns into?"
Sunday, 9 March 2008, 16:20
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"NMA suggested very explicitly (but inaccurately) that Hearst is retreating from its web strategy. We’ve been working with Hearst on strategy and design for over a year now and we knew this wasn’t the case."
Sunday, 14 October 2007, 09:33
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"Apax, the private equity firm, has teamed up with the publisher of The Guardian newspaper to mount a joint £1.2bn bid for Emap’s business publishing division … as it would fit neatly with Incisive Media , in which [Apax] has a shareholding"
