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Who Owns Newspaper Companies?

Published 03/08/2011 Mergers & Acquisitions , Organizational Transformation , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

By Martin Langefeld for NeimanLab.org

Who owns America’s newspapers?

In January, I detailed how a hedge fund named Alden Global Capital, which played a role in the shakeup at MediaNews Group, also had significant holdings in newspaper groups Freedom Communications, Philadelphia Newspaper Holdings, Journal Register Company, Tribune, and the Canadian newspaper firm Postmedia Network — all firms with current or recent bankruptcy status.

After noticing that Alden also owned, as of December 31, 3.91 percent of Gannett’s common stock, I surveyed all of the U.S. public newspaper companies to see whether Alden pops up elsewhere as well. It turns out that, other than Alden’s stake in Read More:

J-Schools and Reality Media

Published 12/10/2010 Organizational Transformation , Talent Leave a Comment

By Geneva Overholser for PBS/MediaShift

In June 2006, I published “On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change.” It examined nine propositions likely to have an effect on the future of journalism, and culminated in a number of recommendations. They focused on the role of corporations, the rise of not-for-profit media, the responsibilities of journalists, the role of government and of the public, and what was called (rather lamely, it seems in retrospect) “new forms of media.”

Over the ensuing years, I have reexamined the Manifesto in light Read More

The Culture Gap Continues…

Published 10/27/2010 Organizational Transformation , Talent Leave a Comment

By Ryan Tate for Gawker.com

So much for the war on Googler entitlement. Amid heated competition for engineers, Google is trying a remarkable new perk: free use of “runners” to clean apartments, take out trash, cook dinner, run errands—whatever is needed.

Googlers are being provided with credits on TaskRabbit, an online service that brokers odd jobs in five major cities. Recent job listings on the site include “Fold Laundry and Put it Away,” “Cook dinner for 2,” “assemble four items from Ikea,” “standard wash and fold: 3 loads,” “dispose of Ikea bead,” “Pick up and deliver cake,” and “walk a dog.” The perk, presumably, only applies to Google workers who live in one of the five metropolitan regions TaskRabbit serves, including New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Read More

The Times Of London Website Loses 1.2 Million Readers Following Paywall

Published 08/17/2010 Organizational Transformation , Paid Content , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

From Huffington Post

The Times of London has been hemorrhaging online readers since erecting a paywall three months ago, according to data released today.

Internet marketing research firm ComScore reported that the websites for the News Corp-owned Times and its sister newspaper, The Sunday Times, have lost 1.2 million viewers in the three months since the formerly free site was reorganized and split into two separate sites — thetimes.co.uk and thesundaytimes.co.uk, each of which was placed behind a paywall.

That’s down from the 2.79 million that the free site attracted in May, the last month before Read More

Yahoo and Google in high-tech news war

Published 07/12/2010 Frenemies , Organizational Transformation , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

By James Temple  for SF Gate.com

Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are redefining the online news experience, but in diverging ways that underscore the evolving identities of the search giants.

Last week, Yahoo unveiled the Upshot, a blog created by the Sunnyvale portal’s growing staff of editors and reporters, who will use search and other user data to help determine what they’ll cover and how. Read More

The big leap: More publishers ramp up marketing services

Published 05/11/2010 CRM , Organizational Transformation , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

By Rob ORegan  for E-MediaVitals.com

The roles of publishers, advertisers and agencies are becoming less distinct as brands become content creators and publishers become marketing strategists. The Moira Group’s Mark Holdreith calls it “the big muddle.”

For many publishers, the muddle means money. Increasingly, publishers are finding new revenue opportunities in marketing services, offering a wide range of programs from custom publishing to website development to event production. Hanley Wood, a B2B publisher that serves the housing and commercial construction industry, increased its business with one client tenfold in just two years, primarily through marketing services. The Integrated Marketing unit of consumer magazine publisher Meredith has marketing services revenues of about $175 million, according to the Wall Street Journal, and grew by 13% last year, partially offsetting the company’s 15% drop in magazine ad revenue.

According to American Business Media, 20% of its members are engaged in or currently developing marketing

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Newspapers That Now Charge For Online Access

Published 04/10/2010 Content & Design , Organizational Transformation , Paid Content , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

By Joseph Tartikoff for PaidContent.Org

In the mid-90s, at least 45 U.S. newspapers charged for online access, though almost all of them later hopped over the fence to the free side. Now, the paywall brigade is rising again—albeit slowly. On the eve of this year’s American Society of News Editors conference, where the question of charging for digital content will be center stage, we’ve assembled a list of the local and metro papers in the U.S. that have paywalls. We found more than 20 that charge online readers up to $35 a month, in an attempt either to read more

Demand Media to provide travel articles and videos for USA Today website

Published 04/08/2010 Content & Design , Organizational Transformation , Strategic Partnerships , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

By Alex Pham for Los Angeles Times.com

If you can’t beat ‘em, you can always join ‘em.

Demand Media Inc., often pilloried by the media pundits as a factory for online content, has struck a deal to provide travel articles and videos for one of the nation’s biggest media brands, Gannett Inc.’s USA Today.

The arrangement calls for Demand Media to create and maintain a new travel section for USA Today’s website called Travel Tips. The section, which debuted Wednesday, is populated by thousands of how-to articles created by Demand’s editors and freelancers.

The deal is the first of many that the privately held Santa Monica start-up hopes to ink with traditional media publishers, some of which have been among read more

Media General to consolidate copy editing, page design at its three metro papers

Published 04/07/2010 Content & Design , Organizational Transformation Leave a Comment

Media General, Inc. said today it will consolidate copy editing and page design for its three metro newspapers, The Tampa Tribune, Richmond Times-Dispatch and Winston-Salem Journal. The consolidated metro editing and design operation will have two groups, one in Tampa, Fla. , and one in Richmond, Va. The operation will be led by a single managing editor located at the Richmond facility. Each of the two groups will have primary responsibility for particular sections and pages for all three metro read more

Print Still King for Newspapers?

Published 04/05/2010 Organizational Transformation , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

By Martin Langeveld for The Nieman Journalism Lab

A year ago, in a Nieman Journalism Lab post that garnered 88 comments and still has viral life out there, I maintained that just three percent of newspaper content consumption happens online; the rest of it happens the old fashioned way, by people reading ink on dead trees. Given the continuing attention read more

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