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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:

If Steve Jobs Ran Tribune

Published 11/11/2010 Content & Design , Strategy & Leadership , Talent , Technology Leave a Comment

By Jeff Fleming for Editor&Publisher

The Chicago Tribune is probably not on Jobs’ acquisition list, but the following blueprint is how he might strategize its metamorphosis — and since new thinking is what newspapers need, what better choice than to think outside the Apple.

I imagine his first thought is “tablet,” and the first Read More

Is The Internet Killing Print? No.

Published 10/18/2010 Brand Development , Growth , Strategy & Leadership , Technology Leave a Comment

By Peter Preston for The Observer

There is no clear correlation between a rise in internet traffic and a fall in newspaper circulation. Some papers are growing in both formats, others are succeeding in neither, according to new research Read More

The Facebook Money Machine

Published 10/18/2010 Advertising Management , Strategy & Leadership , Technology Leave a Comment

By Frederic Filloux  for MondayNote.com

This year, Facebook will make about $1.5bn in advertising revenue. On average, this is about three dollars per registered user, a figure that is significantly higher for the 50% of the social network’s population that logs in at least once a day. How does Facebook achieve such numbers? Last week, we looked at the architecture Facebook is building as a kind of internet overlay. Now, let’s take a closer look at the money side.

If Google is a one-cent-at-a-time advertising machine, Facebook is a one-user-at-a-time engine. The social network is putting the highest possible value on two things: a) user data, b) the social graph, e.g. the connections between users.
For a European or American media, one user in, say, Turkey Read More

 

Dead Web?

Published 08/29/2010 Mobile , Strategy & Leadership , Technology Leave a Comment

By Frederic Filloux for Monday Note

We now live in an apps world. “The web is dead” shouts Chris Anderson, Wired’s editor-in-chief. To make his point, he teamed up with Michael Wolff, a Vanity Fair writer. According his latest theory, the internet is taken over by mobile applications, and the web as we know it, will be soon dead. Wired produces a Cisco-originated graph (below) showing the decrease in “web” traffic, down to a quarter of the traffic of the internet. The other 75%, says Anderson, include video, peer-to-peer, gaming, voice-over-IP telephony, a large part of it encapsulated in apps, blah-bla-blah.

Well. Two things. To begin with, Chris Anderson isn’t the first to notice the rise in applications used to access the internet. Every news outlet’s digital division Read More

AOL’s Plan To Own Your Neighborhood

Published 08/17/2010 Competition , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

By Quentin Hardy for Forbes.com

SAN FRANCISCO — Patch, AOL’s effort to own America’s local news, said it has grown to 100 sites in 20 states, up from six sites since the company bought the fledgling news startup in June 2009. AOL also said it hopes to be in 500 communities by year’s end, and will hire 500 more journalists for Patch. That would likely make it the biggest hirer in the decimated industry in some years.

Patch offers local news and information in communities of 15,000 to 70,000 people, which AOL figures could have a local online advertising business worth a total of $20 billion. Each site 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

4 Questions for TBD

Published 08/07/2010 Strategic Partnerships , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

By Steve Meyers for Poynetr.org

TBD, the new local news site run by the company that brought you Politico, and led by ex-Washington Post online head Jim Brady, will launch next week. On Friday, Brady and other top staff outlined their editorial and business strategy and showed screen shots of the website.

If you’ve been following the buildup to the much-anticipated unveiling, you know that the site will rely heavily on aggregation, geolocation and community engagement, through social media and outreach to local bloggers. But Friday’s talk provided further insight into how this news operation will be different from others.

As journalists, news consumers, and industry observers eagerly await next week’s launch, here are my thoughts on some critical questions the site may answer: Read More

Understanding the Digital Natives

Published 07/25/2010 Content & Design , Research & Development , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

By Frederic Filloux for MondayNote.com

They see life as a game. They enjoy nothing more than outsmarting the system. They don’t trust politicians, medias, nor brands. They see corporations as inefficient and plagued by an outmoded hierarchy. Even if they harbor little hope of doing better than their parents, they don’t see themselves as unhappy. They belong to a group — several, actually — they trust and rely upon.

“They”, are the Digital Natives.

The French polling institute BVA published an enlightening survey of this generation: between 18-24 years of age, born with a mouse and a keyboard, and now permanently tied to their smartphone. All of it shaping their vision of an unstable world. The study is Read More

A Second Chance: How mobile devices can absolve journalism of its original sin: giving away online content

Published 07/13/2010 Mobile , Paid Content , Strategy & Leadership , Technology Leave a Comment

By Curtis Brainard for Columbia Journalism Review

Talk to people who are into mobile reading devices like the Kindle and the iPad, and a scene from the movie Minority Report tends to come up. Tom Cruise, who is on the run from the law, is on a train. Next to him, a man reads USA Today on what looks and acts like broadsheet paper but is clearly digital film of some sort, with animated graphics and flashing news updates. Suddenly, a photo of Cruise pops up on the man’s (and everyone else’s) gadget, along with an announcement that he is wanted for murder.

It’s a bummer for Cruise, but that screen makes techies swoon: paper-thin, it has the slight gloss of a laminate but otherwise looks like typical newsprint, though it is clearly connected to some ultrafast wireless network and can instantly access the limitless Read More

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