strategy
The Challenges of Online News Micropayments and Subscriptions
The impetus toward subscriptions for access and micropayments for single use of online…
Twitter
Seeing through the Haze Surrounding Websites, Blogs and Social Media
Communicating regularly is hard work. It takes skill; it takes a voice; it takes havin…
Tribune Co.
BANKRUPT NEWSPAPERS GIVE EXECUTIVE BONUSES
Failure isn’t what it used to be. Bankrupt newspaper companies are following the lead …
value
PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS SHAKE MYSPACE
The high hopes that News Corp. had for MySpace when it paid $580 million in for the so…
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
DOES ONLINE NEWS STILL NEED OFFLINE TIES?
When the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased publication in mid-March it continued www.s…
Verizon
THE WILD AND WOOLLY WORLD OF CABLE, SATELLITE AND BROADBAND MARKETING
Increasing competition among cable, satellite, and broadband suppliers, combined with …
technology
TECHNOLOGY RESTORES COLLECTIVE CONTEMPLATION
Humans are social and tribal animals and we have always collectively contemplated the …
Twitter
EVERYONE'S NOT ATWITTER
Journalists and technology writers are enamored with communications technology and ten…
public policy
ANALYSIS OF THE NEWSPAPER REVITALIZATION ACT
The Newspaper Revitalization Act introduced by Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., would perm…
print media
THE OVERBLOWN JOURNALIST EMPLOYMENT CRISIS
Journalists keep raising the crescendo of the chorus that journalists are losing their…
Tribune Co.
THE DEAD AND THE DYING
Judging from the continuing panicked commentary by big media journalists and commentat…
Viacom
3 BIG FAMILY OWNED MEDIA FIRMS FACE SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES
Family owned and controlled businesses face challenges because of difficulties in pass…
value
Why We Won't Pay for News
I recently forged my way the myriad of news reports on networks, papers, and web sites…
print media
NEWSPAPER RESTRUCTURING IS PAINFUL, BUT NECESSARY
Financial pages are full of developments and changes at newspaper companies and these …
Tribune Co.
BANKRUPTCY AND NEWSPAPER FIRMS
The bankruptcy filings of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and Tribune Co. are cast by man…
Seattle Times
POST-INTELLIGENCER SALE SHOWS JOINT OPERATING AGREEMENTS AREN'T EFFECTIVE
The announcement that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is being put up for sale—a legall…
Washington Post
THE UPSIDE OF DISAPPEARING NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
There is one upside to all the advertising disappearing from newspapers……Consumers can…
You Tube
MEDIA FIRMS INCREASINGLY CHARGED WITH COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS
First it was record companies suing Napster and peer-to-peer file sharers, and then it…
print media
THE CREDIT CRISIS, VOLATILE MARKETS, RECESSION AND MEDIA
The churning flood of economic developments and the desperate measures of governments …
strategy
ASK DEEPER QUESTIONS ABOUT FINANCIAL CONDITIONS
Many observers tend to conceive any changes in media businesses as trends that are irr…
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