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The surprising boomlet in newspaper M&A 12 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Beyond the headline-grabbing purchases last week of the Washington Post and Boston Globe, there has been a surprising recovery in M&A activity in the last 1½ years involving newspapers in places like ...
Smartphones are so 2012. What’s next? 7 Aug 2013 | 09:35 pm
With more than 50% of the population packing smartphones and tablet penetration not far behind, it’s time to start thinking about the next-generation mobile devices that will further disrupt the media...
Digital doctor Bezos takes on the ailing Post 6 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
The purchase of the struggling Washington Post by Jeff Bezos may be the best news the news industry has had in a long time, because it finally puts a true digital native at the helm of a newspaper com...
Digital usage overtaking all legacy media 5 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Americans this year are likely to spend as many hours consuming content on digital devices as the combined amount of time that they devote to gazing at TV and paging through print, according to eMarke...
Study finds elders pick web over newspaper, too 15 Jul 2013 | 09:49 pm
In fresh evidence of the mounting demographic challenge facing publishers, a new study from Oxford University found that online sites beat newspapers as the preferred news source for every age group –...
The smartest guys in media give up on print 11 Jul 2013 | 06:06 pm
For all the corporate-speak accompanying the dramatic restructurings of Twenty-First Century Fox, Time Warner and Tribune Co., the simple reason these diversified media giants are jettisoning their pu...
Newspaper websites need a UX fix 10 Jul 2013 | 08:08 pm
As a young copy editor in the days when newspaper articles clattered off Linotypes, I sometimes went to the composing room to trim stories into the spaces allotted to them. This involved “editing” 14...
How TV could suffer the fate of newspapers 9 Jul 2013 | 07:24 pm
Second of two parts. The first part is here. In pivoting aggressively from print to local TV, Gannett Inc. and Tribune Co. are embracing a legacy media model that could be headed for the same audienc...
Gannett and Tribune pivot to TV: Is it wise? 8 Jul 2013 | 08:41 pm
First of two parts. The second part is tomorrow. Turning away from their roots in the newspaper business, Gannett Inc. and Tribune Co. are embarked on a pair of ambitious transactions that will trans...
Floundering news start-ups need help 10 Jun 2013 | 08:27 pm
Although nearly $26 million was donated to 50 non-profit journalism start-ups in recent years, most are flubbing the mission-critical task of finding ways to financially sustain their efforts for the ...
