There is something a little sad and dispiriting about this. It is being reported that whoever buys the Boston Globe will get another New England newspaper thrown in for free. In this case the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. It is almost like some newspapers are doing so badly that media owners are...
Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, was sounding pessimistic in Cannes yesterday and warned publishers that there was going to be no bounce back and that the global advertising economy had reset for good. Ballmer argued that traditional print media will have to plan business models around a...
Did Google ever really want a newspaper? Did it want the New York Times? Well it doesn't now and has told the FT that it is really not interested. Maybe it has worked out that, well, while it can make money out of newspapers they in themselves are worthless black holes. There had been speculation...
John Gapper in the FT today has a good piece on the woes of the New York Times, but he says the Gray Lady is one of the "few print publications with a good chance of thriving in the digital age". It has been a helluva week for the New York Times as mogul David Geffen emerged as someone being...
So the Wall Street Journal got it moving as it launches first with micro payments after Rupert Murdoch hinted heavily last week. It was the most obvious to go first, but what the industry really wants is for someone else to leap. People will shortly be able to buy individual articles according to WSJ...
A Democratic senator has launched a bill to help ailing US newspaper companies stay afloat as the crises in US newspapers gathers pace with hundreds more jobs lost and daily papers in more and more US towns become a thing of the past. Senator Benjamin Cardin wants to allow US newspapers to restructure...
A sad day for newspapers as Hearst closes the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and takes it online, but what it plans online, with efforts to create a community title, could be the model for the future. I blogged last week about the woes of the top 25 US newspapers and how the future is shaping up to become...
How much more would you pay for your newspaper? Would you pay £1.50? What if that were linked to online content as well? Maybe, after all, you get a lot of content for very little money. I was thinking this as I started writing a blog post this morning (Would you buy a failing newspaper?) about efforts...
The debate over paid content is steadily growing. Today Ann S Moore, the chief executive of Time Inc, says that the US magazine giant is considering making its most successful titles Time.com and People.com subscription based. In an interview in the Daily Telegraph today Moore told the paper that current...
It is is probably on everyone else's in the newspaper industry as well, but Tim Brooks has raised the flag today at the FT's Digital Media Conference in London. It looks like the place to be today and Tim Bradshaw (who is doing some good Twittering from the conference - @tim) is reporting Brooks...
