Hearst-owned Seattlepi.com, the on-line successor to the print version of Seattle Post-Intelligencer, celebrates its one-year anniversary March 18, 2010. Â
The site is doing well with almost 4 million people visiting each month, which speaks loudly of their success as they are the first major metropolitan daily newspaper in the country to go Web-only.
The staff and public [...]
In an effort to get back revenue that his print outlets have been losing, Rupert Murdoch is planning to charge for subscriptions to all of NewsCorp’s online content. This would probably include news websites like Dow Jones, Marketwatch, Financial News, and The New York Post to name a few. NewsCorp-owned Wall Street Journal was one [...]
Consumer Reports took out an ad in USA Today for the fourth straight year warning consumers of retailers’ holiday shopping practices. The ad cites survey results showing most Americans are unhappy with their pushy methods, like being asked to sign up for store credit cards and extended warranties. Consumer Reports paid $143,000 for the ad and [...]
In an effort to avoid layoffs, newspaper giant Gannett is requiring one-week, unpaid leaves of absence for most of its employees. The New York Times Jan. 14, 2009
“Newspaper and newspaper groups are likely to default on their debt and go out of business next year — leaving ’several cities’ with no daily newspaper at all, Fitch Ratings says in a report on media released Wednesday.” Editor & Publisher (Dec. 4, 2008)
New York Times media columnist David Carr recounts some of the bad publishing headlines from recent days and laments the fact that more than 90% of newspapers’ revenues still come from their legacy printed products — despite their growing and vital websites. Readers still value the information publishers produce, but the industry still hasn’t devised [...]
Bloomberg News reported on Friday that The Washington Post Co. plans to buy Foreign Policy magazine. The company already publishes Newsweek magazine.  Bloomberg (Sept. 26, 2008)
One speaker at the fifth annual Advertising Week in New York, HDNet Chairman Mark Cuban, also predicts a shake-out among some hot online properties as their lack of money-making potential becomes apparent. While he may look at opportunities in mobile, he suggests this is a time to keep money on the sidelines. Colorful Vanity Fair [...]
Gannet Co., the nation’s largest newspaper publisher, is cutting 100 more jobs this week. The announcement comes after last month’s elimination of 1,000 positions. This time around, the cuts were all in management jobs in Gannet’s newspapers nation-wide. No cuts were made at the company’s flagship paper, USA Today. As with the rest of the [...]
The new luxury lifestyle magazine will be sent to a subgroup of The Wall Street Journal’s subscribers with an average household income of $265,000, beginning this Saturday. Total circ for the launch issue will be 960,000 copies: 800,000 sold by subscription and at newsstands in 17 large markets, plus 160,000 copies distributed on Fridays overseas. [...]