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The Chicago Tribune has shut down New City News Service - a service founded by Chicago’s five major newspapers in 1890 with the purpose of gathering local news and selling it to radio and TV outlets - because it had become a competitive disadvantage, the Tribune writes. The Chicago Tribune had taken over City News six years ago, when the last of the original five papers pulled funding. But now, explained James E. O’Shea, the Tribune’s managing editor, “Our competitors were taking stuff off the City News wire and putting it on the websites.”
To be more competitive, the Tribune is adding resources to its 24-hour internet-based news operation. Thirteen new positions are being opened, and the 19 former City News employees are invited to apply.
Comcast is hoping to enlighten media buyers on the ways of young men ages 18-34 with its new “field guide,” titled Hunting with Lightsabers, that has been in the works for a year and is now available.
The guide provides…
One of the few remaining tabloid book review sections in the country’s newspapers bought the farm this weekend.
The Chicago Tribune, which last year moved its stand-alone book review tabloid from Sunday to Saturday, has killed the section altogether, replacing…
A “Money Bus” took off to begin its tour of the country this week. The bus - part of a campaign by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) Consumer Education Foundation, and TD Ameritrade Institutional…
Though prime time viewing on broadcast is down, all four networks are up in viewers for NFL games through the first four weeks of the season, compared to last year.
NFL games are scoring high ratings in part because the…
Most Americans are very concerned about their internet privacy and many are taking steps to limit the information that is being collected and shared about them online, according to a poll from Consumer Reports, MarketingCharts reports.
To combat what they view…
Companies are struggling with how to adapt to serve a new wave of consumers from the Millennial Generation (or Gen Y) - born between 1982 and 2001 - according to a global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Alcatel-Lucent company Genesys, reports Retailer…
