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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.
Though off-air online and experiential advertising grew modestly as a part of the overall radio revenue pie, and election-related political ads increased in Q3, total radio ad revenues were down 9% to $4.97 billion for Q3 and down 10% for…
Glamour magazine is running its photo of Britney Spears not only on the cover of the U.S. edition, but on the covers in seven other countries, as well.
Britney will grace Russia, Sweden and Greece’s editions of Glamour, among others.…
Titan Worldwide has signed a five-year deal with the Delaware River Port Authority to manage out-of-home advertising for the Port Authority Transit corp.
The contract covers advertising on PATCO’s rail service and stations between Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, writes Mediaweek.…
Publicis has acquired full-service agency W&K Communications, continuing its Asia expansion that began several years ago.
W&K will be pulled under the umbrella of Publicis’s Burnett agency network, and will be renamed Leo Burnett Beijing Advertising, writes Adweek.
Other recent Publicis…
With only four weeks separating Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, Cyber Monday One (December 1) and Cyber Monday Two (December 
may command a greater share of online sales than they have in years past - thus increasing the importance…
Top American non-luxury auto brands received higher ratings and less negative comments from online consumers than competing Japanese brands, according to an analysis of consumer opinions collected from automotive review websites by Biz360, MarketingCharts reports.
The research, which aggregated a year’s…
