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On March 30, Ben Bradlee - who ran The Washington Post newsroom from 1965 to 1991 and still has an office - and his son Quinn will leave for the South Pacific on a voyage about which he will write a first-person piece for The New Yorker, reports Editor & Publisher.
In an interview with E&P, Bradlee claimed that newspapers are not dying. “I think it is an over-simplification to say the web is the answer. It is more complicated than that. They’ve got to find a way to attract readers to the newspaper. The design and the subjects covered.”
Gary Pruitt, CEO of McClatchy, recently spoke out about the supposed demise of newspapers, as well, saying, “Speaking as someone whose company is writing a $6.5 billion check to triple its newspaper holdings, I beg to differ.”
Katz Media Group has added another new client, Lincoln Financial Media, and will sell ad time on the company’s 15 stations beginning immediately.
Katz also added CBS Radio and Entercom last week, picking them off from Interep’s list.
Katz has also…
Last week, Aegis Group CEO Robert Lerwill resigned unexpectedly, sparking speculation that a takeover may be on the horizon.
Lerwill stepped down officially today (Monday), with Aegis chairman John Napier taking over his duties on an interim basis, writes MediaPost. People…
Out-of-home companies are bracing for the recession like everyone else, but they may not feel the sting as badly as other media.
Though the third quarter brought negative growth to the nation’s three largest OOH companies - Clear Channel Outdoor,…
The 82nd annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade pulled an average 12.6 rating/26 share on Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 27, according to Nielsen.
That was 8% higher than its telecast last year, Mediaweek writes. NBC estimated that a total 44.7 million viewers…
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…
Email, news gathering and paying bills continue to be the most widely used online activities among U.S. adults, but downloading TV programs, watching videos and making web phone calls posted the biggest overall growth, according to data from Mediamark Research…
