Tribune Co.’s sale of Newsday to Cablevision allows Tribune and its new chairman, Sam Zell, to put $600 million in expected cash proceeds toward its roughly $13 billion debt. This buys Tribune Co. more time to implement plans to turn around the business.
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The Christian Science Monitor is considering a weekly edition; the long-term goal may be to phase out the daily edition of the newspaper.
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After Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. yanked its $580 million bid for Newsday on Saturday (via MediaPost and the Wall Street Journal), Cablevision announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to buy the
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Among the near-constant doom and gloom reporting about the newspaper industry, every now and then comes a story that points out how smaller, community newspapers are bucking the trend.
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Newspaper editors believe the daily paper will survive in the age of the internet, but think they will change to become free, and to place a greater emphasis on comment and opinion in the future
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is slicing its distribution area from 74 to 49 counties in a move that will reduce its circulation by 2.2 percent daily and 1.9 percent on Sunday.
Abu Dhabi is launching a new English-language newspaper that the editor, Martin Newland, promises will be comparable to the Wall Street Journal.
The latest report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed that daily newspapers have been busily engaged in business as usual: losing readers.
Emmis Communications, owner of 25 radio stations, has decided to help internet radio companies make it on the web.
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Succumbing to the rising costs of delivering newspapers to its customers, an Indiana paper is making the switch from home delivery to delivery by the U.S. Postal Service.
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Public interest groups and lawmakers are gearing up to fight against a Rupert Murdoch-owned Newsday.
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The Commerce Committee is hoping to reverse changes to the ban on media cross-ownership that the FCC voted for last December.
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The New York Times’ website has allowed interruptive, full-screen takeovers in the online experience, but never in front of its own home page - until now.
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Journal Communications, Inc. was struck hard by weakness in retail and classified advertising revenue at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and by a decline in local radio advertising.
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McClatchy lost $849,000, or a penny a share, in Q1 compared to the same quarter last year, due to the weak economy and a continuing loss of advertising to the internet.
Print newspapers ads reach people at all stages of the buying cycle - inspiring web research at the beginning and prompting in-store/web purchase at the end, said the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), citing a Google study - via MarketingCharts.
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Brauchli After less than a year as managing editor at the Wall Street Journal, Marcus Brauchli has had enough of the job. He is expected to hand in his letter of resignation as early as today. No successor has been pinpointed as of yet.
Rupert Murdoch has succeeded in nabbing an agreement in principle from Tribune Co. to purchase Newsday for about $580 million in what would be a joint venture.
Gannett is developing a one-stop shop for buyers to purchase ads across platforms in an attempt to aggregate consumers for advertisers.
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The Wall Street Journal, which is waging a full-frontal attack on The New York Times by fattening its business news, politics and sports reporting, has made changes to section A, adding a third daily page of opinion content plus two new columnists.
