Newspapers Like Yahoo
To hear the New York Daily News and the Dallas Morning News tell it, the Yahoo Consortium has been a tremendous success.
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To hear the New York Daily News and the Dallas Morning News tell it, the Yahoo Consortium has been a tremendous success.
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Newspaper websites attracted an average of nearly 66.4 million unique visitors per month (40.2 percent of all internet users) in the second quarter, a 12.2 percent increase over the year-earlier period, according to a Nielsen Online custom analysis for the Newspaper Association of America - via MarketingCharts.
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Cox Radio’s revenues in the second quarter slipped 8.3 percent, to $108 million.That included a 6.1 percent drop in local revenues and a hefty 17.5 percent tumble in national revenues.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune is for sale - but, with the newspaper industry in a fine pickle, it is difficult to imagine who would be willing to snap it up.
The new monthly Sunday Los Angeles Times magazine, with its unusual operating arrangement, will launch September 7 with 140 pages, about half of them ads.
The Journal Register Co. - publisher of 27 newspapers - carries $640 million in debt, and has struck a deal with several banks to delay interest payments until the end of October.
Six million students attend traditional four-year colleges and universities full-time. The rest of the 16.6 million youths who attend college are in community colleges, are in graduate programs, or are attending part-time - yet 90 percent of dollars are spent to reach those 6 million four-year students, according to Mr. Youth.
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In a bid to lower costs by $50 million by early 2009, A.H. Belo Corp. will cut 500 full-time equivalent positions, or 14 percent of its workforce.
The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and Washingtonpost.com have the highest adult penetration in their local markets among printed newspapers and newspaper websites, respectively, according to (pdf) a new Scarborough Research report, MarketingCharts writes.
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The New York Times will increase the newsstand price of its Monday-Saturday editions to $1.50, effective Aug. 18. The current price is $1.25.
Newspaper readership in the top 100 markets grew to 80.6 million in spring 2008, up from 78.7 million a year earlier, or a gain of 2.5 percent, according to a spring 2008 Mediamark Research & Intelligence (MRI) survey, the Newspaper National Network LP reported (via MarketingCharts).
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Second-quarter profit at EW Scripps fell by 48 percent on revenue decline at its newspaper properties and costs related to spinning off its digital businesses; the company warned that third-quarter earnings would fall short of analyst expectations.
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The drastic cuts happening at Tribune Co. papers are a necessary evil if the papers are to survive to face the future, new owner Sam Zell said in a conference call with Tribune Co. reporters.
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The New York Times will deliver headlines to business and technology members of LinkedIn via a deal between the two that was announced yesterday (Monday).
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The Chicago Tribune will test dramatic changes in coming weeks, with the front section being devoted to consumer-oriented issues and entertainment features - and with local, national, international and business news relegated to section two.
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The weighted-average face value (WAFV) for free-standing insert (FSI) coupons increased 7.3 percent, to $1.34, in the first half of 2008 (compared with 1H07) - the highest WAFV on record, according to Marx Promotion Intelligence, a division of TNS media intelligence, MarketingCharts reports.
Most newspapers publish less national and foreign news than they did three years ago, and carry smaller news staffs, according to a study by the Pew Research Center and Tyler Marshall, former foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.
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Internet coupons have become of increasing interest to consumers, with 11 percent of households now obtaining coupons via the internet - an increase of 83 percent since 2005 - according to (pdf) a recent analysis by Scarborough Research, reports MarketingCharts.
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Merger and acquisitions deal value in the first half of 2008 for media, information, marketing services and related technologies was down significantly, though the number of transactions was up slightly, reported the Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) - via MarketingCharts.
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The Wall Street Journal is raising its cover price by a third, from $1.50 to $2.00. After the paper boosted its price from $1 to $1.50 last year, average single copy sales slipped about 8 percent.
