Recently added articles from NewsInc:
McCLATCHY, MEDIA GENERAL, NYT CO. HAVE GOOD SECOND Qs But ad revenue down 26% in period, while classified off 40%.(The New York Times Co)(Financial report)
Aug 03, 2009; ... With all but one of the publicly traded newspaper businesses having reported quarterly earnings, it can be safe to say that newspaper ad revenue plunged almost another 26-3/4 percent when compared to the same period last year, with classified ad revenue down the sharpest of all the ...
M&A GRAB BAG: BOSTON, AUSTIN AND MAGS.(mergers and acquisitions)
Aug 03, 2009; ... It's been a veritable grab-bag of media mergers and acquisitions in the last two weeks, with newspaper companies selling off magazines and radio stations, The New York Times Co. getting definite bids on its New England properties, The Hearst Corp. taking a larger position in the credit ...
TRIBUNE SEEKS MORE TIME FOR CH. 11 PLAN.
Aug 03, 2009; ... Chicago's Tribune Co. asked its U.S. Bankruptcy court judge last Monday for an extension on putting together its plan to exit Chapter 11, which it filed last December. Filers traditionally have 120 days to put together a plan but regularly ask for extensions, which can go on for 18 months; ...
AP TO LAUNCH 'NEWS REGISTRY' FOR CONTENT.(The Associated Press)
Aug 03, 2009; ... An effort by The Associated Press to "assure compliance with terms of use" of the content it -- and its 1500 daily U.S. newspaper members -- create may in fact be more applicable for capturing the first position on in a search engine's listing. The wire service said on July 23 ...
BRIEFS.
Aug 03, 2009; ... *L.A. Times to distribute O.C. Register: Two long-term Southern California newspaper rivals said last week they had cut a deal for the bigger of the two to circulate the smaller. The 723,181-circulation Los Angeles Times and the 230,877-circulation Orange County Register said on Wednesday ...
PERSONS.(briefs)
Aug 03, 2009; ... Executive suite: At Boone Newspapers Inc. of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Steve Stewart has been named vice president for the Virginia and North Carolina region; he remains publisher of the Tidewater News of Franklin, Va., a job he's held since 2006. Earlier, Stewart was publisher of Clarksdale Press ...
TRIBUNE TO SELL CUBS; SUN-TIMES MEDIA CASH PERILOUSLY LOW TD Ameritrade founders to pay $845M for club, Wrigley Field, TV.
Aug 24, 2009; ... Chicago was the focus of the newspaper bankruptcy beat last week -- though Philadelphia made a run at catching our eye -- as Tribune Co. finally cut a deal to sell its Chicago Cubs National Baseball League franchise and Sun-Times Media Group Inc. was reported to be down to the tail end of ...
TWO BIDDERS GET BOSTON GLOBE TOURS.
Aug 24, 2009; ... While one of the potential suitors of the Boston Globe didn't get invited for a tour of the facilities last week, two did, as its owner, The New York Times Co., continued the sale process for the 302,638-circulation daily, the nearby Worcester Telegram & Gazette and their web sites. ...
BOCA RATON PAPER GOES ON-LINE ONLY.
Aug 24, 2009; ... A continuing depressed economy forced publishers last week to make even more cutbacks, as a paper in South Florida went on-line only, a daily in suburban Chicago cut out its Saturday edition, while papers in St. Louis and Colorado laid off workers. On Thursday executives at ...
2 OUTED AS JOURNALISM ON-LINE AFFILIATES.(Journal Communications Inc.)
Aug 24, 2009; ... Despite a reluctance to name any of its 500-plus signers of letters of intent, Journalism On-line -- the new business designed to digital publishers garner some sort of subscriber income -- two names (and perhaps a third) crept out last week. PaidContent.org on Tuesday said that ...
BRIEFS.(Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Co.)
Aug 24, 2009; ... *Salt Lake papers become real estate brokers: The business formerly known as the the Newspaper Agency Corp. of Salt Lake City -- now calling itself MediaOne of Utah -- started advertising a new service last week as a real estate brokerage. The company, which handles the non-editorial ...
PERSONS.(Cox Radio Inc. appoints Doug Franklin and Bob Neil as vice presidents)
Aug 24, 2009; ... Cox reorg: At Cox Media Group of Atlanta, which last week reorganized itself around geographic groupings rather than by discrete media, Doug Franklin and Bob Neil have been named executive vice presidents. Previously, Franklin had been executive vice president of Cox Newspapers, a unit ...
FREEDOM MAY GO CHAPTER 11; PHILLY PLAN GETS FARTHER Orange County Register parent says it's 'working with our lenders'.(Freedom Communications Inc)
Aug 31, 2009; ... In the last days of the month, August continued its focus on newspaper business bankruptcies, as the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Freedom Communications Inc. of Irvine, Calif. -- publisher of the Orange County Register and 32 other dailies, as well as eight TV stations -- ...
MEDIANEWS TAKES OVER COLORADO PAPERS.(MediaNews Group Inc.)(Colorado Daily of Boulder)(The Camera)(Broomfield Enterprise )
Aug 31, 2009; ... Dissolving the last of its partnership with The E.W. Scripps Co., MediaNews Group Inc. of Denver last week said it had taken control of The Camera and the Colorado Daily of Boulder, the Broomfield Enterprise and nine other newspaper titles in the state. MediaNews, publisher of ...
WHAT'S AN ON-LINE NEWS SITE READER WORTH?
Aug 31, 2009; ... While a writer for Columbia Journalism Review earlier this month calculated that an on-line visitor to a newspaper web site is worth roughly $46 a year in ad revenue (and his counterpart paid reader of the print product brought in $940 in 2008), a New York City marketing lead-generation ...
BRIEFS.
Aug 31, 2009; ... *L.A. Times adds another partner: The Ventura County Star said last week that it had signed up with the Los Angeles Times to participate in the larger paper's late-week, total market coverage ad insert program. The addition will bring 95,000 East Ventura County households to the Times' ...
PERSONS.(appointments)
Aug 31, 2009; ... Executive suite: At the New York Times Regional Media Group in Tampa, Fla., Dan Shorter has been named vice president of digital media; previously, he was president of digital media at the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, a job he'd held since early 2008. Earlier, he spent six years as general ...
