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- Too Late for Newspapers to Turn the Tide? [view article]
- Best and Worst Performing Stocks Seven Months Into 2008 [view article]
- How Newsrooms Throw Away Value by Not Linking to Web Sources [view article]
- 9 Questions on Newspapers' 2Q Reports [view article]
- Bad Week (and Decade) for Newspapers [view article]
- 5 Key Quotes from the New York Times Co. on the Newspaper Industry [view article]
- Help Wanted: Newspaper Classified Ad Sales Continue to Slide [view article]
- A Silver Lining in the Newspaper Crisis [view article]
- What Do You Buy When You Buy a Newspaper Company? [view article]
- L.A. Times: The Inconvenient Poster Child for the Newspaper Debacle [view article]
- Rethinking Newspapers vs. the Internet [view article]
- The Latest Nail In Newspapers' Coffin: Outsourcing [view article]
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Too Late for Newspapers to Turn the Tide? [view article]
For my part I entertain a high idea of the utility of periodical publications; insomuch as I could heartily desire, copies of ... magazines, as well as common Gazettes, might be spread through every city, town, and village in the United States. I consider such vehicles of knowledge more happily calculated than any other to preserve the liberty, stimulate the industry, and ameliorate the morals of a free and enlightened people.- George Washington, 1788.=================
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Best and Worst Performing Stocks Seven Months Into 2008 [view article]
I agree with helsi. The last seven months for RDN was looking pretty bad, but all it took was a little legislation to be passed for it to soar. This stock deserves to be on the other chart now. Who would have guessed an 80 cent stock would hit $5 in such a short time period?! Timing is everything. ReplyToo Late for Newspapers to Turn the Tide? [view article]
I worked for a paper whose leadership 10 yrs ago said the internet was a fad. They then built a new printing facility with 3 times excess capacity because they didn't want to 'outgrow it too fast'. Since then they've had several layoffs and have been slow to embrace the internet. ReplyToo Late for Newspapers to Turn the Tide? [view article]
On July 29th gannett announced it had mad a minority investment in Mogulus. A New York based Internet video platform. I know Gannett has been webcasting some video off it's newspaper websites. Indystar.com for example webcast Obama interview with Indianapolis Star Editorial board during the May primarys. It received high volume of hits. Is this the kind of video investment newspapers should make you speak of Ashkan? ReplyHow Newsrooms Throw Away Value by Not Linking to Web Sources [view article]
I agree. Unfortunatley, too many dinosaurs still exist in this industry and many of them are still the ones that make the decisions. Reply9 Questions on Newspapers' 2Q Reports [view article]
To answer question 9, the short answer is "not much if any". A trend line model (ARIMA) and forecast (Monte Carlo) show a decline of 13% in 2008 and an additional 12% in 2009. Interestingly, when I build the last three recessions into the model, there is only a slight change in the expected values. There are going to be major realignments over the short term...and a very rough ride for some. Replyfredrickson
Too Late for Newspapers to Turn the Tide? [view article]
Video is definitely a path that newspapers should follow. It's news, it's easy to get if done correctly, and readers like it. Most newspapers that put video online find that these videos are popular.There are so many things newspapers can and should do with video, here are a few.
1. Ask the newspaper's online community to submit their own videos of newsworthy events, then pay someone to edit and load the best videos online. Promote this heavily!
2. Have an entire series of educational themes sponsored by advertisers, like travel, home improvement, etc. Keep a library of those videos that people can refer to when they want to watch it. Promote this video library to the market.
3. Partner up with the number 2 tv station in each market and have their news videos run on newspaper websites. Win-win for all parties. Promote this partnership!
There are at least 25 more things that newspapers can do to get video online, and many newspapers are now doing some of them. I don't think it's too late, but you need people with vision at the top to push the video button.
Jay Fredrickson
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Too Late for Newspapers to Turn the Tide? [view article]
As a former project director/consultant for a mega city media group, I often come across many small and large newspaper groups who provide web video links to their glocal audience. So, not ALL publishers ignore beneficial and justified advice/recommendations... Replytographer
Too Late for Newspapers to Turn the Tide? [view article]
About two years ago I was the webmaster for 8 (now 4) papers in Central California. I told the Publisher, that I was putting video online and gave him a target date. I was ignored. Then I did it on the target date. I was shooting local video and putting it online. A month later I was told to pull the video because we had no policy and ad people did not want the extra work of selling commercials. I now work for a Business publication in the Central valley in which 75% of the feature stories we do is with video. ReplyBest and Worst Performing Stocks Seven Months Into 2008 [view article]
Nice article, but more informative would be using the same criteria for the last 6 - 7 weeks. ReplyDispundit
Bad Week (and Decade) for Newspapers [view article]
Newspapers and traditional media compete via litigation not by inovation. It's their culture.... That is why the legal budgets for news exceeds the editorial budgets.What is worse is that the national news media in the USA is still predominantly a monopoly controlled by the associated press...and we all know how they feel about the internet. Reply
Best and Worst Performing Stocks Seven Months Into 2008 [view article]
Banks and Broker firms wrapped toxic waste i.e.: subprime, credit card debt, car loans, etc. into structured finance vehicles i.e.: CDO-ABS-MBS-SIVs and misled the market into buying them and bond insurers into insure them and now they have to clear their books from this toxic waste which is going to take time quarter after quarter but without a doubt will improve their book value. Reply9 Questions on Newspapers' 2Q Reports [view article]
No, other's will take Google's ad model and do it one better. But as a dominant market facilitator they do have time and have done wonderful preparing for the future mid and long-term. Just like K-Mart became less dominant then Wal Mart or Yahoo less dominant for Google. Was Google so wizbang or did it do something so simple and powerful to save a web-surfers time?Online ad vendors are crooked in general. Fraud is rampant and Google was not fully except from this behavior. See Google's class action lawsuit. They are cleaning up there act fast and they should, search is about the only decent performing sector of online ads.
Consolidation of major companies such as Omnicom combined with online ad networks like Ad.com and then throw in data companies like Alliance and your form some pretty serious competition. Right now, like Google for the short term and mid-term, we'll have to see what the longer term brings in economic correction that effects the entire ad market across the board.
I have no position in Google but am in Consumer Healthcare/Online Marketing, Clinical Trials etc. Reply
Bad Week (and Decade) for Newspapers [view article]
Newspapers really have a lot of opportunity to lock in current customers and gain new ones, especially the young adults that read online.1.Stop hardcopy print and buy all current and future customers computers.
2. Have the IT dept control and lock in the Newspaper for the default home page.
3. Have the IT dept run a screen saver with clients’ ads 24/7 that are clickable.
This would allow ads to run 24/7 in millions of homes and the locked-in home page would be priceless. These tasks can be done through coding. This would give the newspapers a fighting chance. Reply
Bad Week (and Decade) for Newspapers [view article]
what would the world be like without the ny time??? Reply