Category : Media & Publishing

Source: theglobeandmail.com Investors seeking growth have eschewed, quite rightly, the beleaguered newspaper publishing industry, as its members have recently been offering declining top lines. Value-oriented investors with an eye for meaty profit margins and chunky cash flow, however, have kept newspaper stocks in their sights……. read entire story        

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Source: winnipegfreepress.com TORONTO – Postmedia Network Canada Corp. lost $3.9 million in its third quarter as the newspaper and digital publisher pulled in less print advertising revenues and had higher expenses. The owner of the National Post newspaper and other major media properties said the loss amounted to 10 cents per share on $259 million in revenue, mainly from advertising, for …

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Source: theglobeandmail.com Newspaper publisher Postmedia Network Canada Corp. launched an experiment on Wednesday to ask readers to pay for content on its websites. read entire story

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Source:  editorandpublisher.com Virtually all newspapers have websites that look good and have great functionality. So why aren’t they all producing acceptable amounts of profit? The question probably should be asked differently, “What do consumers and advertisers expect from newspapers?” Then ask, “What do they expect from the Internet?” The answers are different, but there is overlap. The area of overlap …

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Source: torontosun.com Read entire story here:  Postmedia trims for digital age, listing | Money | Toronto Sun.

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But industry must adapt to digital world Newspapers won’t disappear: Postmedia president.

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Source: Editor&Publisher By: Bill Ostendorf A continued, gradual drop in print readership could be explained as a natural result of technological changes. But the dramatic drops experienced by newspapers in recent years have been greatly accelerated by our own, self-inflicted wounds. We’ve mangled our print publications with ill-timed and executed news hole reductions, publishing cycle changes, staff cuts, and price …

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Click here to read story by Ken Doctor Source:  niemanlab.org

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The Tyee – 2010: Year of the Really Super New New Journalism.

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McClatchy CEO: Death of newspaper classifieds greatly exaggerated | Poynter..

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