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Can Twitter advertising really work for newspapers?
Remember when newspapers debated the value and merits of using Twitter? Well, there’s a new question for news organizations to consider: Can newspapers use Twitter for advertising? In the last few...
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This Week in Review: Facebook’s IPO gone bad, and New Orleans loses its daily...
Facebook’s quick fall: A week ago, Facebook had just launched the largest, most buzzworthy initial public offering in years. And now, that IPO has already brought them a potentially massive lawsuit and...
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The newsonomics of majority reader revenue
Who would you rather support journalism, advertisers or readers? It’s a new question, one that made less sense to pose just three years ago. Now, though, with major shifts in the news market, it’s one...
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This Week in Review: Facebook’s IPO aftermath, and New Orleans’ cuts stoke...
Debating the meaning of Facebook’s IPO flop: Facebook’s fall following its initial public offering two weeks ago continued this week, with shares dropping under $30 (they were initially offered at...
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Why the Oregon Daily Emerald is transforming what it means to be a college...
When newspapers cut back on their print product it’s big news. When the New Orleans Times-Picayune — not to mention three other Newhouse newspapers in Alabama — announced it was reducing its print...
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Lessons from the Motor City: What New Orleans might expect when the printing...
DETROIT — It was exactly the kind of story you want a newspaper for: In 2008, Detroit Free Press reporters uncovered a trove of incriminating text messages that ultimately led to the resignation and...
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The newsonomics of Google (Ad) Singularity
Next Wednesday, Google hosts an all-day assemblage of news publishers in New York City. It won’t be the first meeting, but it’s an intriguing time to be talking “partnership” with news media. Why?...
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This Week in Review: Deep cuts in New Orleans, and Apple and Facebook join hands
(Since there was no review last week, this review is covering the last two weeks.) Big cuts in the Big Easy: Three weeks after news of the New Orleans Times-Picayune’s cutback to three-day-a-week...
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This Week in Review: The potential of Microsoft’s Surface, and keeping...
Microsoft’s unknown but intriguing tablet: Yet another company made its jump into the tablet market this week, but this was a more formidable competitor than most: Microsoft unveiled its new Surface...
View ArticleJohn Paton: “In Defense of the Times-Picayune”
The Journal-Register/Digital First chief dings Advance for poor communications and letting top talent go, but things too much of the criticism of the New Orleans Times-Picayune’s moves are just change...
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This Week in Review: Newspaper survival strategies, and the price of change...
Evaluating newspapers’ various strategies: Several wide-ranging strategies in the newspaper industry have been making headlines lately (Newhouse’s draconian cuts in New Orleans, Warren Buffett’s...
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This Week in Review: The bizarre anti-Muslim film, and challenging...
A bizarre video’s mysterious roots: The week’s big political story has been the killing of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans at an embassy in Libya, but it’s also been an extremely bizarre...
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The newsonomics of Advance’s New Orleans strategy
I was struck, as I’d bet many of you were, at how New Orleanians reacted to the impending lost of their daily print newspaper. People out in the streets (iconic for the ages Ted Jackson photo),...
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The newsonomics of Aaron Kushner’s virtuous circles
Aaron Kushner is the anti-Advance. Tomorrow, Advance makes digital origami of the Syracuse Post-Standard, going to three days a week of print (good Poynter inside view of the change). Its strategy:...
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Beyond Lehrer: Some optimism in Miami around foundations helping fill...
Editor’s note: If you heard about this week’s Knight Media Learning Seminar in Miami, it was almost certainly because Knight paid journo-fabulist Jonah Lehrer $20,000 to be its closing speaker....
View ArticleIt’s not quite The Times-Picayune, but there’s something coming back to...
Advance’s bold bet on cutting print days at New Orleans’ Times-Picayune just became…a little less bold. And maybe a little more confused? It’s creating new print products for the days of the week when...
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The newsonomics of the Kochs rising — and uprising
It’s official. Charles and David Koch think Warren Buffett may be right. After only sideways confirmation of their interest in buying the Tribune papers, Charles Koch on Wednesday explained the...
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The newsonomics of the Kochs: The impact on the L.A. news landscape
For more background on a potential Koch purchase of Tribune Company newspapers, see Part 1 of this piece. Let’s say that Charles and David Koch are successful in their now-announced quest (“The...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of Advance’s advancing strategy and its Achilles’ heel
Another city. Another melange of limited information, confused storytelling, and an unsuccessful attempt to put on a happy face to mask a huge change in newspapering and civic life. Last week, Oregon’s...
View ArticleIn New Orleans, public radio, local startups, and more are teaming up for the...
Editor’s note: Our friends at J-Lab have a new report out on an interesting subject: how public broadcasters — in radio and television — are trying to fill some of the void created by cutbacks at...
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At The Oregonian, reporters will be evaluated in part on how much copy they...
In the Portland alt-weekly Willamette Week, Aaron Mesh has word of a new evaluation system for journalists at The Oregonian — one of Advance Publications’ daily newspapers that have been rendered less...
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It looks like another sports team owner is about to buy another newspaper
That’s the report from John Vomhof Jr. of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal: Taylor Corp. and Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor is close to a deal to buy the Star Tribune, according to a...
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Who dat? In New Orleans, The Times-Picayune is making print a little more...
It’s probably not a happy morning in New Orleans. Despite leading 23-10 with less than four minutes left, a defensive breakdown and an incredibly poorly timed interception left the hometown Saints (my...
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