The Newsonomics of Why Paywalls Now?
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab Though it’s spring training season, forget Moneyball — think Paywall. The money now flowing into newspaper companies due to paywalls is getting to be seriously...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of A News Company of the Future, the FT
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab What will news companies look like in 2018? How will they operate differently? That future is coming into focus. While many publishers’ vision is still quite...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of GAFA’s Global Reach
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab The median age of a Google employee: 29. The median age of a newspaper company employee, in the United States: 45. That’s not the most telling number of our...
View ArticleNAA’s New Revenue Report: Been Down So Long Looks Like Up to Publishers
As I checked out the National Association of Newspapers first-of-its-kind report – The American Newspaper Media Industry Revenue Profile 2012 — being released today, my mind kept reeling back to a...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of recycling journalism
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab There’s an important number in his week’s first-of-its-kind Newspaper Association of America report — The American Newspaper Media Industry Revenue Profile 2012...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Pulitzers, Paywalls, and Investing in the Newsroom
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab Noteworthy in the 2013 Pulitzer announcements are the multiple winners. The New York Times won four and the Star Tribune two. Having just wrapped up a session...
View ArticleNYT 1Q Numbers: Back to Revenue Loss as Ad Declines Swamps Reader Revenue Gain
The big number in the New York Times Company’s quarterly report today is a double-digit one: 13.3% That’s the Times’ loss in print ad revenue, and it’s a number — if it continues into the year — that...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of the Koch Brothers and the Sales of U.S.’ Top Metros
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab It almost makes wary Tribune watchers pine for Rupert Murdoch. In what is shaping up to be the biggest sale of metro U.S. newspapers in history, with six of the...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of the Mobile Aggregator Roundup: Pulse, Summly, Zite…..&...
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab What are we to think when the aggregators start getting aggregated? That’s what’s happening in the mobile aggregation space. Put those two little words — mobile...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Influentials, from D.C. to Singapore to Raleigh
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab It’s a season of new product launches, but you have to roam around the country and the world to find them. You have to look for the niches they’re trying to...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Where NewsRight Went Wrong
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab Quietly, very quietly, NewsRight — once touted as the American newspaper industry’s bid to protect its content and make more money from it — has closed its...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Climbing the Ad Food Chain
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab The numbers are sobering. While digital advertising has been growing at a 15 percent pace annually in the United States, the digital ad sales of news companies...
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The Newsonomics of the Kochs Rising — and Uprising
Related posts: The Tribune’s Metro Agony, The Koch Brothers and the Sale of the U.S. Top Metros, Rupert Murdoch’s Long Game First published at Nieman Journalism Lab It’s official. Charles and David...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of the Kochs: Impact on the L.A. News Landscape
Companion piece: The Newsonomics of the Kochs Rising — and Uprising Related posts: The Tribune’s Metro Agony, The Koch Brothers and the Sale of the U.S. Top Metros, Rupert Murdoch’s Long Game First...
View ArticleGannett Now a Broadcast Company, More or Less
Today, you’d rather be a broadcasting company than a newspaper company. For Gannett, the Belo purchase —$1.5 billion in cash (plus assuming debt of $715 million) for 20 largely geographically...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Hearst Magazines’ One Million New Customers
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab Take this quiz. The era of paying for digital access (a.k.a. digital circulation or paywalls) is about: Getting more money out of core subscribers; Getting new...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Spies vs. Spies, from NSA to Google
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab So who do you root for in this coming battle, as Google petitions the feds? Are you on the side of Big Brother or Little Brother — and remind me, which is...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Advance’s Advancing Strategy & Its Achilles’ Heel
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab 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...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Shop ‘Til You Hop
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab What if an ad was e-commerce — the distance between “advertising” and “buying” suddenly shortened? That reality, long on whiteboards, is now upon us....
View ArticleThe newsonomics of 2013’s second half, from ad depression to day dropping to...
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab The news world already has produced enough news for a whole year in the first half of 2013. What lies ahead for the second half of the year? We’ve got all kinds...
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