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Cox Shutting Down two Auto Books
Cox Enterprises subsidiary Cox Auto is folding two auto books in its AutoTrader/AutoMart unit, in a consolidation reflecting the continuing woes of print automotive classified advertising.
Posted Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 am CST
| | Pioneer Press Names VP/Advertising
The Sun-Times News Group, the principal operating subsidiary of Sun-Times Media Group Inc., has promoted Michael Sperling to vice president of advertising for the Pioneer Press group of newspaper titles.
Posted Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 am CST
| | 'Newsday' Appoints Senior VP/Advertising
Lee Jones has been tapped to serve as Newsday's senior vice president of advertising with oversight of all national, major retail and amNY ad sales.
Posted Monday, January 5, 2009 12:00 am CST
| | Sun-Times News Group Names VP/Classifieds
Jim Dyer has been appointed vice president, classified advertising at the Sun-Times News Group (STNG). Dyer, 46, was previously the eastern region vice president of sales for Digital Media Communications Inc.
Posted Monday, January 5, 2009 12:00 am CST
| | 'Omaha World-Herald' Ending Most West Nebraska Delivery
Next Feb. 2, The World-Herald in Omaha is ending its Midlands edition, which is delivered across much of the western half of Nebraska.
Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | J.C. Penney to Make Big After-Christmas Ad Push
J.C. Penney Co. Inc. said Tuesday it will advertise heavily with newspaper inserts featuring its "biggest after-Christmas sale ever."
Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | 'Financial Times' Appoints Global Director of Newspapers
The Financial Times has named Doug Morrow, global operations director of newspapers. He was previously global production and distribution director.
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | ShopLocal Lands Canwest Newspapers
Canwest, publisher of the Ottawa Citzen, the Montreal Gazette and nine other dailies, will be the exclusive Canadian supplier of products and services of ShopLocal, the Chicago-based joint venture of Gannett Co., Tribune Co., and The McClatchy Co., the company announced Thursday.
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | TNS: Media Spend Declined 2% in Third Quarter
Online remained one of the few bright spots, as display spending grew 7 percent versus the first three quarters of 2007.
Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | Yahoo Ad Partnership Paying Off, Says Media General
Media General, which has suffered some of the newspaper industry's biggest ad revenue declines because of its many newspapers are in slumping Florida, said Wednesday that its online advertising position is strengthening.
Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:00 am CST
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Staffers Face Pay Cut at North Carolina Alt-Weekly 'Mountain Xpress'
Facing a continuing decline in classified and retail advertising at his Asheville, N.C., alternative weekly Mountain Xpress, owner and Publisher Jeff Forbes is impposing an across-the-board pay cut of between 5% and 10% starting Jan. 1.
Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | 'K.C. Star' Restaurant Critic Lauren Chapin Dies at 50
Lauren Chapin, Kansas City Star restaurant critic for eight years and a James Beard Foundation award finalist in 2005, died Wednesday at age 50, two days after she collapsed during a workout. Her family told the Star she died from a ruptured aneurysm associated with a vascular malformation at the base of her brain.
Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | Muncie 'Star Press' Takes Home Hoosier State Press Association Awards
The Star Press in Muncie won 18 individual awards and 5 category awards and was named the 2008 General Excellence Award winner in its circulation category by the Hoosier State Press Association on Saturday.
Posted Monday, December 8, 2008 12:00 am CST
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The Future of Local Newspapers? It’s Shoved in My Mailbox…
I began receiving a free weekly newspaper jammed in my snail-mailbox about a year ago called Community Reporter. The newspaper is published by Gannett’s Asbury Park Press operating in New Jersey. The paper is thin, has 3 sections, and serves up content from 6 towns in my “area”. It also contains a classified section and [...]
Posted Tuesday, January 6, 2009 1:50 am CST
| | Remaindered Links January 5, 2009
Oops! Twitter phishing scam snares CNN anchor - from Cnet “I am on crack right now might not be coming into work today”
Mash Maker wins Sodosky Award - from the the mashmaker site “What if you could take data elements from multiple websites and mash them together into a single, integrated view? Intel Mash Maker [...]
Posted Monday, January 5, 2009 2:14 pm CST
| | Remaindered Newspaper Links January 2, 2009
Newspaper Publisher Lee Delisted From NYSE? - from Milwaukee.bizjournals The company’s share price has fallen below the acceptable minimum level for listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The Journal Register Company was delisted in April of 2007.
Connecticut Lawmaker Petitions for Newspaper Bailout - From Fox News: Connecticut, “Frank Nicastro, who represents Connecticut’s 79th assembly [...]
Posted Friday, January 2, 2009 1:10 pm CST
| | Online Advertising Prediction for 2009 - It Fails
This could come back to bite me in the ass but I’m going to make a prediction for 2009 that online display advertising and all that other junk like pop-ups fails big time this year.
Why Fail?
1) No one pays any attention to online display advertising. 2) There’s too much of it floating [...]
Posted Friday, January 2, 2009 5:56 am CST
| | Newspaper Publisher with an Excellent Attitude and A Solid Plan!
Scot Morrissey becomes the new Publisher of The Athens Banner-Herald and OnlineAthens.com today. Read his statements here. Somebody forward that article to Paul Mulshine.
Scot Morriessey:
While some newspaper executives complain that free access to news content online is killing paid circulation, turning a profit from an online product is just “logistics of business,” Morrissey said.
“We [...]
Posted Thursday, January 1, 2009 9:32 pm CST
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Readership Climbs, But Is It Enough?
Halloween week brought another trick — and no treat — to newspaper executives. A scary new FAS-FAX emerged, and for the six-month period ending September 2008, daily circ for 507 newspapers reporting to the Audit Bureau of Circulations dropped 4.6 percent to 38,165,848 copies.
Posted Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:51 am CST
| | BusinessWeek Publisher McGraw-Hill Cos. Cuts 375
The McGraw-Hill Cos., publisher of BusinessWeek, announced today that it lopped off another 375 positions in the fourth quarter of 2008 to contain costs in the down economic environment.
Posted Tuesday, January 6, 2009 8:54 am CST
| | Sun-Times, Monster Launch Co-Branded Sites
The Sun-Times Media Group Inc., which publishes the Chicago Sun-Times and other newspapers, and career Web site operator Monster Worldwide Inc. have agreed to launch co-branded job search and recruitment Web sites, the companies said Monday.
Posted Monday, January 5, 2009 10:02 am CST
| | NYT Sells First Front-Page Ads
The New York Times began selling front-page display ads, a first for the paper. CBS placed the ad this morning, which runs along the bottom in color, about two inches high.
Posted Monday, January 5, 2009 9:58 am CST
| | Forecast 2009: Print
Facing a brutal economy in 2008, big magazine chains closed some titles deemed to have a smaller chance of survival. At Time Inc., shelter magazine Cottage Living went by the wayside.
Posted Monday, January 5, 2009 11:01 am CST
| | M&A Report: Deal-Making at Lowest Level in Eight Years
With the credit markets frozen, deal-making slowed to its lowest level in at least eight years, with more deals falling through than getting done.
Posted Friday, January 2, 2009 10:33 am CST
| | Updated: Lee Enterprises Faces Debt Crisis
Lee Enterprises Inc., publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other newspapers, said in a regulatory filing that it will have trouble paying its debt over the next two years because of severe reductions in revenue.
Posted Friday, January 2, 2009 9:02 am CST
| | Trend: More Newspapers Sharing Content
Just a dozen years ago, newspapers on either side of Arlington, Texas, fought fiercely for every reader in the fast-growing city, spending millions of dollars to expand their staffs and cover the smallest meetings and sporting events.
Posted Friday, January 2, 2009 8:58 am CST
| | Lobbyist Linked to McCain Sues NYT
Vicki Iseman, the Washington lobbyist linked to Sen. John McCain in a controversial front-page New York Times article this past February, finally sued the newspaper today over it (see separate story), charging defamation and damage to her career, and declaring that any claims of “inappropriate” contact with the senator, romantic or otherwise, are false. The paper said it stands by its story. But how did it all begin and develop last winter?
Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 3:59 am CST
| | McClatchy Co. Delays Close of Miami Land Sale
The McClatchy Co. said on Tuesday that it is extending the closing date of the sale of its Miami property.
Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:23 am CST
| | Knight Foundation Freezes Salaries, Jobs
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, one of the leading grant providers for journalism, is freezing salaries and leaving open positions vacant to save money, according to Foundation President Alberto Ibarguen.
Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:18 am CST
| | Consumers Union Grabs Gawker's Consumerist Site
Adding to its growing portfolio of print and online properties, Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, bought watchdog blog Consumerist.com from Gawker Media.
Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:42 am CST
| | Newspaper Stocks Crashed in '08
This was a bad year for stocks, as anyone with a 401 (k) well knows. The Dow is down 36 percent, the S&P 500 by more than 40 percent. Yet publicly traded newspaper publishers can only envy that decline.
Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:35 am CST
| | Nielsen: Time Spent Down on Major Paper Sites
The average time spent at most of the top 30 newspaper Web sites (as ranked by unique visitors) went down in November compared to the same period a year ago, according to the latest data from Nielsen Online.
Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 12:05 am CST
| | Ex-Miami Herald Chief Chapman Dead at 87
Alvah H. Chapman Jr., the former Miami Herald president/CEO and civic leader who helped building the modern city there has died at 87.
Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 10:48 am CST
| | Parade Adds 71 Papers in 2008
Parade magazine reports it has signed up 71 new newspapers in 2008, claiming at least 53 have come from the ranks of rival USA Weekend’s clients. It boasts 470 newspapers, according to a release.
Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 10:46 am CST
| | Chicago Papers See Troubled Future
A little more than a century ago, Chicago boasted 11 daily English-language newspapers.
Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 8:33 am CST
| | NYT Web Traffic Up, Ad Revenue Down
Internet advertising revenues for the Times collection of Web sites (NYTimes.com, About.com, Boston.com, etc.) dipped 3.8 percent last month
Posted Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:38 am CST
| | 'Washington Post,' 'Baltimore Sun' to Share Content
Longtime rivals for influence and readers in and outside the Beltway -- announced Tuesday they will soon share news and sports stories as well as photos
Posted Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:24 am CST
| | Big Gains Among Top 30 Newspaper Web Sites
The Detroit News soared 232 percent to 1.9 million uniques in November compared to the same period a year ago, according to the latest data from Nielsen Online
Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:13 am CST
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