Charging (a lot!) for news online: The Newport Daily News’ new experiment...
The Newport Daily News kept waiting for someone else to figure out how to make money giving away news online. But with no obvious solution in sight, its leaders have decided to try an answer of their...
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Earnings season, Part 2: Intel from the quarterly filings of Scripps, Belo,...
As a followup to my report on fourth-quarter 2009 earnings reports from most of the major public newspaper firms, we now have earnings releases from E. W. Scripps, A. H. Belo, the Washington Post Co....
View ArticleHummel Report: Another nonprofit news org with an anti-govt.-waste message...
Sheila Conlin is a veteran television journalist who currently works at NBC News Channel and is finishing up a master’s degree in journalism. As part of her degree, she put together the video report...
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Dallas Morning News publisher on paywall plans: “This is a big risk”
In talking about the Dallas Morning News’ plans to begin charging for digital content next month, Jim Moroney is surprisingly candid about the decision and the economics of the industry. When the...
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Checking in with the Newport Daily News: Two years after a digital paywall,...
The Newport (R.I.) Daily News might have been ahead of its time in offering the Frank Rich discount: The newspaper charges a hefty premium for digital-only access in hopes of boosting print...
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The newsonomics of Anton Chekhov
“Three Sisters,” like most of Anton Chekhov’s plays, smells of decline. His works, set in the decaying Russia of the late 19th century, offer an odd resonance to our time, a time of doubt, loss, and...
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This Week in Review: Newspapers’ culture clash, and paywalls pick up momentum
[After a week off last week, this week’s review covers the past two weeks.] Cultural roots of news’ revenue problems: Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released this week one of the more...
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Understanding the billionaire media gambles
Our journalism business never ceases to provide surprises and fodder for speculation — that’s what makes this year-end round of prediction posts so much fun and, often, so far off base. For example,...
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The newsonomics of the for-profit move in local online news
Josh Fenton is an ad guy running a local news startup. Therein lies our tale. GoLocal24 is a different kind of online startup. It’s for-profit, unlike so many of the city startups we’ve seen. It’s...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of auctioning off Digital First’s newspapers (and California...
Could the sale of the Digital First Media properties lead to the U.S.’s first quasi-national newspaper company? That’s the hope of DFM’s current owners, and the shiniest lure tossed out into the...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Crimetown shows the podcast potential for local media partnership
Buddy Cianci once sold newspapers. Now he sells podcasts. That link — surfaced gloriously in Gimlet Media’s Crimetown podcast — tells us lots about the rollicking pace of change in newsy digital media....
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The Boston Globe’s move into Rhode Island is a bet that the last newspapers...
The Boston Globe, the first local newspaper to have more digital subscribers than print, is now investing in more local coverage. In Rhode Island. After past investments in covering marijuana, the...
View ArticleIn Rhode Island, the state’s largest daily no longer has any opinions of its own
It is not news that Gannett, by far America’s largest newspaper chain, is cutting costs. (“Newspaper Cuts Costs” is perhaps the most banal headline of the past two decades.) The central argument for...
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