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Audience Expands As Business Contracts
The paradox continues: U.S. newspaper readership continues to grow as the business model collapses. The Audit Bureau of Circulation figures for March are in and daily circulation for the reporting...
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Times-Picayune Eliminates Daily Frequency
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, a fixture in the Big Easy since 1837, will slash its staff and production schedule, going from 7 to 3 days a week beginning this fall. The body count isn’t known yet,...
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New Journalism Debate Gets Nasty
Tom Foremski could be excused for trashing the business model Henry Blodget has used to get Business Insider over the profitability hump, but he chooses to trash journalism traditionalists who...
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Short Cuts: Warren Buffett, Newsman; Industry Revenue Continues to Plunge
Stuff we’ve bookmarked recently. Warren Buffett Buying Newspapers by the Bushel Warren Buffett(New York Times photo) The world’s ultimate value investor – Warren Buffett – has apparently decided that...
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Pension Funds, Journatic and Other Travesties
Maybe it’s the summer slowdown kicking in, but the news has been mostly bad this month. Why must all media coverage of newspapers have a photo like this? David Carr writes about a little-discussed...
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Serious Insight From a Very Funny Man
Photo via Wikimedia Commons Editor & Publisher caught up with humorist Dave Barry to talk about receiving the 2013 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper...
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Can You Make a Living at 20¢/Word? You Might be Surprised
We got a come-on from one of those content-farming services the other day, but instead of throwing it away in disgust, we decided to run the numbers instead. The e-mail promised us the possibility of...
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Lemmings with Microphones
Jeff Jarvis nails it with this headline: ”Reporters: Why are you in Tampa?” And he goes it one better by running some numbers that estimate that media organizations will spend $30 million this week...
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Offshore Reporting No Longer So Far-Fetched
Ever heard of James Macpherson? If you’re a veteran journalist, you probably have, although you might know him better as “that asshole who fired his entire reporting staff and outsourced local coverage...
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Journal Register Bankrupt – Again
Journal Register Co., which has been the poster child for the “digital first” strategy that many newspapers are pursuing, declared bankruptcy today, just three years after emerging from a previous...
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As USA Today Turns 30, Columnists Write Its Obituary
USA Today First Edition, 1982 via Fast Horse blog As USA Today celebrates its 30th birthday, columnists are wondering it it’ll see 40. Or even 35. Writing in Editor & Publisher, John K. Hartman...
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Surprise! Researchers See Industry Growth
Here’s a news item we didn’t expect to see. Borrell Associates now predicts that U.S. newspaper revenue will rise in 2013, although only by a scant .5%. If the prediction holds true, it would be the...
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Newsweek to Go Out of Print
A year that has already seen the demise of one print institution – Encyclopedia Britannica – has now marked the end of another. Newsweek magazine will publish its last print edition in December and...
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Misinformation Flourished During Superstorm – and That’s Just Fine
The photo at right was one of several that made the rounds on the Internet as Hurricane Sandy lashed the east coast on Monday and Tuesday of this week. It’s a powerful image. It’s also completely...
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As Editorial Walls Crumble, Advertisers Rush In
Journalism traditionalists who suffer from high blood pressure probably shouldn’t read this piece by Forbes editor Lewis DVorkin. In it, he outlines the role of what he calls “brand journalism” in the...
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Forthcoming Documentary Looks at Impact of Newspaper Declines
Two filmmakers who identify themselves as Lenny Feinberg and Chris Foster have released a trailer for what they say will be an upcoming documentary called Black and White and Dead All Over. We haven’t...
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Newspaper Industry Decline – The Infographic
ClickInks, which sells ink, has created an infographic that documents the rise and fall of the newspaper industry. Its SEO specialist writes, “We wanted to provide a fun and useful resource that...
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Google Now Bigger than U.S. Print Media Industry
Statistics portal Statista (which we rate officially awesome) has this graphic showing that Google’s advertising revenues now exceed those of the entire print media industry put together. “Google, a...
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Another Documentary Celebrates Newspapers
Physician and award-winning documentary filmmaker Ben Daitz (now there’s a combination you don’t see too often) Has been keeping us up-to-date on his latest project, a documentary that celebrates...
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Newsweek’s Final Print Cover
We’ve posted quite a few final covers and front pages over the last five years but this is one our favorite. With Newsweek set to shut down its print operations today after a 79-year run, the magazine...
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