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A Good List of College Newspapers
Journalism Degree.org just posted a list of 100 Exemplary College Newspapers for Journalism Students. The ranking isn’t in any particular order and there’s no explanation of what methodology (if any)...
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Red Sox Owner Henry Buys Boston Globe
Four years of turmoil appear to be nearing an end in Boston with news that billionaire financier and Red Sox owner John Henry will buy the Globe for $70 million. The deal came quickly after Henry’s...
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Billionaires Buy in Big
New media tycoon Jeff Bezos (Image via CrunchBase) History may well mark the typically somnambulant first week of August, 2013 as the week that forever changed the U.S. newspaper industry. In a...
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AOL Expected to Gut Patch Network
Several news outlets are reporting that AOL will shut down one-third of its Patch network of hyperlocal news sites and lay off about 300 people today. Newsday says AOL will close about 300 of its 900...
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Paywalls Come Tumbling Down
The San Francisco Chronicle is removing its paywall after just four months and the Dallas Morning News plans to follow suit. Observers are speculating that this could be the end of the nearly...
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Last-Minute Deal Saves Star-Ledger From Shutdown
To no one’s great surprise, management and leaders of four unions at the Newark Star-Ledger reached an 11th-hour agreement on a new four-year contract that will save the 171-year-old daily from...
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World’s Oldest Newspaper to Exit Print
We usually focus news of comings and goings on this site solely on major metropolitan dailies, but we’ll make an exception for Lloyd’s List, which claims to be the world’s oldest daily newspaper and...
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Why Google May Be Journalists’ New BFF
Google has arguably been the worst enemy of working journalists for the last decade, but now the tide is turning and the search giant is trying to repair the damage it has done. It deserves our...
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Journalism Rock Stars Seek Greener New-Media Pastures
“There is no longer a defined final destination for talented journalists,” writes Emily Bell in The Guardian. “The New York Times is surprised to find itself a stepping stone.” Bell is writing about...
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Why Billionaires Are Trying to Rescue the Newspaper Industry
Jeff Bezos (right) may be the most prominent rich person to buy into the newspaper industry recently, but he’s not the only one. Billionaires have been opening their checkbooks with astonishing...
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Has BuzzFeed Cracked the Code of New-Media Success?
We did a double-take when we saw this headline on Bloomberg last week: “BuzzFeed Said to Expect 2014 Sales of Up to $120 Million.” If you haven’t paid much attention to BuzzFeed, now is a good time to...
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R.I.P. Print Edition of The Onion – You’ll Forgive Us for Not Crying
Final print edition of The Onion It is neither major, metro nor daily, but we would be remiss in not marking the passage from the world of the printed page of The Onion, which has long borne the...
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R.I.P. North Adams Transcript
The North Adams Transcript, a daily fixture in northwestern Massachusetts since 1843, will be merged into the larger Berkshire Eagle later this month. The Transcript name will be discontinued and its...
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A Former Publisher’s Take on the Closure of the North Adams Transcript
Martin Langeveld is a 30-year newspaper publishing veteran who was for 13 years the publisher of several newspapers in Northwestern Massachusetts and southern Vermont. He also was executive vice...
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Rosy Forecasts about the Future of News
Marc Andreessen, internet pioneer and founder of Netscape at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, CA (Photo credit: TechShowNetwork) Pretty much anything Marc Andreessen writes is worth reading, and his...
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Are New Media Companies in a Race to the Bottom?
With BuzzFeed and Upworthy reporting eye-popping traffic growth and planning to hire teams of reporters, many people are wondering whether sharing is the new currency of media success. The idea is that...
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Growth in Circ Revenues Can’t Offset Ongoing Print Ad Decline
Circulation revenue for U.S. newspapers grew for the second consecutive year, rising 3.7% to $10.87 billion in 2013, according to preliminary data from the Newspaper Association of America. Source:...
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Why Page Views Suck
Are page views your primary measure of success for your website or a story thereupon? Well cut it out. Page views are about as relevant an indicator of content value as the height of the starting...
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The New York Times Gives Itself a Good Thrashing
A speech in The New York Times newsroom after the announcement of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We finally got a chance to read through the 96-page “Innovation” report...
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A Graphical View of Newspaper Innovation
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) was in denial during the early years of the industry’s crash, but lately the organization has been doing good work to highlight the new spirit of innovation...
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