Digital nabs 77% of classified sales, says study
More than three-quarters of the global classified marketplace formerly dominated by print has moved to the digital media, according to an ambitious new study from a consulting firm. In the first...
View ArticleUSA Weekend shuts as costs spike and ads tumble
USA Weekend, the second-largest Sunday newspaper magazine in the United States, will print its final edition on Dec. 28, succumbing to soaring distribution costs and plunging advertising. The...
View ArticleHow newspapers lost the Millennials
American publishers and editors have only themselves to blame for failing to connect with the Millennial generation that they – and most of their advertisers – covet the most. The inability of...
View ArticleUC-Berkeley seeks international journalists
Applications are being accepted through Jan. 5 for a unique program providing mid-career journalists from outside the U.S. with an opportunity to pursue advanced professional training and academic...
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Historic mobile ad surge threatens print
If you compare the modest amount of time that consumers read newspapers with the billions in advertising dollars spent on the medium, you will see that newspapers long have captured far more than their...
View ArticleWelcome to ‘Everyware’ computing
Our imaginative friends in the technology industry intend to make computing simpler and arguably more satisfying by making it more intuitive than ever. Here’s how: They will saturate our environment...
View ArticleWe’ll miss David Carr more than we know
With the rules of journalism and the media business evolving at Internet speed, David Carr was a savvy, centered and sensitive commentator who teased the facts from the frenzy with warmth, wit and...
View ArticleSo long again, Chicago Daily News
On March 4, 1978, the presses fell silent for the last time at the Chicago Daily News, an iconic and crusading newspaper that was unable to adapt to changing times. The following article, which...
View ArticleHow to capture fly-by digital visitors
Now that most newspapers have been in the digital publishing business for the better part of two decades, it’s time for editors and publishers to pay attention to where their wired readers actually...
View Article‘No-hands’ ad sales challenge legacy media
Ever since legacy publishers and broadcasters got serious about selling interactive advertising, they have struggled with how to do it. Should veteran ad representatives be cross-trained to sell...
View ArticleMade in NYC: New business models for new media
Tattoos, tight jeans and three-day beards are “in,” while meaningless page clicks, paywalls and backfill banner ads are “out.” That's the state of the art among the hustling, bustling start-up...
View Article4 new media platforms demanding attention
As if the web, mobile and social media were not enough to worry about, four new digital platforms are emerging to challenge the legacy publishers and broadcasters struggling to preserve the audiences...
View ArticleThe LAT and U-T merger: Double trouble?
The pending purchase of the San Diego U-T by the Los Angeles Times represents a synergy not of strength but of tsoris. Tsoris, for the uninitiated, is the Yiddish word for trouble. And woe – unlike...
View ArticleWhy publishers had to partner with Facebook
The natural order of the universe was disrupted yesterday when BuzzFeed, NBC News, the New York Times and a number of other prominent media companies shockingly ceded to Facebook the marketing and...
View Article1 of 4 news start-ups flamed out
In 2009, David Boraks wrote an inspiring guest post here about the launch of his hyper-local news site in Davidson County, NC. Last week, he reluctantly shut it down, saying, “Alas, we haven’t turned...
View ArticleMobile moves to digital ad domination
Any day now, we will cross another technological tipping point, as the majority of digital advertising purchases moves to mobile devices from desktops and laptops. The shift could happen before the...
View ArticleWhat good is the Apple Watch, anyway?
The smartwatch market is so small that it only took a day or two for the Apple Watch to emerge as the biggest selling techno-timepiece in history. Now that it has been a while since the world’s most...
View ArticleRetail ad spending is speeding to mobile
There are few industries where mobile is having as big an impact as the disruption it is bringing to retailing. This should make publishers nervous. Very nervous. Though the rising popularity of...
View ArticleApple, Google and Facebook zero in on news
With Apple, Facebook and Google promoting powerful news-delivery platforms, the best days may be in the rearview mirror for the dedicated news apps produced by media companies and a host of...
View ArticleShould newspapers abandon digital?
Newspapers are so bad at digital publishing that they should just give up and focus on print. That’s the bracing thesis of a recently published mini-book from journalism professor H. Iris Chyi of the...
View ArticleAd-block surge challenges digital publishers
The number of consumers actively blocking digital advertising has grown dramatically in the last five years, posing a difficult and daunting challenge to publishers across the web. Now, new...
View ArticleTear down those paywalls!
The newspaper publishers who put paywalls on their websites in the last few years should declare victory and tear them down before the barriers become more trouble than they are worth. It’s true that...
View ArticleHow publishers can fight ad blocking
Publishers and advertisers have only themselves to blame for the revenue erosion caused by the rise of ad-blocking software. Now, it is up to them to solve the problem. That’s the bracing conclusion...
View ArticleSo long again, Chicago Daily News
On March 4, 1978, the presses fell silent for the last time at the Chicago Daily News, an iconic and crusading newspaper that was unable to adapt to changing times. The following article, which...
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