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Publishers’ lack of strategic focus on licensing and syndication today is matched by nearly equal indifference from software developers, entrepreneurs, and investors.…
How much can news agencies like the AP control their stories on the internet? The New York Times has just weighed in on a critical case that will help determine that.
Like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, the New York Times is having to run faster and faster to try to fill the gap left by declining advertising revenue, but even a rapidly growing subscription base doesn’t seem to be accomplishing that.
Research from the Newspaper Association of America shows that most newspapers with paywalls are using a metered model, and free digital access for print subscribers is not a given.
The Associated Press board didn’t go far afield to hire the president and CEO who will succeed Tom Curley this summer. Gary Pruitt is as in…
McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s fourth quarter operating earnings beat analysts’ predictions, while the newspaper chain also reported an ove…
A group of eight newspaper publishers — Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst, MediaNews Gr…
By now, investors ought to be used to The McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s consistent drift of revenue and net income declines since it retur…
Even in the close-mouthed world of hedge fund investment, Randall Smith, the principal of Alden Global Capital, gives new meaning to the eup…
While the advertising recovery continues to hold on despite remaining economic weakness, the newspaper industry appears to be in danger of f…
McClatchy (NYSE: MNI), the owner of the Miami Herald among other top newspapers, will soon offer its own daily deals in its local markets. S…
Social commerce involves businesses using online collaborative tools — social networks, real-time feeds and user-generated contributions, for example — in order to sell products and services to consumers.
Although the general ad market has appeared to turnaround, helping newspapers publishers arrest the declines of the past few years, The McCl…
» Still in the middle of a long turnaround amid constant rumors that parent News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). wants to sell it off, MySpace…
In a preview of next month’s Q4 earnings report, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) said that it has been able to reduce the advertising decl…
An uneven economic recovery, coupled with continued tough times in its California and Florida markets, prevented The McClatchy Company (NYSE…
Several months after McClatchy partnered with Groupon to promote the daily deal service in many of its local markets, Media General (NYSE: M…
» To promote the launch of its Windows 7 Phone, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is running an ad campaign intended to aim for “average fol…
Verve Wireless, which is helping hundreds of media companies worldwide create and monetize news applications for smartphones, said it has ra…
Head to a major local newspaper site and chances are you’ll see an ad for a group-buying site like Groupon or LivingSocial. But, while some…
Revenue at McClatchy (NYSE: MNI), the major newspaper publisher, keeps shrinking — but at a slower rate — as the ad market gets stronger.…
McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Chairman and CEO Gary Pruitt has emphasized the newspaper publisher’s preference for ad support over paywalls, so affi…
For the fourth consecutive period, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) has been able to maintain profitability on an adjusted basis, as revenu…
Over the past six months, newspaper earnings results have been relatively positive as Gannett (NYSE: GCI), the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT…
Over the past few months, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company chairman and CEO Gary Pruitt has taken a lot of opportunities to assert his belief i…
Taking the podium during day two of Borrell Associates’ Local Online Advertising Conference, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) chairman and CEO Gary Pru…
Buzzmachine’s Jeff Jarvis opened Borrell Associates’ Local Online Advertising Conference with an extensive report about the revenue possibil…
After an anemic Q3 for The McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s online advertising revenues, that segment showed a lot more strength in the publi…
Newspaper stocks got an early Christmas present in the form of a positive note from Wells Fargo analyst John Janedis, who upgraded Gannett (…
After posting an online revenue decline of 2.9 percent in Q2, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) was able to reverse that trajectory to see digital revs…
As many newspapers that were able to swing to profit in Q2 found, you can cost cut your way to black ink. McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) repeated tha…
The Los Angeles Times-*Washington Post* News Service, a syndication service formed back in 1962 with more than 600 clients worldwide, is bei…
The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) has decided to sign up all its 30 newspapers to the Associated Press Mobile news network, the companies sa…
While many observers argue that recent profit swings for Gannett (NYSE: GCI), McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) and other newspaper publishers will be s…
A quick glance at the net income of four Q2 earnings releases from newspaper publishers Gannett (NYSE: GCI), The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MN…
The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) saw profits almost double in Q2 to $42.0 million ($0.50 cents per share) though it clearly isn’t out of th…
After days after receiving another NYSE delisting notice, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) said its Q1 loss widened to $37.7 million ($0.45…
As if newspaper companies don’t have enough problems, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) informed investors that it could be delisted from from the NYSE…
— LAT’s large front page ad draws protests from editorial staff: About 100 staffers at the struggling Tribune Company paper have petitioned…
Here we go again. Another major content creator is threatening to sue internet companies after years of having them nip at its heels by repu…
Organized labor dominates the ranks of newspaper publishing like no other industry, except for perhaps Detroit’s automakers. And like the ca…
McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Newspapers, the third- largest newspaper chain in U.S., has announced that it will go deep and dramatic with its cuts:…
Several media companies reported earnings this week and most reports pointed to a weaker-than-expected digital media industry, but relative…
Following another dismal earnings report, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) CEO and Chairman Gary Pruitt began by essentially pinning the co…
Citing a “horrible economy” amid newspapers’ “transitional period,” The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) swung to a net loss of $21.7 million…
— AH Belo to cut 500 jobs: And by the way, the Dallas Morning News publisher won’t be covering reporters’ parking fees in downtown Dallas a…
— Boston Globe cutting 12 percent of the newsroom: The NYTCo-owned paper is offering buyouts to all of its newsroom staff as it seeks to cu…
Newspapers in general and cable company Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) come out mostly negative in credit-rating agency Fitch’s first Media & E…
— Journal Comm online revs fall 5 percent: A few days after the Milwaukee company has laid off 39 workers (17 cut at its newspaper), Journa…
The McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s stock ended down again on Thursday, finishing at $1.05. That’s a 30 percent decline and a new low for th…
— McClatchy online revs up 10.6 percent: The newspaper publisher’s November revenues showed more of the usual pain, as total revenues were…
Taking the podium from AH Belo’s Robert Decherd, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company Chairman and CEO Gary Pruitt opened his presentation at the U…
— Gannett swings the big ax, slashing 1,400 jobs this week: Jim Hopkins, the former Gannett (NYSE: GCI) chronicling the company’s travails,…
As the newspaper industry’s prospects darken, and rounds of buyouts and layoffs have left little room for more cuts, The McClatchy Company (…
— USAT cuts 20 newsroom jobs: While Gannett’s flagship has been spared much of the company’s heavy job cuts of the past few months, USA Tod…
— 20 take buyouts at Seattle Times: With layoffs showing no sign of stopping in the ailing newspaper industry, 20 Seattle Times staffers ha…
The real estate downturn has had a wider effect on The McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s ad revenues apart from just lower classified dollars…
The effects of the recession appear to have hit most sectors of the economy suddenly these past few weeks, but it’s something The McClatchy…
The NYT weighs in on newspapers’ struggles amid the online ad slowdown and surveys a number of different strategies being employed. McClatch…
This is a rough time if for any company that’s debt dependent, and few industries are in more desperate need of restructuring there than ail…
The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI), like just about every other newspaper publisher, has found itself even more squeezed by the current econo…
A couple dispatches from the world of badly ailing newspaper publishers…
— The New York Sun, the highbrow conservative daily in New York…
McClatchy (NYSE: MNI), whose shares have fallen from around $21 to about $3 in the last year, has announced its second big job elimination…
— AP: Identifying one more nail in the AP’s heart, BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis notices that New Jersey
— Media6°: *NYTCo* and About.com exec Andrew Pancer has been hired as Media6°’s COO. In January, he had moved from About.com as COO to NY…
The McClatchy Co (NYSE: MNI). CEO Gary Pruitt has stepped down from four trusts owned by the McClatchy family — leading to speculation that…
— McClatchy: North Carolina papers The News & Observer of Raleigh, and The Charlotte Observer are asking hundreds of staffers to accept buy…
— Gannett: Another ugly month from Gannett (NYSE: GCI), which says revenue fell 12.3 percent in July, compared to 2007. Publishing ad revs…
— AP: As expected, some newspapers are pulling out following the much-discussed rate changes for the co-op. At the same time, even papers g…
When newspaper companies released their quarterly earnings for the past two years, the news tended to follow this arc: circ, print ad revenu…
It’s only slightly less worse than the layoff news that’s been plaguing the newspaper industry lately: The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) is…
Online media buying and planning platform operator Centro is going to announce it has bought once-storied local newspaper online rep firm Re…
— Sun-Times Media Group: The Tribune Company’s Chicago rival is outsourcing its print and online classified ad sales to New York-based Clas…
From our we-kill-ourselves-so-you-don’t-have-to department, the mind-numbing details of some recently filed 10-Qs:
— McClatchy: Certain Mc…
The McClatchy Company’s (NYSE: MNI) financial struggles only seemed to deepen in Q2, as Gary Pruitt, the publisher’s chairman and CEO, pinne…
Gannett (NYSE: GCI), which has a big budget to do digital M&As, is buying out the rest of local sales info site ShopLocal, from the other pa…
In the aftermath of McClatchy’s big layoff announcement, attention naturally turns to top management, and its culpability for the state of a…
Citing a “difficult advertising market” newspaper publisher McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) says it will eliminate about 1,400 positions through volun…
— Gannett: Blaming the dismal ad market, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) has two pieces of bad news for investors: one, it write down the value of its…
— NYT: Internet ad revenues for the New York Times Co.’s (NYSE: NYT) News Media Group grew 25.6 percent as both display and classified rema…
— NYT: Voluntary buyouts weren’t enough to stave off layoffs in the NYT newsroom. In a staff memo posted on Romensko, NYT Editor Bill Kelle…
Continuing a trend… McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) has announced Q1 revenue of $488.3 million, a 13.8 percent decline from $566.6 million. Net inco…
— AP: Newspaper editors let loose a barrage of criticism for the new Associated Press rate structure after an appearance by AP President an…
— NYTCo: During a month where its now settled battle with activist shareholders heated up over online investments, internet ad revenues for…
When it comes to behavioral targeting, the prevailing ethos among marketers and ad agencies is “what consumers don’t know, won’t bother them…
McClatchy has announced another large writedown, having already taken a $1.37 billion charge for Q3… this time it’s for $1.39 billion in g…
Some fresh data for the first month of the year from a handful of newspapers… Note that two of them, Media General (NYSE: MEG) and Gannett…
Following up on this morning’s pre-market earnings report, Gary Pruitt, The McClatchy Company’s (NYSE: MNI) chairman, president and CEO, out…
The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) showed some positive signs as it continues to struggle with the circulation and ad woes that plague the ne…
— Chicago Tribune: The Tribune Company-owned paper is ceasing weekday print classifieds as it seeks to cut costs and better integrate its w…
Belo: The Dallas-based media company’s board of directors has approved the spin-off of Belo’s (NYSE: BLC) TV and newspaper units into separa…
— Despite Woes, McClatchy Banks on Newspapers: A deepish look at McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) including how/why McClatchy chairman and CEO Gary Pr…
McClatchy’s (NYSE: MNI) struggles continued into November, as even interactive advertising revenues were down. Meanwhile, Journal Communicat…
Declining circulation, accounting adjustments from last year’s Knight Ridder purchase and a soft real estate market have combined to bring d…
While the newspaper industry has been struggling with print ad revenues, for most, online ad growth has tended to offer some consolation. Bu…
The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) continues to feel the negative impact of its 2006 Knight Ridder acquisition, announcing today that is writ…
Do the rough results from several newspaper publishers in the past quarter speak for themselves, or is there a light at the end of the tunne…
Five of the largest U.S. newspaper chains are considering a new national ad network that could both overlap and compete with the Yahoo (NSDQ…
The Sacramento Bee will stop charging the $499 annual subscription for access to its state government news site, Capitol Alert, and will mov…
Early last month, San Jose Mercury News’ executive editor Carole Leigh Hutton addressed the Silicon Valley daily paper’s 200 staffers to inf…
The McClatchy Company reported Q3 income of $23.5 million, sharply lower than last year’s $52.6 million. Revenue slipped 9.2 percent to $540…
Instead of offering a helping hand to newspapers suffering from declining readership and ad revenues, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Conso…
Newspaper advertising numbers told a familiar story of continued struggle in August. While McClatchy (NYSE: MNI), Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE…
The Real Cities Network, a collection of local online news sites, has added the Denver-based Media News Group’s 51 newspaper websites. This…
After considering a sell-off in June, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) has decided to retain its 14.4 percent ownership stake in online job…
A series of articles in E&P today offered a range of the newspaper industry’s health – and the prognosis went from terrible, with a brief re…
A fuller picture of the newspaper slump will be revealed this week, as Gannett releases its Q2 report today, with Dow Jones and McClatchy re…
Earlier in the week, shares of McClatchy rose 7 percent in value for no apparent reason. Now Citadel Investment Group, a hedge fund run by K…
Taking the podium Wednesday afternoon at the Newspaper Association of America’s Mid-Year Review, Matt Ferguson, CareerBuilder’s CEO, didn’t…
While online advertising in general may be showing signs of slowing, the case appears to be the opposite when focusing specifically on local…
It’s not as big as last week’s short-lived rumor about a merger with Yahoo, but Microsoft has in fact purchased a minority equity stake in j…
McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) reported that 1Q earnings from continuing operations dropped to $14.5 million, or 18 cents per share, compared to $21.…
Following up this morning’s agreement among the Yahoo newspaper consortium’s expanded services – graphic ads, content distribution, ad sales…
Yahoo and the newspaper consortium announced a significant expansion of their deal — and new member McClatchy, as expected after reports la…
The continued dance of alliances in the newspaper industry: McClatchy has abandoned a nascent national online ad partnership with Tribune an…
The three big newspaper companies Gannett, Tribune and McClatchy have a history of working together in the online arena (well, Knight Ridder…
We missed this from earlier this month: McClatchy is not just disposing off properties, but has bought two very small ones: Its chain newspa…
The Star Tribune, the flagship newspaper of the McClatchy, is being sold to a private equity firm Avista Capital Partners for $530 million.…
The McClatchy Company (MNI), like other newspaper publishers, continued to reap the benefits of its investment in online business during the…
Whenever people think that things can get any worse for newspaper publishers, along comes more proof that it indeed can. The fall Fas-Fax re…
As readers of paidContent.org knew before the press release, former Knight Ridder digital exec Hilary Schneider is joining Yahoo. Some detai…
Brain drain … McClatchy Interactive hopes to save money by consolidating the San Jose operation that was part of the Knight Ridder acquisi…
The first question that comes to mind reading Katherine Seelye’s account of the newspaper version of “Who Killed Cock Robin” is how many oth…
A deal between Gannett, McClatchy, and Tribune has been reached, on the fate of the jointly-owned online/classifieds businesses: Gannett and…
As we noted yesterday, McClatchy skipped details on internet revenues in its oifficial release but a reading of the analysts’ call transcrip…
The McClatchy Co. (MNI) turned in 2Q06 earnings of $44.1 million, or 94 cents per share, — flat year over year but ahead of the average 88-…
McClatchy’s sale of the Contra Costa Times and the San Jose Mercury News is still pending federal approval but would-be owner MediaNews is a…
Knight Ridder has left the building … Enter McClatchy, which has shown an ability to integrate acquisitions but now faces the challenge of…
Yep, it’s done…over. McClatchy has agreed to sell The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to the paper’s former publisher Richard Connor……
The speculation about the future of CareerBuilder has been rampant, with Ken Doctor writing last month on his blog that MediaNews might be b…
The ordeal, at least the sale part, is almost over: McClatchy will sell five newspapers owned by the company it bought, Knight Ridder, for a…
As we’ve mentioned before, most coverage of the sale prospects for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News focused on the…
So the deal is done, for the formerly Knight-Ridder-owned Philadelphia area newspapers Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News , a…
MediaNews CEO William Dean Singleton doesn’t own the San Jose Mercury News yet but he has big plans for its future as an example of how prin…
Technically, McClatchy doesn’t yet own any KR papers so what it has done is agree to sell four papers to MediaNews in a complicated $1 billi…
Contra Costa Times Editor Chris Lopez is reporting in his blog that the sale of at least some of the Knight Ridder papers McClatchy wants to…
(via Peter) An interview with Chris Hendricks, McClatchy’s VP of interactive media. He dispells rumors that his company wants to disband the…
Updated: Bids were due today for the 12 Knight Ridder papers being sold by McClatchy as part its pending acquisition of the larger company,…
A sampling in the wake of news that McClatchy will buy Knight Ridder, then sell a dozen dailies:
John Blossom: “… for the time being McCla…
Actually, newsapaper analyst John Morton downright dislikes the idea, telling Reuters: “This thing is being sold at a fire-sale price. This…
Knight Ridder’s one-third share of CareerBuilder.com may not wind up with McClatchy; partners Gannett and Tribune have first refusal on a sa…
The worst-kept secret in months is officially out in the open … Knight Ridder’s board has agreed to sell to The McClatchy Company for cas…
Work in progress.The Knight Ridder board has accepted a $4.5 billion cash/stock offer from the McClatchy Company, according to a report from…
Knight Ridder directors will meet in New York Sunday to review bids for the company; the board has to decide whether the company should be s…
The results will soon be clear in the Knight Ridder bidding saga: WSJ reports that newspaper company McClatchy Co. appeared to be a lead run…
Some stories following the continuing Knight Ridder bid saga:
— Knight Ridder investors brace for word on bids: The bid acceptance will be…
Bids are due Thursday and, following a series of meetings with prospective buyers, the list of bidders for Knight Ridder is down to three fo…
That’s according to an SEC filing, picked up by PE Week Wire. Tribe Networks, which has investment from some big newspaper groups, has raise…
The Newspaper Guild has a major ally in its efforts to be taken seriously by Knight Ridder as a suitor for nine unionized papers: the Yucaip…
By changing the bylaws, Knight Ridder has managed to postpone indefinitely the annual meeting initially scheduled for Apr. 18 — meaning the…
Updated, read below: Newspaper giant Knight Ridder reported lower Q4 profits: $83.3 million compared to $107.2 million in the year-ago quart…
Anyone else feeling whipsawed by some of the reports about Knight Ridder’s search for financial salvation? Last week it was a “rosy” view fr…
Doesn’t look like we’re going to get a quick answer about Knight Ridder’s fate; the next round of bids may not be until late February.
— K…
We’ve talked about this before — newspapers may be the highest profit-margin, continuously successful companies to come under fire in a mar…
Knight Ridder’s bid presentations are happening today, and three groups have emerged, this story says.
— First is Thomas H. Lee Partners L…
The conversation with an investment analyst earlier today inevitably turned to Knight Ridder, the biggest question mark in the newspaper ind…
Trio Weighs KR Bid: Three private equity firms are considering a joint bid for Knight Ridder, according to the Walll Street Journal. The Bla…
For private-equity firms exploring the acquisition of Knight Ridder, the question isn’t where the newspaper company is headed for the long-t…
When Private Capital Management, the major newspaper investor agitating for the sale of Knight Ridder, was acquired by Legg Mason in 2001, t…
Am I the only one getting tired of the constant refrain that the internet is responsible for all of the newspaper industry’s woes? I’ve been…
Lauren Rich Fine, analyst, Merrill Lynch: Fine is cautious and warns that “no deal could hurt the sector’s valuation.” She sees a dearth of…
Facing immense pressure from two large institutional shareholders, Knight Ridder’s board didn’t put the company on the block today but took…
The largest shareholder in Knight Ridder is turning up the pressure on the newspaper publisher, saying in a regulatory filing Thursday that…
Two more major shareholders of newspaper giant Knight Ridder want the company to be put up for sale, two days after the largest shareholder…
Updated below: If Knight Ridder follows the call of a major shareholder and goes on the block, who are the likely buyers. Merrill Lynch anal…
Updated below: This will send tremors throughout the industry: newspaper giant Knight Ridder’s largest shareholder, Florida money-management…
Updated to include conference call: Looking only at earnings per share, Knight Ridder would seem to have a pretty good 3Q05 with earnings of…
Updated at 7:30 p.m. eastern: Stung by declining ad rates, the New York Times will slash its workforce by 4 percent during the next three qu…
We’ve recently launched a new monthly media executive interview series. It is being brought in association with The Jordan, Edmiston Group.…
The continued growth and expansion of the Knight Ridder’s online and other print businesses is “encouraging,” Knight Ridder Chairman and CEO…
According to an e-mail alert send out by Classified Intelligence: As of today, all self-placed, private-party, online-only merchandise ads a…
The Civil War-era archives of The Philadelphia Inquirer will be made publicly available this fall following a showcase digitization project…
Q2 revenue for Knight Ridder Digital rose nearly 51 percent to $29 million from $19.3 million in the same period a year earlier. It also pos…
CityXpress, a provider of technology for online newspaper auctions, has obtained a $2 million equity investment from Knight Ridder.
The corp…
