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The Newsonomics of less-is-more, more or less
[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] It is a head-turner,...
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This Week in Review: A surprisingly sensible move online, two ugly falls, and...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] Another old-media stalwart goes online: This week’s biggest story...
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The shakeup at MediaNews: Why it could be the leadup to a massive newspaper...
Editor’s Note: Our regular contributor Martin Langeveld spent 13 years as a publisher in MediaNews Group. That gives him an inside perspective on the company’s bankruptcy filing and its leadership...
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The newsonomics of U.S. media concentration
The rise and potential fall of Rupert Murdoch is a hell of a story. It is, though, closer to the Guardian’s Simon Jenkins’ description Tuesday, “not a Berlin Wall moment, just daft hysteria.” Facing...
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The newsonomics of the next recession
Editor’s Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. If the current events of the...
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The newsonomics of Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo legacy challenge
Call it a Hail Marissa pass. Kudos to the Yahoo board for shaking up the conventional wisdom, going long, going young, and going Google. Against a history of failure, it has chosen success — the...
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This Week in Review: The new iPad mini and Surface tablets, and a BBC scandal...
Two entrants into the tablet market: We got a first look this week at two new devices that should play a big role in shaping the tablet market going forward. The first, the iPad mini, was unveiled at...
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The newsonomics of Tribune’s metro agony
Soon, the next act of the Tribune newspaper agonies will play out. That’s agonies, as in a Biblical passion play. The Tribune papers have endured a special kind of agony, the Hell of Zell, but really...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of Tribune’s detour
Is it a detour of some kind? Is it a deke? Or is it a Koch-around? The big question is why Tribune would go through the time, money, and bother to split the companies when it doesn’t want to be in the...
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The newsonomics of the print orphanage — Tribune’s and Time Inc.’s
Talk about spin. Two of America’s once-iconic publishers are about to be spun. Spun off, that is, from parent companies that have fallen out of love with print and in love with moving pictures. The...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of selling Cars.com
Sometimes, you see the train wreck coming. Tony Ridder, the last CEO of Knight Ridder, saw the classifieds pileup ahead and would talk about it in our company meetings by the mid-’90s: the replacement...
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