The Newsonomics of John Henry Buying the Boston Globe
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab It was a big auction — on paper. Literally. The storied Boston Globe, the 141-year-old Globe that has won 21 Pulitzers and dominated its region’s reporting for...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Jeff Bezos Buying the Washington Post
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab It is a thunderbolt. If not tossed down from Mt. Olympus, it is thrown from Mt. Amazon, not far from Washington’s beatific Olympic Mountains. Jeff Bezos’s...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Jeff Bezos’ (and Warren Buffett’s) “Runway”
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab Let’s consider Jeff Bezos’ runway. “Runway” was one of the benefits he recently said his purchase of The Washington Post would give the institution — “runway”...
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The Newsonomics of Selling More Stuff
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab It’s a certified trend: Thanks to digital media, we’re consuming more stuff. This week, we saw the fairly astounding news that mobile minutes are doubling the...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of 10 Ways We’ll Judge 2014
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab At the World Publishing Expo held in Berlin this week, two CEOs of major international news companies — Andrew Miller of The Guardian and Mathias Döpfner of...
View ArticleRussia Beyond the Headlines
Russia Beyond the Headlines, By Vsevolod Pulya October,. 2013 — On a recent WAN-IFRA event you’ve described the key trends news publishers can expect to see going into 2014. If we go on a larger scale...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Outrageous Confidence
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab Who expected a virtual coming-out party for the newspaper industry in late 2013? In the past several weeks, we’ve seen new newspaper owners proudly raising...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Split ‘Ems —& Then There Was Gannett
Follow Newsonomics on Twitter @kdoctor Companion post: Newsonomics: Tribune’s Latest Lease on Life First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab The Journal Communications/E.W. Scripps merger...
View ArticleThe Envelopes Open on the Sale of Digital First Media Newspapers
Valentine’s Day may be coming early for Digital First Media this week. DFM’s board and UBS, its broker, open the envelopes, looking for affection. It’s an uneasy love-me/love-me-not time, newspapers’...
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Turns Out Warren Buffett Won’t Be The Billionaire Who Saves Newspapers Either
By JOSHUA BENTON AND KEN DOCTOR Circa 2012, one of the most popular lines among American newspaper journalists went something like this: “Newspapers can’t be that terrible of a business if Warren...
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