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The Newsonomics of the Kochs Rising — and Uprising
Related posts: The Tribune’s Metro Agony, The Koch Brothers and the Sale of the U.S. Top Metros, Rupert Murdoch’s Long Game First published at Nieman Journalism Lab It’s official. Charles and David...
View ArticleGannett Now a Broadcast Company, More or Less
Today, you’d rather be a broadcasting company than a newspaper company. For Gannett, the Belo purchase —$1.5 billion in cash (plus assuming debt of $715 million) for 20 largely geographically...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of the Tribune Detour
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab 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...
View ArticleThe 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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