Washington Post-ing a profit thanks to cost cuttingWho says newspapers are dying? Washington Post’s profits have quadrupled in the last quarter. Except, profits are due to cutting costs and staff, rather than an increase in newspaper sales.
Future of newspapers
Newspaper articles are too long
Reason #1,494,3428 newspapers are dying: their articles are too. damn. long. says Michael Kinsley. Not only could papers save money by printing fewer words, their readers might be a bit less bored, too.
Is Coles trying to kill newspapers?
Coles has now relegated newspapers to the corners of their stores and made it a massive pain-in-the-arse to buy them in the new-fangled “self-service” checkouts? Is the supermarket chain secretly trying to speed up the demise of printed news? asks Tim Burrows.
HuffPo and Politico prove the net does pay
While many newspapers are struggling, online news organisations HuffPo and Politico are reporting multimillion dollar revenue and new jobs. Can companies like Yahoo learn from them?
Peeling back the layers: inside The Onion
As newspapers close across the globe, satirical paper The Onion is bigger, busier and more amusing than ever. Editor Joe Randazzo spills the dirt on what it’s like to work in America’s Funniest Newsroom and how to get a job there.
Has Murdoch just saved the newspaper industry?
The newspaper industry is desperate for cash, and Microsoft — and its search engine Bing — has bucketloads of it to spend. Can newspapers save themselves by selling the tech giant exclusive rights to their content?
Alles Neu! A customised newspaper!
This week in Berlin, niiu has been delivering what it claims to be the world’s first personalised newspaper, writes Ben Gook.
Video of the Day: The future of News: an interview with Rupert
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch sits down with Sky News to discuss Google, paywalls, financial regulations and the future of newspapers. Watch out for his bagging of Mark Scott, public broadcasters and Barack Obama…
Why Murdoch wants to destroy the NY Times
News Corp’s Wall Street Journal is stepping-up its New York coverage, and it’s all part of Rupert Murdoch’s single-minded plan to strike a massive blow against the liberal world by buying-out or destroying the NYT, says Michael Wolff.
Caroline Overington drops some hints on Rupert’s paywall plans (and tangles with Annabel Crabb)
Margaret Simons reports live from the Media140 conference in Sydney, where journalist Caroline Overington pissed off News Ltd by talking about its paywall plans, had a crack at the ABC, and clashed with Annabel Crabb.
News International to drop freebies to airlines, hotels
In a move that strikes fear into the hearts of The Oz execs, News International in the UK, will stop distributing bulk copies of newspapers sold for a nominal amount to hotels and airlines, which give them to clients as complimentary offerings.
When a city loses its newspaper
When a newspaper goes bust — as they’re increasingly want to do these days — it isn’t just the writers and readers who are affected: government becomes less accountable and society becomes stupider.
Imagining life behind the pay-wall
The year is 2012 and the news is no longer free: Michael Wolff is in prison, Fox has renamed itself The Glenn Beck Channel, a NYT sub costs $7000-per-year, and a cultural divide has formed between the news-haves and news-have-nots…
The upside to the newspaper downturn
The plummeting circulation figures of US newspapers isn’t all bad news: the environment, journalistic standards and the internet may all reap the benefits. The Atlantic Wire rounds up the media pundits who still view the news-stand as half-full.
NYT publisher: Why print media is like the Titanic
When the publisher of one of the world’s most esteemed newspapers compares print media to the Titanic, it’s time to panic. So why is the industry like the ship? Because even if the Titanic had docked safely, it was still doomed: 12 years earlier, the airplane was invented. Ouch.
newspaper death watch Newspapers enter their death spiral
The circulation figures for the top 25 newspapers in the US have just been released, and they’re horrifying, says Megan McArdle. This isn’t just the end of the newspaper as we know it — it’s the end of the newspaper full stop.
Tech kings overthrow the media mogul empire
The media empire is dead. Tech moguls like Apple’s Steve Jobs of Apple and Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page now control the distribution of news, and the era of old-school moguls like Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch has come to an end.
Le Monde cuts the crap: buy our paper or we can’t survive
In what is surely a landmark in journalism, international paper Le Monde Diplomatique has made a direct and blunt appeal to its readers: buy our paper more regularly or take out a subscription, or we’ll go broke.
Keith Murdoch speaks from beyond the grave
Every man (and his dog) may be weighing in on the future of the news, but this is something else: Sir Keith Murdoch speak in 1937 on the convergence of media, with words that foreshadow the current debate over newspapers and the internet.
Free Evening Standard: paywall waters muddied
Newspaper publishers everywhere will be avidly watching the London Evening Standard’s decision to drop its print paywall. Will free newspapers attract more advertisers?
Google CEO: We have a “moral responsibility” to help newspapers
Regardless of what newspaper publishers may think, Google isn’t out to get them. In fact, it wants to to help, says the search giant’s CEO Eric Schmidt — just don’t expect any handouts.
London Evening Standard goes free
As ad revenue falls, most newspapers are busy trying to suck more money from their readers. But the Evening Standard is trying a different tack: giving away the paper for free.
Trading Post‘s last days a sign of things to come
The Trading Post will end its print run at the end of this month — the internet simply does classified ads better. But while advertising can now exist happily without any editorial content, can journalism survive without the ads?
Does Fairfax need a 67-year-old grocer at the helm?
Roger Corbett is poised to become Chairman of Fairfax. Does he honestly believe he is the best person to steer Australia’s venerable newspaper publisher through the most challenging period in its history?
Travelling through Rural Press country
Sometimes you can see the nature of organisations more clearly from the periphery than from the heart — although, of course, rural NSW is the heart of the old, pre-Fairfax Rural Press. And unfortunately, the regional papers aren’t looking too crash hot.
