Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune (aka "The Troika") have now weighed in on the controversy generated by the revelation that they are working on a national ad network that will compete with a national ad network being created by Yahoo! and…
There's been more industry feedback on the "Open Network" for national advertising that Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune (GMT) have proposed to launch for the newspaper industry. The first question is: Who leaked it to reporter Julia Angwin and why? There…
Today's Wall Street Journal reports that Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune (GMT) are shaping an "open network" to sell national online advertising, possibly replacing McClatchy's Real Cities. The article says that network members are committing around 10 percent of their banner…
Following up on yesterday's post about merging online and print newsrooms, here is an interesting piece from newspaper industry expert and Editor and Publisher columnist Steve Outing. He warns that strategies in integrating online and print news operations should even…
ShopLocal, the sales aggregator from Tribune, Gannett and McClatchy, is normally aimed at middle-aged women coupon-cutters. But in a bid to extend its audience, and get a little buzz, a couple of young Turks at the company have created a…
The Kelsey Group's basic business has always been about the impact of new technologies on local media companies and small businesses. It is one thing to discuss this in the abstract and something else to read in The New York…
A few interesting developments have come out of the newspaper world over the past few weeks. As we reported last week, The Wall Street Journal offered the print paper and online access for free all day yesterday. The paper has…
The Washington Post reports that Google's initial program to sell remnant newspaper ad inventory has been a considerable success thus far, and that it will expand the program. This will be a key ingredient in Google's overall plan to be…
Editor and Publisher Senior Editor Joe Strupp lists the top newspaper industry events of the past year. In related news, Scarborough Research did a relatively small sample study that shows online newspaper readers are more likely than the average Internet…
Online recruitment spending has surpassed print recruitment spending for the first time, according to my friends and former colleagues at Borrell Associates. The line was crossed in 4Q 2006 (now), and online now accounts for US$5.9 billion, while print accounts…
If newspapers are to grow, they're going to have to leverage their local, regional and national credibility to reach into advertiser segments where they don't have much of a presence today. This means B2B and SME. But somewhere it is…
Media General, the publisher of The Tampa Tribune, Richmond Times-Dispatch and Winston-Salem Journal, in addition to 22 community dailies, is the eighth newspaper company to join Yahoo!'s HotJobs consortium. With the addition of MG's 25 papers, the consortium's roster now…
