Media

The long-awaited, much-delayed digital pay scheme at the New York Times should work just fine, but that doesn’t mean it can be replicated successfully in other markets. Accordingly, other publishers should proceed with caution.After spending nearly 1...

The long-awaited, much-delayed digital pay scheme at the New York Times should work just fine, but that doesn’t mean it can be replicated successfully in other markets. Accordingly, other publishers should proceed with caution.After spending nearly 1...

While ad sales rose in every other mass medium in 2010, newspaper revenues plunged to the lowest point since 1985, falling to nearly half of the all-time high of $49.4 billion achieved just five years earlier.Combined print and online sales at newspape...

While ad sales rose in every other mass medium in 2010, newspaper revenues plunged to the lowest point since 1985, falling to nearly half of the all-time high of $49.4 billion achieved just five years earlier.Combined print and online sales at newspape...

They (including me) said it couldn’t be done, but the Augusta Chronicle put up a pay wall without losing traffic.In fact, page views rose a nifty 5% in the three months since the Georgia newspaper installed a metered system similar to the one just im...

They (including me) said it couldn’t be done, but the Augusta Chronicle put up a pay wall without losing traffic.In fact, page views rose a nifty 5% in the three months since the Georgia newspaper installed a metered system similar to the one just im...

The back-to-back resignations this week of two top National Public Radio executives are dramatic proof that federal funding is unhealthy for public broadcasters because it persistently puts them in the crossfire of national politics.NPR boss Vivian Sch...

The back-to-back resignations this week of two top National Public Radio executives are dramatic proof that federal funding is unhealthy for public broadcasters because it persistently puts them in the crossfire of national politics.NPR boss Vivian Sch...

Nowhere have newspapers suffered as mightily in the last five years as in the meltdown in classified advertising, where nearly $14 billion in highly profitable revenues were vaporized between 2005 and 2010.The classified ad crash, of course, resulted f...

Nowhere have newspapers suffered as mightily in the last five years as in the meltdown in classified advertising, where nearly $14 billion in highly profitable revenues were vaporized between 2005 and 2010.The classified ad crash, of course, resulted f...

Nowhere have newspapers suffered as mightily in the last five years as in the meltdown in classified advertising, where nearly $14 billion in highly profitable revenues were vaporized between 2005 and 2010.The classified ad crash, of course, resulted f...

"It's fun being the publisher when things are going well," squeaked the young man who stumbled awkwardly to the top of a battered desk in the unusually silent newsroom of the Chicago Daily News. "But it's no fun today."Swallowing a nervous giggle, Marshall Field V cleared his throat and read the assembled staff the short,...