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Gannett Misses Earnings On Special Charges, Digital Revenue Up

by Jeff Roberts on Jan 30, 2012 • No Comments

Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. posted lower than expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 after incurring special charges related to workforce restructuring and asset write-downs. A report also showed that its newspaper empire continues to struggle but that its digital business is up 11 percent for the year.

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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 25, 2012

by MediaShift on Jan 25, 2012 • No Comments

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

1. Users can't opt out of Google's new privacy changes (Washington Post)

2. Facebook plays instant feedback of State Of The Union (All Facebook)

3. Can...

MediaMemo / Publishers

Gannett Buys Big Lead Sports Owner Fantasy Sports Ventures

by Peter Kafka on Jan 24, 2012 • No Comments

Gannett has bought Fantasy Sports Ventures, a Web sports network best known for its Big Lead Sports site. Gannett invested in Fantasy Sports back in 2008.

PaidContent.org / Publishers

USA Today Becomes Latest Publisher To Embrace Kindle Fire With Custom App

by Tom Krazit on Jan 3, 2012 • No Comments

Amazon’s Kindle Fire continues to draw interest from publishing companies, including ones who have already embraced Android tablets. This time, USA Today has decided to launch a specialized app for the Kindle Fire despite having already developed an Android tablet application.

Nieman Journalism Lab / Publishers

This Week in Review: Institutions and news innovation, and papers’ paywall experiments roll on

by Mark Coddington on Dec 9, 2011 • No Comments

Plus: A legal test of 'Are bloggers journalists?', Facebook's Timeline and Subscribe, and the rest of the week's future-of-news reading.

Nieman Journalism Lab / Publishers

Your 2011 holiday gift guide, brought to you by the news

by Andrew Phelps on Dec 7, 2011 • No Comments

If you want to save journalism, you might turn to journalism this year for all your Christmas shopping. This weekend at NewsFoo, an O'Reilly "un-conference" for about 170 journalists and tech disrupters, the tech writer Mónica Guzmán posed a question: "Can't we [news organizations] sell anything besides articles?" Yes, it turns out, and there are...

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Major Newspaper Publishers Band Together On Social Shopping Portal

by David Kaplan on Nov 17, 2011 • No Comments

A group of eight newspaper publishers—Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst, MediaNews Group, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI), and The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO)—have formed a joint venture to promote their individual daily deals efforts.

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Mobile Ad Firm 4INFO Names Tim Jenkins CEO. Zaw Thet Now ‘Chief Evangelist’

by Ingrid Lunden on Nov 11, 2011 • No Comments

So a changing of the guard at mobile ad company 4INFO, which announced a funding round of $14 million just last month: Zaw Thet, the company’s outspoken founder, has left his role as the CEO and is getting replaced by Tim Jenkins, who has worked for a number of tech companies, including...

PaidContent.org / Publishers

The Morning Lowdown 11-08-11

by David Kaplan on Nov 8, 2011 • No Comments

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:

» NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won’t Be Replaced; (paidContent; paidContent)

» New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Sues HuffPo Over Mommy Issues (paidContent)

» News of the World hired investigators to spy on hacking victims’ lawyers (

Nieman Journalism Lab / Publishers

The path of disruption: Did Newspaper Next succeed in transforming newspapers?

by Justin Ellis on Oct 27, 2011 • No Comments

In any good Hollywood summer blockbuster, there comes a point where someone, usually in a lab coat, warns of a coming disaster for humanity and the need for one last best hope to avoid annihilation. For newspapers that moment arguably came in the fall of 2006, when the American Press Institute published Newspaper Next, a...

Nieman Journalism Lab / Publishers

The newsonomics of Piano Media

by Ken Doctor on Oct 20, 2011 • No Comments

At this inflection point, it's worth taking a longer look at one little newsstand that has been in business for a long time — since May! — and see what we can learn from its experience. That newsstand is Piano Media, the little 300,000-euro-funded, 10-person start-up, in Slovakia. Slovakia? Yes, the small (5 million people)...

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Ex-Gannett Reporter Shreds Publisher Over Dubow’s $37 Million Parting Gift

by David Kaplan on Oct 11, 2011 • No Comments

It may not be sporting to compare other CEOs to Steve Jobs on a lot of levels but corporate pay and performance is fair game. With that as a measure, the $37 million severance package for Craig Dubow, who resigned as CEO of Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Friday with a debilitating back problem, looks...

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Gannett Misses Earnings On Special Charges, Digital Revenue Up

Daily Must Reads, Jan. 25, 2012

Gannett Buys Big Lead Sports Owner Fantasy Sports Ventures

USA Today Becomes Latest Publisher To Embrace Kindle Fire With Custom App

Your 2011 holiday gift guide, brought to you by the news

Mobile Ad Firm 4INFO Names Tim Jenkins CEO. Zaw Thet Now ‘Chief Evangelist’

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