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Seattle Times Co. renegotiates debt
Editor & Publisher - 06 Feb 2010
The Seattle Times Co. has renegotiated its debt, giving the publisher increased ability to continue publishing "high quality, independent journalism," as the company indicated in a letter updating its readers on its financial status.
Journos aren't helpless against market forces
Alan D. Mutter - Reflections of a Newsosaur - 05 Feb 2010
Without question, there never has been a bigger response to this blog than the one that greeted the piece the other day encouraging journalists to demand to be paid decently for their work.
Google News to publishers: Let's make love not war
Mark Glaser - Mediashift - 05 Feb 2010
In the view of some traditional media execs, Google is a digital vampire or a parasite or tech tapeworm using someone else's content to profit. As that rhetoric heated up in the past year, Google has responded not with equal amounts of invective but with entreaties to help publishers.
Monster's HotJobs deal shuts 200 papers out of Yahoo newspaper consortium
Jennifer Saba - Editor & Publisher - 04 Feb 2010
Monster Worldwide's agreed acquisition of Yahoo's recruitment platform HotJobs means as many as 200 papers will be shut out of of the Yahoo newspaper consortium (NPC).
Arthur and the Blue People
Ken Doctor - Content Bridges - 04 Feb 2010
As if the New York Times' Arthur Sulzberger and Janet Robinson didn't have enough headaches, trying to figure out how to fend off that other daily beast known as the Wall Street Journal. Until December, 2007, when Rupert Murdoch pulled off the coup of his lifetime, cajoling, wheedling and finally hard-lining just enough of the Bancroft family into selling the prize Journal to him, the Journal had been a national business daily -- not the Times' direct competition.
Newspaper Web site traffic slipped in Q4
Jennifer Saba - Editor & Publisher - 03 Feb 2010
Newspaper Web site traffic is falling month-over-month, according to new figures provided by the Newspaper Association of America. The association today published the latest Q4 data for newspaper Web sites provided by Nielsen Online. The number of unique users declined when comparing October (73.2 million uniques) to November (72.3 million uniques) to December (70.3 million uniques).
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13 years later, Herb Caen's voice is missed
Carl Nolte - The San Francisco Chronicle - 02 Feb 2010
Tomorrow is the first of February, an important day in the history of San Francisco. It will be 13 years exactly since Herb Caen died. Old San Franciscans revere Caen. A lot of new San Franciscans never heard of him. For the record, he was a newspaper columnist in this town for 58 years, longer than anybody. He was the uncrowned prince of San Francisco, a magic city of his own invention.
Gannett's 4Q improves as cost cuts offset ad woes
Michael Liedtke - The Associated Press - 02 Feb 2010
Gannett Co. posted its largest profit of the year in the fourth quarter as cost-cutting efforts were aided by a lessening decline in advertising sales. But shares of the biggest U.S. newspaper publisher tumbled after company executives didn't offer any hope for an upturn in newspaper advertising this year.
Associated Press strikes deal with Yahoo
Michael Liedtke - The Associated Press - 02 Feb 2010
The Associated Press has signed a licensing deal with Yahoo Inc. that gives the news cooperative a steady stream of revenue at a time less money is flowing in from newspapers and broadcasters.
Media General refinancing debt
Mark Fitzgerald - Editor & Publisher - 01 Feb 2010
Moody's Investors Service late Thursday assigned a relatively high, but still speculative-grade or "junk" credit rating, to Media General Inc.'s offering of $350 million in senior secured notes that will be used to pay down debt.
New York Times adds 1,100 Bay Area subscribers
Chris Rauber - Business Times - 01 Feb 2010
The New York Times has nabbed an extra 1,100 Bay Area subscribers after launching its San Francisco Bay Area section last fall, according to Jim Schachter, a senior Times executive.
MediaNews Group reportedly worried its phones will be shut off
Michael Roberts - Westward - 28 Jan 2010
In its reporting about the impending bankruptcy filing by Affiliated Media, the holding company of MediaNews Group, its owner, the Denver Post left the B-word out of the headline -- and its published version of an Associated Press story about the filing left out intriguing info included by other papers, including details of MediaNews boss Dean Singleton's salary.
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