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The Newsonomics of news in a diversified world

Ken Doctor - Newsonomics - 27 Aug 2010

The Washington Post Company has been much in the news recently, but not because of its flagship paper. It's making news around its other holdings. It has shed Newsweek, staunching a $30 million annual bleed. More importantly to the company's finances, its Kaplan "subsidiary" has been much in the spotlight, under investigation by the feds, along with other for-profit educators, for fraud around student loans

Honolulu Advertiser vets create 'Metromix'-like Website

Editor & Publisher - 25 Aug 2010

Former Honolulu Advertiser staffers on Monday launched a Website patterned after the Metromix entertainment site at the former Gannett Co. daily.

Rupert's $1 million Republican gift: Why it matters

Ken Doctor - Newsonomics - 18 Aug 2010

Why has News Corp's million dollar gift to the Republican Governors Association gotten so much attention? I think there are a few top-of-mind reasons and one -- a little paper called the Wall Street Journal -- that forms the subtext here.

Nine questions on Patch's new push

Ken Doctor - Newsonomics - 17 Aug 2010

It's Patch day in the news news world, as AOL formally announces the expansion of its network of local sites. It's really a ratification of what we've been hearing, as CEO Tim Armstrong stakes his reborn company's future on professional news content creation, here, specifically local. The number bandied about: $50 million in investment in Patch, resulting in 500 local sites across 20 states by the end of the year.

McClatchy 2Q earnings plunge but ad slump eases

Michael Liedtke - The Associated Press - 30 Jul 2010

McClatchy Co.'s second-quarter earnings plunged as the newspaper publisher shouldered higher costs on its debt to buy more time to recover from a bedeviling ad slump.

On Gannett's plans to create five centralized design centers

Jonathon Berlin - Society for News Design - 27 Jul 2010

After Gannett recently announced plans to create five centralized centers to handle most of the design demands at its community newspapers, the Society for News Design responded with an open letter on the value of design.

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