Commiting 'Obiticide': Newspapers Burying Celebs, Average Joes Before Their Time
When The Denver Post referred to the “late” C.W. McCall, it didn’t make just an embarrassing mistake — the singer with the Citizens Band AM-radio era hit Convoy is living just 190 miles away in Ouray, Colorado — the paper became part of an unusual spike in premature burials by newspapers.
Q&A: INMA's Earl Wilkinson
INMA’s always-provocative executive director, Earl J. Wilkinson, tells E&P that newspapers have weakened their greatest strength: “Newspaper brands aren’t anywhere near as strong as publishers think because they haven’t invested anything in building them.”
Newspapers on The Street: Media General
E&P's monthly look at a newspaper stock. This month: Media General.
Online Payola? Rocking the ASCAP Model
Exploring a new ecosystem of news distribution, based in part upon how performing rights organizations make sure that songwriters get paid for their work.
Content Management System Seeks to Help Papers Bulk up on High School Sports Coverage
At Dorf Media, Gary Dorfman, the founder’s son and company president, sees an opportunity to offer his new Sports Gathering CMS industry-wide because other solutions in his view aren’t geared to the peculiarities of prep sports. It’s been a long development process: six months of talks to be sure he had the right software developer and another 30 months to create a CMS “designed by writers and editors, for writers and editors,” he says.
Dept. of Homeland Security Urges Papers to Learn how to Safeguard Their Operations
Homeland Security thinks newspapers are a vital national asset to be protected against terrorism. So why are newspapers so seemingly blasé about the department’s efforts to help them?
The Ethics of WikiLeaks: Setting the ‘Agenda’?
In the weeks that followed, the site that once barely registered on the media radar became both a hot topic for ethical debate and a new media force to be reckoned with. While praised by some, others spoke out against the very idea of publishing classified information, and others questioned WikiLeaks’ motives.
Stuck with Shuttered Plants, Papers Battle the Taxman
Newspaper plants are among the more complicated commercial properties to sell because they are special-use structures that are not easily converted to other industrial purposes. “The same issues that affect the value of the machinery affect the value of the plant,” explains John Woolard, managing partner at the property tax valuation and consulting firm Morrison & Head in Austin, Texas. In the case of newspapers, mothballed printing presses depress the value of the plants that house them.
Americas Extra/Pan-Am Highway
Latin American newspapers are in a good place right now, as this space discussed in the August issue of E&P. While North American papers struggle to reverse the decline of recent years, Latin American dailies have grown circulation by more than 20% in just the past three years — and are projected to increase revenue at an annual rate of 5.1% for the foreseeable future.