Newark 'Star-Ledger' Offers New Round of Buyouts
While the Garden State's largest daily is not revealing how many buyouts are being sought, Publisher Richard Vezza wrote in a letter to employees that based on its performance over the first seven months of the year, the paper is projected to lose $10 million in 2010. “Obviously, losses of this magnitude are unsustainable," he wrote.
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September 07, 2010
Righthaven Targets Nevada Senate Candidate for ‘R-J’ Copyright Violation
Righthaven has been criticized for filing copyright lawsuits against obscure bloggers and Websites that post newspaper articles without permission. But now it is going after a much bigger fish – the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Nevada and Tea Party favorite, Sharron Angle.
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September 06, 2010
Former Easton 'Express' Publisher Hal Neitzel Dead at 82
Hal B. Neitzel, publisher of The Express, Easton, Pa., throughout the 1980s, when it added a Sunday edition and converted from afternoon to morning publication, died Aug. 31. He was 82, lived just outside Easton, and had been in declining health. Under Neitzel, the paper that today is The Express-Times changed from local ownership to group ownership under Thompson Newspapers. The paper is now a part of a New Jersey-Pennsylvania group of papers published by Advance Publications, headquartered nearby.
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September 03, 2010
Q&A: Journalism Online's Gordon Crovitz
Journalism Online has arrived on the paid-content scene with the purpose of providing publishers a wider variety of options in charging for online access. Former Wall Street Journal Publisher Gordon Crovitz, one of the partners in this venture and no stranger to charging for online content, spoke with E&P about how his company can enable newspaper publishers to finally start turning “digital dimes” into hard profits.
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September 03, 2010
UPDATE: Postmedia Begins Job Cuts
Postmedia Network Inc., Canada's largest newspaper chain and successor to bankrupt Canwest, has started workforce reductions, according to the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union. When an Ontario Superior Court judge approved the sale in May, the deal offered jobs to all full-time employees almost all part-time workers. While "that did occur," said Postmedia Communications Director Phyllise Gelfand, the "current restructuring and... transformation into a digital-first company has seen local operations making business decisions that involve staffing reductions.
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September 03, 2010
News Corp.'s Digital 'Newspaper' has 'Super' Code Name
The digital news service — don’t call it a “newspaper” — being developed by News Corp. as an app for the iPad and other hand-held devices allegedly has a code name among those working to bring it to fruition. If the name sounds familiar, it should.
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September 02, 2010
No Excuses: Four Proven Marketing Tools for Generating Revenue Quickly
For a business that jealously guards its right to keep sources secret, that delights in stomping on its direct competition and that often won’t let some of its own employees work together, newspapers form a remarkably sharing industry. Yet even when the industry is mired in an economic slump such as this one, a puzzling number of newspapers drag their feet in adopting this or that innovation with the potential to improve their business.
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September 01, 2010
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.
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September 01, 2010
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.
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September 01, 2010
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.”
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September 01, 2010
Oregon Weekly ‘Illinois Valley News’ Sold
Bob and Jan Rodriguez have sold the Illinois Valley News in Cave Junction, Ore., after 25 years of ownership to Daniel Mancusco and Kevan Moore.
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September 01, 2010
Futrell Family Sells ‘Washington Daily News’ in N.C.
The sale of the 8,000-circulation Washington (N.C.) Daily News closed Wednesday. The newspaper was sold to Washington Newsmedia, LLC, by the Futrell family, which had published the newspaper since 1949.
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September 01, 2010