Recently added articles from NewsInc:
AD DROUGHT CONTINUES IN APRIL; NO MAY FLOWERS Some publishers point to Easter's 2005 date shifting to March.(newspaper advertising)
May 16, 2005 ... While April showers may bring May flowers, the newspaper advertising drought seemed to persist last month, with the first six companies reporting generally parched results. Many of the companies noted that the ad-rich Easter holiday fell in March this year, making comparisons with last ...
KRI STARTS BERKELEY FREE DAILY.(Knight-Ridder Inc. starts East Bay Daily News)
May 16, 2005 ... Leveraging the proximity of existing operations along with its recent acquisition of a company that specializes in free dailies -- in college towns no less -- Knight Ridder last week started the East Bay Daily News, which will serve Berkeley, Calif., and surrounding neighborhoods. ...
LIBERTY SOLD TO ANOTHER INVESTMENT FIRM.(Liberty Publishing Group Inc., Fortress Investment Group L.L.C.)
May 16, 2005 ... The former community newspaper division of Hollinger International Inc. changed hands again last week, as the Fortress Investment Group LLC of New York City said it was merging one of its affiliates with Liberty Publishing Group Inc. of Northbrook, Ill. Terms weren't disclosed. ...
DJ TO DOWNSIZE EUROPEAN, ASIAN PAPERS.(Dow Jones and Company Inc. plans new format for Wall Street Journal)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005 ... Jumping on the compact-newspaper bandwagon, Dow Jones said last week that it would downsize the European and Asian editions of the Wall Street Journal. Broadsheet papers throughout Europe and the United Kingdom have been switching to one of a variety of smaller sizes. U.S ....
JUSTICE SEES NO MONOPOLY IN SEATTLE.(Department of Justice. Antitrust Division investigation on Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer agreement)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005 ... Late Friday afternoon the anti-trust division of the U.S. Justice Department said that it had closed an investigation into the 22-year-old agreement between the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, saying that it had found no evidence of any wrongdoing. The ...
PERSONS.(Hearst Corp. appoints Jack Condon, Daily Telegram appoints Paul Heidbreder, Fulton County Daily Report appoints Mischelle Grant )
May 16, 2005 ... Executive suite: At The Hearst Corp. in New York City, Jack Condon has been named senior vice president of finance at the newspaper division; previously he was chief operating officer at Primedia Business Magazines and Media, a job he'd held since 2001. Starting in publishing in 1978, ...
U.S. DAILY NEWSPAPER CIRC DOWN 1.9%; ONLY 29% ADDED NEW READERS Latest ABC report says Sunday circulation even worse: down 2.5%.(Audit Bureau of Circulations)
May 09, 2005 ... Monday's release of the Audit Bureau of Circulation's semi-annual report on newspaper distribution indicated that U.S. daily circulation dropped 1.9 percent and Sunday circulation dropped 2.5 percent, year-over-year, for the six months ending March 31, among the 814 daily papers listed in ...
CIRC LAWSUITS JUST KEEP ON COMING.
May 09, 2005 ... Fallout from last summer's circulation scandals continued in recent weeks, as advertisers in Milwaukee sued their hometown paper claiming the paper had fudged its circulation numbers for almost a decade, while stockholders in Tribune Co. -- or at least lawyers -- claimed that inflated ...
WPO HAS 12% GAIN IN NET INCOME IN Q1.
May 09, 2005 ... Continuing large gains in its education division helped The Washington Post Co. to post a 12-percent gain in net income, to $66.6 million, for the first quarter of 2005 when compared to the same period in 2004, with diluted earnings per share also going up 12 percent, to $6.87. ...
BRIEFS.(internet advertising revenue forecasts, Hollinger International Inc. settles suit against directors for illegal payments, Philadelphia Daily News starts podcasting)
May 09, 2005 ... * Internet ad predictions revised upward: The on-line commerce analysis firm eMarketer Inc. said last week that it expects that on-line advertising revenue will rise almost 34 percent in 2005, to about $13 billion. Earlier it had predicted that on-line ad revenue growth would go up 21 ...
PERSONS.(Ann Hoffman appointed at JournalNews and Middletown Journal, Calkins Media appoints Michael White, Frank Barrows of Charlotte Observer resigns)
May 09, 2005 ... Publisher: At the JournalNews of Hamilton, Ohio, and the nearby Middletown Journal, Ann Hoffman has been named publisher; she will continue as publisher of Cox Ohio's weekly newspapers. Earlier, Hoffman was a deputy managing editor at the Dayton Daily News, which she joined in 1994. Before ...
NEWSPRINT MAKERS CONTINUE TO HAVE FINANCIAL WOES Big 3 N. American all post Q1 losses, though "special items' help out.(Abitibi-Consolidated Inc., Bowater Inc., and Norske Skog Canada Ltd.)
May 02, 2005 ... A weak U.S. dollar and the on-going need to maintain equipment saw two of the three largest North American newsprint makers -- both based in Canada -- continuing once again to have a loss in their first quarters, they reported last week. The American company -- through asset sales and ...
DAILIES LAUNCH NEW PRODUCTS.(daily newspapers)
May 02, 2005 ... Growth of niche and other non-daily products continues unabated, certainly illustrated in recent weeks by four start-up announcements from publishers all around the country. Next Saturday the Seattle Times will start distributing a new weekly home and garden section. The new ...
NEWSPAPER EXECS MAKE WELL-PAID LIST.
May 02, 2005 ... In the latest of its well-known lists about money and people, last week Forbes magazine released its enumeration of the 500 highest paid top executives of publicly traded companies. The list included newspaper companies Gannett Co. Inc., Knight Ridder, Tribune Co. and The Washington Post ...
ABC NOW HAS 500 READER REPORTS.(Audit Bureau of Circulations)
May 02, 2005 ... Turning a significant milestone in publisher acceptance, the Audit Bureau of Circulations said last week that with the release of a Reader Profile report for The Oregonian of Portland, it now produces 500 of the reports for daily papers across the country and that two-thirds of dailies ...
INTERNET ADS UP 33%, TO $9.6B, OVER 2003.
May 02, 2005 ... A survey released last week says that sales of Internet advertising went up 33 percent, to $9.6 billion, when comparing 2003 to 2004, and that the total exceeded the previous high-water mark set in 2000 by almost 20 percent. Further, the last quarter of 2004 had more Internet ...
PERSONS.(Cox Newspapers appoints Brian Cooper, Oakland Press appoints Kevin Haezebroeck, Fayetteville Observer appoints Brian Tolley )
May 02, 2005 ... Executive suite: At Cox Newspapers in Atlanta, Brian Cooper has been named executive vice president; previously he was chief operating officer of Cox Ohio Publishing and general manager of the Dayton Daily News, a job he'd held since August 2004. Earlier, Cooper had been senior vice ...