What Splitsville Tells Us — and New Intrigue in L.A.
First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab Earlier, related posts: Tribune’s Latest Lease on Life Split ‘Ems — & Then There Was Gannett...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Digital First Media’s Newspapers Half-Billion Dollar Pricetag...
Could the sale of the Digital First Media properties lead to the U.S.’s first quasi-national newspaper company? That’s the hope of DFM’s current owners, and the shiniest lure tossed out into the...
View ArticleThe Envelopes Open on the Sale of Digital First Media Newspapers
Valentine’s Day may be coming early for Digital First Media this week. DFM’s board and UBS, its broker, open the envelopes, looking for affection. It’s an uneasy love-me/love-me-not time, newspapers’...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Digital First Media’s Thunderdome Implosion (and Coming Sale)
Follow Newsonomics on Twitter @kdoctor First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab Today, we’ll hear official word of the demise of Project Thunderdome, one of the news industry’s...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of the Orange County Register’s (New, Newer, Newest) Plan
Related Freedom/Orange County Register Coverage New Hollywood Sequel: Aaron Kushner’s L.A. Register The Orange County Register’s Contrarian Paywall Aaron Kushner’s Virtuous Circles The Newsonomics of...
View ArticleWhat Are They Thinking? Tribune in Final Bidding to Buy U-T San Diego
Tribune Publishing is one of three final bidders on the acquisition of U-T San Diego, the entity formerly known as the San Diego Union-Tribune, according to several confidential sources. For Tribune...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Tribune Publishing Wraps Its Arms Around San Diego — and All of...
Update: Sales announcement at $85 million here Southern California, poking northward into Santa Barbara and stretching southward to the Mexican border, will soon become Tribune Territory. In a deal...
View ArticleWhat Are They Thinking? Mark Thompson and The Year 2020 Challenge
Related column: The Thinking (and Dollars) Behind The New York Times’ New Digital Strategy. Does Mark Thompson have 20/20 vision, or, perhaps better asked, does Mark Thompson have a vision of 2020?...
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Newsonomics: 10 Questions into 2016, Including Ad Blockers, Watson, TPUB and...
Everyone’s got questions. CNBC’s crew faced the Republican Ten for about an hour last evening until finding themselves in a no-man’s land. In front of them were the candidates who turned the tables on...
View ArticleSouthern California Roll-up Gains Impetus, as Orange County Register Declares...
Today, the Orange County Register’s parent Freedom Communications Inc. said it would file for bankruptcy protection Monday, at the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Santa Ana. The...
View ArticleTribune Publishing Builds a Southern California War Chest
Chicago entrepreneur Michael Ferro will soon move across town, into the third-floor chairman’s suite in the legendary Tribune Tower. Yes, he’ll be 16 floors below Tribune Publishing CEO Jack Griffin,...
View ArticleSanta Ana Showdown: Tribune’s Bid for Southern California
Companion column: Michael Ferro immediately redefines Tribune Publishing’s chairman role Today, in the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Santa Ana, Calif., the Orange County...
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Newsonomics: The Financialization of News Is Dimming the Lights of the Local...
There’s a nice scene in Hail, Caesar!, the Coen brothers’ latest movie, in which one Hollywood character astutely observes: “We’re not talking about money — we’re talking about economics.” Indeed....
View ArticleTrash-Talking in the O.C., With Two Newspapers Hanging in the Balance
Nothing is easy when it comes to newspapering in southern California. Two bids for the Orange County Register, and associated properties, are now in to a bankruptcy court, and my sources indicate they...
View ArticleTribune, the Register Auction and DOJ’s Scarlet Letter
For those who have been following the ongoing tragicomedy of California’s dying newspaper industry, today, March 16, marks a climax. And as with all amazing stories, the moments leading up to that...
View ArticleDigital First Media’s Real Price for Southern California Papers: A Paltry $16...
After besting Tribune Publishing to win the Orange County Register and (Riverside) Press-Enterprise out of bankruptcy (“It’s official: Digital First Media defeats Tribune in bid for southern California...
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Newsonomics: The Denver Post’s Protest Should Launch A New Era of “Calling B.S.”
What are we to make of The Denver Post’s “extraordinary display of defiance”? As the paper’s editorial board, led by Chuck Plunkett, fired a fusillade of public protest on Sunday — publishing six...
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