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Newspaper Industry Gets Torn Up Again

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 6:18 am

Warren Buffett may be the only newspaper owner in American who wants to support the business. In addition to his ownership of daily newspapers in Omaha and Buffalo, he recently ...
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Warren Buffett Tries To Save The Newspaper Business

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 9:26 am

It is no secret that the newspaper business has not been a good sector over the last decade.  Subscriptions declined about as fast as the number of smokers did in ...
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Buffett Buys Newspapers

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 6:24 am

Warren Buffett surprised investors when he said Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) may buy more newspapers. It already owns the daily in Buffalo and recently bought the paper in Omaha, which ...
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Can Microsoft Save Cursed Barnes & Noble? No

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 6:38 am

Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) decision to invest in the e-commerce arm of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) will do nearly nothing for the bricks-and-mortar book company. The challenge the two companies ...
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What Do Raiders See in Barnes & Noble?

Posted: April 24, 2012 at 6:41 am

Not much is left of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS). Its bricks-and-mortar model has been ravaged by online competition. Its Nook e-reader trails well behind the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle ...
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As Internet Video Activity Grows, the Search for Profit Continues

Posted: April 20, 2012 at 6:42 am

Online data research firm Comscore reports that the viewership of video online continues to rise rapidly. Video Metrix service showing that 181 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 37 billion online content ...
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Corzine Did Nothing Wrong On MF Transfer?

Posted: March 26, 2012 at 6:14 am

Maybe the media misjudged Jon Corzine, former CEO of bankrupt financial firm MF Global. Last week there were almost universal reports the he approved the transfer of client money to ...
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AP Hires Worst CEO in Newspaper Industry

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 6:40 am

The Associated Press hired the worst CEO in the newspaper industry as its 13th chief executive. Its board of directors should be ashamed, as should anyone who works at the news ...
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The News Industry Runs Out of Money

Posted: March 19, 2012 at 6:36 am

The key conclusions of the annual Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism report on the “State of the News Industry” are two. A rise in new technology that allows information dissemination has ...
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Trouble for Online News Sites

Posted: February 13, 2012 at 6:53 am

One of the challenges traditional news media face is that advertising has begun to move online. As its turns out, the news media does not do much better on the internet than ...
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The Digital Omnivore vs. the Couch Potato

Posted: February 10, 2012 at 6:43 am

The most frightening observation of the new and remarkably comprehensive Comscore “U.S. Digital in Focus: 2012” report is the rise of the “digital omnivore.” These multidevice consumers roam the streets, ...
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As Facebook Ad Share Surges, Smaller Sites in Danger

Posted: January 31, 2012 at 6:45 am

New data from online research firm Comscore shows Facebook had 27.9% of the U.S. display advertising market, up from 21% in 2010. Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) share was 11%. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) ...
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The Future of Theaters Fades, as the Internet Finally Rises Enough

Posted: January 2, 2012 at 6:25 am

Ticket sales for movie theaters dropped in 2011 the most in 16 years, according to Hollywood.com. Some of the fall-off is due to a dearth of blockbuster films. But the ...
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Wall St. Fooled by Newspaper Industry

Posted: December 26, 2011 at 6:02 am

Traders rarely make mistakes as bad as the one they made when they pushed newspaper stocks higher early in the year. Shares in companies such as the New York Times (NYSE: ...
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New York Times Abandons Local Media

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 6:21 am

It is strange that the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) would want to sell its local media group. Local papers are, in most cases, doing better than large metropolitan ones. ...
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