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Best and Worst Run Companies in America

Posted: December 8, 2011 at 6:26 am

Many American companies have done incredibly well this year. A number posted extraordinary financial results in 2011. Others have launched products that revolutionized markets. Of course, many big public corporations ...
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A Move Toward Digital Comes Too Late at Time Inc.

Posted: December 1, 2011 at 6:26 am

 Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) publishing arm, Time Inc., has hired a senior digital media executive to run the largest magazine publisher in the U.S. Laura Lang, who headed digital ad agency ...
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America’s Ten Largest Newspapers: The Future of Print

Posted: November 7, 2011 at 10:55 am

America’s largest newspapers have struggled to recover from what many analysts considered certain extinction. These properties are at the point where they have some chance to continue, although as smaller ...
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Google and New York Times: One Struggles as the Other Thrives

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 6:27 am

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced monster earnings on the same day that the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) said it would cut more workers. This news shows once again how great ...
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Pew Research — Local Information Need Buoys Newspapers

Posted: September 26, 2011 at 6:24 am

The death of newspapers and local TV may not be a death at all. Editors of these media will need to understand what consumers want from them before there can ...
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As Media Consumption Moves to the Internet, Facebook Awaits

Posted: September 23, 2011 at 6:32 am

Two things happened this week in the world of internet media that appear to be unrelated but could change the consumption of information substantially. The Pew Research Center for the ...
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The New York Times Hits a Wall as Industry Falters

Posted: September 22, 2011 at 6:25 am

Advertising revenue at the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) will be off 8% in the third quarter, according the company’s CEO, Janet Robinson. She made the comments at a gathering ...
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The New York Times in Trouble — Again

Posted: September 13, 2011 at 6:18 am

The stock price of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) has dropped to a two-year low, a sign that investors no longer consider a newspaper industry turnaround -- particularly at ...
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CBS, Left For Dead, Rises

Posted: August 3, 2011 at 6:27 am

The traditional network TV business was supposed to have begun a sharp decline years ago, killed by the Internet and online video. CBS (NYSE: CBS) proved that is hardly true. ...
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How the Election Cycle Will Win For TV & Media (GCI, SSP, JRN, GTN, SBGI, BLC)

Posted: June 16, 2011 at 10:50 am

Gabelli & Co. has a unique research report out this morning and we took a look at this to see where the opportunity is.  Imagine that television stocks should still ...
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The Myth About Online Ad Sales Growth

Posted: April 14, 2011 at 5:06 am

The Internet Advertising Bureau, anxious to prove the effectiveness of its media, distributed a report which says online ad revenue reached $7.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, up ...
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Moody’s Japan Outlook And The Price Of Oil

Posted: February 22, 2011 at 5:24 am

Moody's put the rating of Japan's debt on credit watch. The outlook was cut to "negative" from "stable." The government of Japan's current rating is Aa2. Moody's said, "The rating ...
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Deepwater Commission: “Complex Systems Almost Always Fail In Complex Ways”

Posted: February 18, 2011 at 5:46 am

The seven members of The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling might as well have stayed at home instead of venturing out to examine why the ...
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Online Ad Spending Passes Newspapers

Posted: December 20, 2010 at 5:32 am

Many people have read so much about the death of the newspaper industry that they might believe that online ad spending passed newspaper ad spending years ago. That is not ...
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The iPad Erodes Newspaper Print Subscriptions

Posted: December 10, 2010 at 3:06 pm

First, video killed the radio star.  Now, it looks like the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad is causing the same sorts of disruption to newspaper publishers. According to a survey of ...
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