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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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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/8/2012) Buffett’s Newspapers, Facebook Road Show

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 6:42 am

For some reason, Europe’s largest stock markets have shrugged off election results in Greece and France. Many indexes are down, particularly in Greece. But the markets the world watches most ...
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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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What Happened to New York Times’ CEO Search?

Posted: April 30, 2012 at 6:35 am

When Janet Robinson, the former CEO of the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) was pushed out of office last December, the corporation that owns the New York Times said it would find ...
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Investors Who Dislike Google’s Share Structure Should Sell Their Stock

Posted: April 13, 2012 at 6:31 am

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced it will propose to shareholders that it have a new share structure. Many investors believe the proposal favors the power of the founders too much. Those investors can sell ...
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Highest-Paid Hosts on Late Night TV

Posted: March 26, 2012 at 6:39 am

CBS announced Tuesday that David Letterman would continue hosting the "Late Show" until at least the end of 2014. The agreement will make him the longest-running host in late night, ...
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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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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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Media Digest (2/3/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 3, 2012 at 6:47 am

The U.S. indicts Swiss bank Wegelin on tax evasion charges. (Reuters) Fed president Richard Fisher says there is no need for QE3. (Reuters) Panasonic posts a quarterly loss of $2.6 ...
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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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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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Media Digest (12/20/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 6:20 am

AT&T (NYSE: T) gives up on its effort to buy T-Mobile. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) wins a patent case over HTC in the smartphone wars. (Reuters) Olympus will sell shares ...
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It Does Not Matter Who Runs the New York Times

Posted: December 16, 2011 at 6:28 am

It does not matter who runs the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT). The clock is slowly winding down on its viability as a standalone company. The newspaper industry has ...
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