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Newspaper cost structure

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Newspapers by istockphotoBeing a TV per­son, I’m curi­ous about the cost struc­ture of print news­pa­per oper­a­tions. Over at the Monday Note, Frédéric Fil­loux writes:

In a typ­ical oper­a­tion, the biggest costs are indus­trial ones: around 25%-35% for paper and print­ing; another 30%-40% for dis­tri­bu­tion; around 18–25% for edit­or­ial; the remain­ing 10–15% are for admin­is­trat­ive and mar­ket­ing expendit­ures. Con­tinue read­ing →

The crisis facing newspapers: a small case study

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What if you had a news­pa­per with a guar­an­teed geo­graphic and social com­munity, no dis­tri­bu­tion costs, no staff costs, and only print­ing to pay for.

Could you keep it going without tak­ing it online? Try and solve the real-life busi­ness conun­drum below.

We think that hav­ing an inde­pend­ent press has made a dif­fer­ence to the uni­ver­sity — and print­ing the news and hand­ing it out out­side the uni­ver­sity means the voice of the stu­dents can no longer be ignored…

We had high hopes to sell more advert­ising over the sum­mer, but it is rap­idly becom­ing clear that advert­ising is now even harder to come by, mainly thanks to the ‘credit crunch’ and the eco­nomic down­turn… Con­tinue read­ing →