Printing costs

Newspaper cost structure

December 10, 2008

Being 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.

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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 […]

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