Category: News business

  • News channel showdown: BBC News vs. Sky News

    I have been meaning to post for a while on the impact of Freeview on Sky News viewing. Freeview launched in November 2002, offering a set-top box for viewers who didn’t want Sky.

  • Is there anything special about online newspapers?

    Ryan Sholin – host of this month’s Carnival of Journalism – has a question: “What are we supposed to tell our newsrooms when they tell us they don’t have time to do anything special for the Web?” What does special on the web look like?

  • The New York Times strategy…

    Strategy at the New York Times? Goes a little something like this…according to their earnings call: There are four key elements to our strategy – introducing new products and services, both in print and online; aggressively managing our costs; rebalancing our portfolio of businesses both by making acquisitions and by divesting properties that no longer…

  • How newspaper managements see the future…

    If you want to see where the business end of the newspaper crisis is being played out, read the transcripts of the earnings calls. This is from the conference call with the CEO of US newspaper group McClatchy, Gary Pruitt [via Seeking Alpha*]. And these calls are where management gets down to what without an…