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OPINION

 Don't Sell the Times... Yet 


May 14, 09 8:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times' ruling Ochs-Sulzberger family has a “habit of buying high and selling low,” writes John Gapper of the Financial Times. The clan sold the paper’s old Times Square building at a bargain price and bought back shares near their zenith. Now Arthur Sulzberger... More »

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media • David Geffen • newspaper • New York Times • Carlos Slim • Ochs-Sulzberger • newspaper industry

(Newser) - It's only a matter of time before major American newspapers become nonprofits, writes Simon Dumenco in Advertising Age. The idea—he himself wrote about it in 2006, borrowing from the model of the Guardian—is "an inevitability," he writes. And now that a few "suddenly panicky" senators... More »

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newspaper • nonprofit • bailout • newspaper industry

WSJ Plans Micro-Payments for Web Access

News Corp. paper
will charge for individual articles

May 11, 09 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal will introduce a system of micro-payments for access to articles on its website, becoming the first newspaper to charge readers for individual stories. The service will target casual users unlikely to pay more than $100 for an annual online subscription, editor-in-chief Robert Thomson told the Financial ... More »

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newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • Dow Jones • News Corp • Robert Thomson • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

 With News, 
 'We Get What 
 We Pay For' 

Sick media must not die

May 10, 09 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - We know the mainstream media is sick, but it doesn’t have to die, writes Frank Rich in the New York Times. When television appeared, people worried it would eat movies, Broadway, and radio; all these forms still exist, having “learned to adapt and to collaborate with the monster.... More »

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Internet • newspaper • journalism • free • Frank Rich • new media • business models • reporting • investigative journalism

 Globe Strikes Deal 
 With Last Holdout Union 

Paper likely to remain in business as employees take major cuts

May 6, 09 6:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Boston Globe and its largest union struck a tentative deal early this morning that will likely keep the newspaper's owner, the New York Times Company, from shutting down the title. The union representing more than 600 employees in the editorial and advertising divisions was the last holdout in negotiations... More »

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newspaper • Boston • union • New York Times Company • Boston Globe • newspaper industry • Boston Newspaper Guild

(Newser) - Not even satirical daily paper the Onion can escape the woes of the print industry—it's shutting down its San Francisco and Los Angeles editions tomorrow, a source tells Gawker’s Ryan Tate. The Onion launched the editions in 2005 and 2006, respectively, well into the newspaper crisis, notes Tate,... More »

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(Newser) - The leaders of the Boston Globe’s biggest union have given themselves substantial raises over the past 3 years, even as the people they represent went without, the Herald reports. Boston Newspaper Guild president Dan Totten—who recently lambasted New York Times Co. execs for giving themselves extra days off... More »

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newspaper • union • New York Times Company • Boston Globe • newspaper industry • newspaper guild • Boston Newspaper Guild • Dan Totten

 As NY Plays Hardball, 
 Globe Swings in Wind 

Tensions high as last union works toward deal with Times Co.

May 5, 09 7:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tensions are high as the last of seven Boston Globe unions tries to hammer out a deal with the New York Times Company, the Washington Post reports. The Boston Newspaper Guild has blasted the Times Co’s “bullying tactics” in negotiations set to resume as soon as today, but... More »

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newspaper • New York Times Company • Boston Globe • newspaper industry • Boston Newspaper Guild

(Newser) - The New York Times will file a required 60-day notice with federal authorities that it plans to shut the storied Boston Globe, newspaper officials said last night. Tense negotiations with unions failed to produce millions of dollars in savings Times representatives say are necessary to continue Globe operations. The Newspaper... More »

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newspaper • New York Times • union • union busting • Boston Globe • shutdown • newspaper industry • newspaper guild

 NYT Readers 
 Brain Dead: 
 WSJ Editor 

USA Today also slammed—maybe

Apr 30, 09 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Media-to-media relations are starting to resemble reality shows, writes Ryan Tate in Gawker—maybe this will up readership. In a staff memo about circulation growth, the Wall Street Journal managing editor slammed the New York Times, writing “there are two measures of mortality, brain death and the day the... More »

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media • newspaper • New York Times • Wall Street Journal • USA Today

Analysis

 Obama Thrives On 
 Disintegrating Media 


Apr 27, 09 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House is watching the old media paradigm disintegrate with just a touch of opportunistic glee, reports Jon Ward of the Washington Times. “There are so many places that are driving the news that, in the end, nothing gets driven,” says press secretary Robert Gibbs.... More »

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Barack Obama • media • newspaper • American media • Obama administration

Red Sox Owner Offers to Buy Boston Globe

Tycoon wants NYT Co.'s 17.75% share of team

Apr 17, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times Company might be able kill two birds with one pitch. Red Sox principle owner John Henry recently told the company that he’d be willing to buy the Times’ 17.75% stake in the team, and that, if he did, the Times Co. could throw in... More »

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newspaper • New York Times • Boston Red Sox • Boston Herald • New York Times Company • Boston Globe

ANALYSIS

One-Stop Web Portal Thinks It Can Save Newspapers 

Group thinks consumers will be willing to pay for one-stop web portal

Apr 15, 09 4:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - A web portal planned by some top media execs may be the way forward for beleagured newspapers. Journalism Online would act as a “one-stop shop” for pay content, writes Nate Anderson for Ars Technica. Consumers could buy subscriptions to many newspapers at low prices, and with a sliding scale... More »

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newspaper • online media • online advertising • journalism • subscription • consumers • Steven Brill • Journalism Online

'I Made a Mistake' Buying Tribune Co.: Zell

Canny investor admits he backed a losing horse

Apr 15, 09 3:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sam Zell is famous for his business acumen. He made a near-psychic call to sell his office-property company for billions just months before the market tanked. But the magnate now tells Bloomberg another deal he made was as boneheaded, in retrospect, as the Equity Office Properties deal was prescient: buying... More »

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newspaper • Sam Zell • Tribune Company • mergers and acquisitions • business • acquisition • Equity Office Properties

As Economy Dives, Street Papers Thrive

Interest rising in quirky newspapers created
by the homeless

Apr 13, 09 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Street papers—newspapers created and sold by the homeless—are enjoying a small boom, even as mainstream papers feel the brunt of the economic crisis. It’s not just because of growing interest in these local papers’ quirky coverage, the New York Times reports. As the ranks of the down-and-out... More »

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newspaper • homeless • newspaper industry

ANALYSIS

'Jewel' Soon Was Tarnished for NY Times Co.: Globe

Globe staffers analyze parent company's treatment of once great paper

Apr 12, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Boston Globe is delving into the stunning fall of a once-great institution: itself. Keith O'Brien and Robert Weisman trace the decline back to 1993—when the New York Times Co. bought the "jewel of an asset" for a staggering $1.1 billion—to the unimaginable present, as the... More »

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newspaper • New York Times • New York Times Company • Boston Globe • newspaper industry

 Newspaper Cuts 
 Are Emptying Out 
 Press Boxes 

Papers cutting back baseball coverage

Apr 7, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The independent baseball beat writer could be a dying profession as newspapers look to trim costs, the Wall Street Journal reports. In baseball-crazy cities like New York and Boston, not much is likely to change. "It would be suicide, quite honestly," says a Red Sox writer for the... More »

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newspaper • Boston Red Sox • Baltimore Orioles • Baseball Writers' Association of America • Washington Nationals • baseball • newspaper industry • sports writer

 NYT Threatens to 
 Shut Boston Globe  

Unions given ultimatum over cutbacks

Apr 4, 09 3:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times has told the Boston Globe it will shutter the newspaper if unions don't swiftly agree to $20 million in concessions, the Boston Herald reports. The parent company told union leaders Thursday that the Globe is on course to lose $85 million this year unless serious cutbacks... More »

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newspaper • New York Times • union • Boston Globe • newspaper industry


 Guardian to 
 Stop Presses, 
 Go Twitter-Only 

Guardian says will stop the presses after 188 years

Apr 1, 09 6:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - After 188 years in print, the celebrated UK newspaper the Guardian is switching to a Twitter-only format, it said in today's April 1 edition. All news, the paper said, will appear in 140-character “tweets,” which “experts say” is enough for any story.  “In the new... More »

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newspaper • Web 2.0 • April Fools' Day • Twitter • newspaper industry

 Sun-Times Files 
 for Bankruptcy 

Conrad Black's back-tax debt does it in

Mar 31, 09 9:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Sun-Times Media Group, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, today announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, in the hope of “making the company fit for a buyer.” Unlike the also-bankrupt owner of its competitor, the Tribune, the Sun-Times has just one debtor:... More »

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newspaper • bankruptcy • Conrad Black • Chicago Sun Times • Chapter 11 • newspaper industry

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