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Philly.com, the Website for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, launched a local group buying Website, PhillyDealyo.com, on Monday.
USA Today, which had planned to start charging a subscription price for its iPad application after the Fourth of July, will keep the app free at least through the third quarter, Gannett Co. CEO Craig Dubow said.
A newspaper carrier in eastern British Columbia was attacked by a deer twice in a week earlier this month. Already having sustained a black eye and cuts from an aggressive deer on July 2, Brock James of Cranbrook, about 40 miles north of Montana, had a run-in with another on July 5.
When a worried carrier called 911 to report that papers she delivered daily were still outside an elderly couple's St. Simons Island, Ga., home, police found that both occupants died after being trapped in the home's elevator. A day earlier, a carrier's early-morning call to police in Fargo, N.D., led to the apprehension of three persons suspected of stealing from vehicles.
On the heels of its positive second-quarter results reported this morning, Gannett announced a local advertising partnership with Yahoo in which all of Gannett's 81 local publishing organizations and seven of its Broadcasting Division sites will sell Yahoo advertising inventory in Gannett?s local markets.
After the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week refused to rehear its appeal en banc (E&P Online, July 14), the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority has ended its six-year fight to ban newsracks from the North Carolina airport. While the vending boxes will go in, they won't necessarily be where newspapers want them. Instead of being placed in areas where travelers wait for flights, the newsracks are planned for baggage claim area and each terminal's ticketing lobby.
The Gazette of Montreal will no longer publish a print edition on Sundays, beginning next month.
On July 13, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals turned down a Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority request that the full court review lower court decisions that would force the North Carolina airport to end its newsrack ban. The News & Observer, The McClatchy Co.'s daily in Raleigh, is among four companies that sued the authority, arguing that its ban violates the First Amendment by preventing dissemination of news.
Gannett Co. Inc. has appointed Craig Etheridge as mobile advertising sales vice president for Gannett Digital. Etheridge was most recently emerging platform sales vice president at The Weather Channel, where he was responsible for sales of TWC's mobile product portfolio. Etheridge is responsible for expanding Gannett's mobile advertising portfolio and developing a long-term sales strategy.
Last Saturday?s giveaway of Prince?s new album 20TEN boosted sales of the British newspapers The Daily Mirror and Daily Record by huge numbers, their parent company said Tuesday.
A North Carolina newspaper carrier alerted a family whose house was on fire July 11, enabling all to leave the house without injury. Authorities told News14 Carolina television that the fire started just after 4 a.m. at the home near Holly Springs, just south of Raleigh.
The Times-Call, Longmont, Colo., informed subscribers on its Website that deliveries of the July 9 paper would be "a little later than normal." Subscribers were told carriers received papers an hour late owing to mechanical problems with the press, and that copies should be delivered by 7 a.m. Circulation personnel on hand early in the morning did not know the cause of the press problem.
Free Standing Insert (FSI) coupon activity rose 10.1% based on Coupons Dropped during the first six months of 2010 versus the same time period a year ago, according to Marx, part of the Kantar Media Group. That increase is the largest seen during the first six months of a calendar year, surpassing the second-highest growth reported in Coupons Dropped ? 8.0% in the first half of 2004.