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Brainworks Software, the leading provider of newspaper advertising and circulation systems for North America has announced that the Times Publishing Company has selected Brainworks to provide their properties The Erie Times-News and their affiliated digital media company, CyberInk with a fifty-three seat integrated advertising and accounts receivable system.
A message sent to New York Times guild members on Tuesday evening says management answered staffers’ “demonstration of profound unhappiness” — a brief Monday afternoon walkout — “by throwing a tantrum and taking two provocative actions Tuesday."
Western Communications, the parent company of The Bulletin, the Redmond
Spokesman and five other newspapers, today announced that it will reduce
its number of employees.
Want Ads of Huntsville, Inc., owners of the weekly American Classifieds and monthly Farm & Ranch publications circulated in North Alabama, southern Tennessee and northeast Mississippi, announced last week that it has sold its assets, including the print products and distribution services, to Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc. (TVP) of Decatur, GA.
CPMs will rise over the next five years, but overall dollars will grow more slowly.
Borrell expects print ad revenues to stabilize or grow slightly
at most papers, a trend he expects to continue through 2017.
Investors in The New York Times Company have had a good time lately, watching the stock rise to $10, which has
netted them a return of over 40% in the last three months.
The Tampa Tribune was purchased by a private equity investment group and beginning today will be operated by a newly created, locally based company called the Tampa Media Group.
Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News Corp.,
conceded defeat this week in his battle with Google and the Internet,
adversaries even more powerful than the British government.
The newspaper industry’s print ad revenue will finally start to grow again, albeit slowly, Gordon Borrell, CEO of Borrell Associates, said today during NetNewsCheck’s "Prioritizing Digital in 2013: Maximizing New Revenue Streams” webinar.
The Times-Picayune’s strategy of cutting back on print days might make
sense in the long run. But its execution has opened up the door for
competition and weakened its ability to generate more money from
readers.
Google has confirmed the launch of a micropayment "experiment" which would give content creators the ability to sell individual articles online.
Borrell Associates CEO Gordon Borrell will unveil his company's 2013
forecast of newspaper industry advertising revenue today during a
NetNewsCheck webinar.
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