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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Wall Street (Mostly) Stops Betting Against Newspaper Stocks Thursday's stock market drop over fears that Wall Street's rally is running way ahead of the real economy took the newspaper sector down with it. So are newspaper stocks being set up for another crash? - November 19, 2009
At Inland Annual Meeting -- Cuts, Content and Quips Inland Press Association kicked off its 124th annual meeting in Chicago Monday with surprisingly robust attendance, but plenty of discussions, in and out of the meeting rooms, about the industry's preoccupations: monetizing online content and casting about for a new business model that works. - October 27, 2009
Twenty-Two Years After Black Monday: Newspaper Stocks Look Sickly The wider markets recovered handily from the stock market Crash of Oct. 19, 1987. The Dow, for instance, is up 475% since then. And newspapers? They've lost ground -- a lot if it -- since the Crash.- October 19, 2009
Print 09: Big Crowds and Actual Big Iron! Wandering through Print '09, the big equipment show in Chicago that winds up on Wednesday, makes an old newspaper hand nostalgic for the old Nexpo and ANPAtec shows the industry once hosted. It has actual crowds, sprawling booths, and working big iron wherever you look.- September 15, 2009
Can We Please Give Sam Zell A Break? He simply does not deserve the taunting he's getting from the Chicago media and certain quarters of the business press over the finally signed deal to sell the Chicago Cubs baseball team, its iconic Wrigley Field venue and its share in a regional sports cable channel. - August 25, 2009
A Vacationing Reporter's Notebook: From Pyle to Perv Starting a vacation last week at the Jersey Shore, I vowed, again, not to buy so many of the papers available at the Point Pleasant Beach newsstand I still think of as Noble's Smoke Shop, this time catch up on some other reading. I would finish that biography of Porfirio Diaz and plow through those back issues of Foreign Affairs and Harpers. - August 17, 2009
Thank Short Sellers for the Rally in Newspaper Stocks? Newspaper stocks have soared over the past two weeks. Short sellers, the folks who bet against newspapers, deserve at least a tip of the hat when you look at the numbers.- July 29, 2009
Best Papers Don't Give Up on Top-Line Revenue Growth The Inland Press Association and Newspaper Business Development Network's "Newspaper Business Development Contest" illustrates for one judge newspapers' tenacity in the face of an advertising collapse. Bonus: the list of winners.- July 22, 2009
In Puerto Rico, a Nonprofit 'Sun' Rises Daily Nonprofit business models are the talk of the newspaper industry on the U.S. mainland. But in Puerto Rico, 85 press workers, salespeople and journalists who lost their jobs when the San Juan Star folded last summer aren't just talking about the nonprofit model -- they've formed a cooperative that publishes the island's only English-language daily. - July 13, 2009
'Chicago Tribune' Editorial Board, Post-Blago, Grows Stronger Six months after the revelations that former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich allegedly plotted to get certain members of the Chicago Tribune editorial board fired, editorials have grown enormously in importance at the paper. - June 08, 2009
In New Thriller, Hero is an 'L.A. Times' Reporter With a Pink Slip Michael Connelly's newest novel "The Scarecrow" has all the elements of a page-turner thriller: Flawed protagonist and rekindled love interest on a collision course with a seemingly omniscient killer whose deviance might give even Hannibal Lector the creeps. - June 03, 2009
A Pioneering Journalism Educator -- and 'E&P' Writer -- Hits Age 100 On April 23, students and faculty at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at San Jose (Calif.) State University are gathering to celebrate the 100th birthday of the man who started its daily newspaper, won its accreditation, led it for more than two decades, and taught budding journalists many, many more years than that. - April 15, 2009
My 'Cronica' Crush How an Irish-American from Chicago fell for a Paraguayan tabloid that mixes slangy Spanish he barely understands, with an indigenous tongue that completely confounds him. - April 01, 2009
How Did Newspapers Get in This Pickle? E&P Editor-at-Large Mark Fitzgerald, at the midyear meeting of the Inter American Press Association in Asuncion, Paraguay, delivered an address this week on the state of the U.S. newspaper industry. The full transcript of his speech follows. - March 18, 2009
'Rocky' Biggest Paper to Fold? Er, Not By a Long Shot Our bad: The Rocky Mountain News may be the biggest U.S. newspaper to fold in a long time, but as several alert E&P readers have pointed out, it was assuredly not the largest.- March 05, 2009
Stock Market At 1997 Level? Newspapers Would LOVE It The Dow Jones Industrial Average's plunge to 1997 levels is recounted in Tuesday's newspapers with the gloom and alarm it deserves. The Wall Street Journal reports that "markets shudder across the globe." The New York Times said it reflected "fears that the world's economies are even weaker than had been thought." - March 03, 2009
No Furlough From Pain At Media General Employees will understandably debate whether a furlough of two unpaid work weeks is too much, but there's no denying the financial punishment that brought Media General to this point. - February 18, 2009
'Time' To the Rescue for Newspapers? The temptation is irresistible to begin any commentary on Walter Isaacson's cover story in Time -- "How To Save Your Newspaper: A Modest Proposal" -- by observing that Time itself looks more in need of saving than even newspapers that symbolize the industry's troubles, like the Chicago Tribune or Chicago Sun-Times, both of which dropped pretty hefty packages on my doorstep Sunday. - February 08, 2009
Top Ten Newspaper (Business) Quotes of 2008 We're concluding a miserable but memorable year that inspired expressions of woe, insight and even an occasional burst of optimism. Here are my nominees for the top newspaper business quotes of the year gone by. - December 31, 2008
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