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Two years ago the buzz was that mobile was the next big thing, and now that consumers are moving to tablets and smartphones, the moment has arrived. Nielsen says that 50.4% of mobile users now have a smartphone. More than two-thirds of those in the 25-34 age group have a smartphone. The report is here. […]
Read More »Warren Buffett’s decision to buy 63 daily and weekly newspapers from Media General confirms the market value of organizations that build a strong community around local news. That value is precisely what digital news entrepreneurs like MinnPost, Texas Tribune and Voice of San Diego are counting on as they build their organizations. Buffett, CEO of the […]
Read More »Back in the 1960s, before baseball had a designated hitter, I had a paper route. This was a job formerly given to 12-year-olds but now has been taken over by adults.It was a measure of the daily newspaper’s market dominance that a kid who wanted a paper route had to buy it from another kid. […]
Read More »Gumersindo Lafuente of El Pais (photo by James Breiner Versión en español aquí. The culture war of print vs. digital rages on and continues to block the transformation of the newspaper industry. An incident at Spain’s most prestigious daily and a study of 38 U.S. newspapers both made this clearer recently. At El Pais in […]
Read More »The digital publishing industry will hit a significant milestone this year when for the first time it will book more ad revenue than all print newspapers and magazines. The really bad news for print media, even those with robust web operations, is that most of the revenue is going to non-print publishers such as Google, […]
Read More »All the numbers for Facebook are impressive, from its 750 million users to its $500 million in estimated first half profits this year. However, as a driver of web traffic for news outlets, the results look disappointing at first glance. At the 25 biggest news websites in the U.S., the percentage of traffic from Facebook […]
Read More »I came away from reading the State of the News Media in 2011 with the sense that newspapers in particular are being left farther behind by all of the advances in technology and payment systems. One example is Apple. Although it is selling subscriptions to publications on its iTunes platform, it is taking 30% of […]
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