Today In the Sky (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In case you missed this story in today's newspaper, USA TODAY’s weekly "10 great" list pays homage to Aviation History Month (November). USA TODAY asked Jennifer Michels, deputy managing editor of Aviation Week and author of 101 Best Aviation Attractions,...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- USA TODAY, the nation's top-selling print newspaper, announces the availability of USA TODAY 2009 World Series, a 100-page glossy publication celebrating the New York Yankees and their 27th World Series win. Retailing for $7.99 USA TODAY 2009 World Series commemorative publication will be available throughout the New York metropolitan area through the month of November...
Butler Bulldogs Insider (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Random thoughts and notes: -- Butler always features 3-point shooters, but is downright amazing how many are on this roster. For instance, I like what I've seen of Grant Leiendecker and Chase Stigall. And yet it may be difficult for them to get on the court. Willie Veasley would be considered a dangerous 3-pointer shooter on teams elsewhere (he made 34 3s on 33 percent last season), but Butler might...
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
If you were a newspaper subscriber last year, there’s a 10 percent chance you aren’t this year. That’s because paid circulation of daily newspapers nationally fell more than 10 percent from a year ago. Some papers suffered truly horrendous daily circulation losses: the San Francisco Chronicle (down 25.8 percent), The Boston Globe (down 18.5 percent) and The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger...
Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Gannett, the US publisher that owns Newsquest in the UK, has drawn up a list of "content prioritie," which have been obtained by Editor & Publisher . They include a recognition that "the daily newspaper is not a breaking news medium" while websites "are the primary medium for breaking news". They were presented by Kate Marymont, vice president/news for Gannett's community...
Newspaper Innovation (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
With 591,000 daily circulated copies, Metro US is now the the 5th largest newspaper in the US after the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the NY Times, and the LA Times but before the Washington Times (583,000) according to a press release by Metro US. (Reuters). The sources for the two sets of data, however, are [...]
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
From the Editorial Board For the past two days, Canadians have been subjected to a barrage of media reports predicting the imminent closure of the National Post . Television and radio, and some wire services — and to a lesser extent competing newspapers — were suggesting yesterday’s edition of the Post might be the last. Some radio hosts urged listeners to buy a souvenir final copy...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The latest newspaper circulation numbers, measuring copies sold from April through September of this year, show a 10.6 percent decline in daily newspaper sales, the first double-digit drop in circulation ever. Newspaper readership is now at its lowest level since before World War II. The biggest losers during this six-month period, as reported by NewsBusters's Tom Blumer, were the San Francisco Chronicle...
Morgan McLintic on PR (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
This week the Audit Bureau of Circulations published the circulations of the top 25 US newspapers for the six months to September 2009. 24 out of 25 of them show a decline. The WSJ officially overtook USA Today as the...
Sramana Mitra on Strategy (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
According to a recent report published by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, weekday newspaper circulation fell 11% and Sunday circulation 8% over the year. The San Francisco Chronicle was the worst hit newspaper, with circulation falling 26%, followed by USA Today’s 17% drop. Many analysts believe... ..
AMERICAN DIGEST (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Sort of speaks for itself, doesn't it? Courtesy of The Virginian. Every six months, the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases data about newspapers and how many people subscribe to them. And then everyone writes a story about how some newspapers declined some amount over the year previous. Well, that's no way to look at data! It's confusing—and it obscures larger trends. So we've taken chunks...
Dave's World (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Fox TV is getting a hot World Series and NFL football lineup that might allow it to pass up CBS on total viewers. The Wall Street Journal just climbed over USA Today to become the biggest US newspaper in circulation. And Keith Olbermann's obnoxious rants are finally dragging [P]MSNBC's cable news operation down to CNN's subbasement level just where it belongs. CNN is merely corrupt and one-sided. Olbermann's...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The 20-Year Decline of Newspapers in a Graph : [W]e've taken chunks of data for the major newspapers, going back to 1990, and graphed it, so you can see what's actually happened to newspaper circulation. (We excluded USA Today, because we don't care about it. If you're in a hotel? You're reading it now. That's nice.) Click to enlarge:
Dave's World (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Editor & Publisher buried the lede down to the fourth para, second sentence in the article linked above. Here's the bad news for the Old Grey Lady Tabloid Streetwalker & the rest of the Lefty Fishwrap Birdcage bottom dead-tree @ss-wipe material: Circulation at many of the country's largest newspapers continued a steep slide as the Audit Bureau of Circulations Monday morning released the latest...
prudent investor newsletters (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
When one or several companies of an industry are in the red financially, the losses may be attributed to the developments within the companies themselves. However, when losses are evident on an industry scale, then the core dynamics of the industry may be in question. This predicament currently applies to America's newspaper industry, whose survival seems threatened by the growing use of the internet...
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