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MoJo’s digital ad revenue: up 97 percent over last year
We wrote earlier this year about some optimism-inspiring traffic gains over at Mother Jones: This February — long before Osama bin Laden’s death spiked traffic stats for many mags in MoJo’s league —...
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The newsonomics of NYT’s Sunday gain and paid content 2.0
Editor’s Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. And on the seventh day, they...
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Gone in a Flash: How Adobe’s abandonment of Flash for mobile devices impacts...
Jason Perlow at ZDNet broke a pretty big story overnight: Adobe is abandoning development of the mobile version of Flash Player. As the text of the announcement Perlow obtained has it: Our future work...
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The newsonomics of the magic formula for 2012
There’s an algorithm out there, we can be sure. It’s got all the components of business success for news-creating companies, each value carefully computed and relational to the others. Yet,...
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Martin Langeveld: A look back at my 2011 predictions, along with a fresh...
Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Next up is Martin Langeveld, who spent 30 years in the daily newspaper business,...
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The newsonomics of the next New York Times CEO
Talk about a plum job: chief executive officer of The New York Times Company. The Times is one of the most respected brands on the planet. It is a pinnacle of the news trade. It generated revenues of...
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The newsonomics of ads that go bump in the night
We live in two worlds. In the afternoon, on our desktops or laptops, we read news like the new Pew study showing yet another way that newspapers are going to hell. This one was hardly news to anyone...
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This Week in Review: Closing in on News Corp.’s Sun, and a privacy crisis for...
News Corp.’s problems spread to the Sun: The ongoing phone hacking scandal at News Corp., which took down News of the World last summer, is now threatening to swallow the company’s other British...
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The newsonomics of crossover
The signs are everywhere — the signs of crossover. We’re not there yet, but publishers are starting to sense that the time when their business models become more about digital and less about print...
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The newsonomics of Pricing 101
When the price of your digital product is zero, that’s about how much you learn about customer pricing. Now, both the pricing and the learning is on the upswing. The pay-for-digital content revolution...
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Dan Kennedy: How news executives can fend off the Wolff at their door
Facebook’s disappointing IPO may be indicative of a larger problem: the declining value of online advertising, an inexorable force that will eventually destroy not just Facebook, but the web itself....
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The newsonomics of Google (Ad) Singularity
Next Wednesday, Google hosts an all-day assemblage of news publishers in New York City. It won’t be the first meeting, but it’s an intriguing time to be talking “partnership” with news media. Why?...
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The newsonomics of the News Corp. split
Are two Ruperts even better than one? We may soon find out, as News Corp. moves forward today to clone itself. The cloning, or splitting, of the $34 billion company certainly has its logic. Hive off...
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The newsonomics of the only metric that matters
Amid the big news of the News Corp. split, The New York Times announced its deal with Flipboard. Then, the next day, The Wall Street Journal reported its own deal with Pulse. It looked like Tablet...
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The newsonomics of good news about news
Admit it: Good news is boring. All of us in and around the news business know that. Bad news gets read and gets our juices flowing. So when that news DNA is challenged by reality, the news can be easy...
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The newsonomics of Amazon vs. Main Street
Order it on Amazon. Then run to your front door and have it handed to you. The news of Amazon’s same-day delivery blitzkrieg — first explained in depth in an excellent Financial Times piece — elicited...
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The newsonomics of Syndication 3.0, from NewsCred and NewsLook to Ok.com and...
Of the many failed digital news dreams, digital syndication is one of the greatest enigmas. We’ve seen companies like Contentville, Screaming Media, and iSyndicate (Syndication 1.0) followed by...
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The newsonomics of breakthrough digital TV, from Aereo to Dyle and MundoFox...
In 1998, when Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought the Los Angeles Dodgers, the storied franchise was worth $380 million. News Corp. sold the team in 2003 for $430 million. After winning the ability to...
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The newsonomics of the Quartz business launch
Quartz — Atlantic Media’s business news startup, set to take flight later this month — may be bursting into the marketplace at a gem of a time. Tepid growth is taking hold in the U.S., with second...
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Four years later, the Ann Arbor Chronicle is still weird and wonky — and it’s...
For four years, Mary Morgan and Dave Askins have been the change David Simon was waiting for. The married couple’s website, the Ann Arbor Chronicle, doesn’t just cover the planning commission, as the...
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