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Next Will Come No-Newspaper Markets, Says New York Times Story
An editor told me about the time Copley bought my paper that the Internet was a fad, like CB radio.— March 13, 2009 12:34 p.m.
If 3 Major Dailies Are Worth $22 Million, What Is U-T Worth?
Bauder: "The company spends money on readership research and focus groups, but just can't adjust the product to the findings: personal whims, close friendships, personal hatreds, management remoteness from average readers -- all keep that paper from connecting with its market." Believe me, the U-T is not the only paper with this problem. Why are TV cable companies -- who make newspapers seem like pinnacles of customer service by comparison and who provide something skeptics once said people would never pay for -- so successful in yanking huge amounts of money out of people's pockets each month? I will be intriguing to see if Cablevision's promise to start charging for some Newsday content works out. If anyone can make 'em pay till it hurts, it's a cable company.— March 4, 2009 12:53 p.m.
It Looks Like Copley Press Was Spending Money on Acquisitions When It Should Have Been Spending on Technology
The Journal Star, just a few weeks ago, had the first economic layoffs in the newsroom in 50 years. Last week, The Guild there ratified an agreement with GateHouse to forgo its 3 percent wage increase this year in exchange for a no-more-layoffs pledge through March 2010. Meanwhile, The Guild is pursuing an alternative ownership model called an L3C that would buy the paper from GateHouse: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sally-duros/how-to-…— February 10, 2009 3:22 p.m.
It Looks Like Copley Press Was Spending Money on Acquisitions When It Should Have Been Spending on Technology
I believe it to be fact that Gannett was the second-highest bidder for Peoria/Galesburg. That was used by management as a selling point to get employee-owners to vote for the Copley deal. The ESOP trustees originally said they'd make the decision about whom to sell to. The unions threatened to sue, and the trustees backed off and allowed a vote, conducted by a third party. Each owner got representation according to his ownership stake. In addition, Helen Copley insisted that each of the five unions vote to approve the sale.— February 10, 2009 11:58 a.m.
It Looks Like Copley Press Was Spending Money on Acquisitions When It Should Have Been Spending on Technology
Peoria Journal Star. And a slight correction: One of the two pagination systems, the paper's second, was purchased late in the last decade. The newest one was bought this decade. http://www.newsandtech.com/issues/2003/04-03/nt/0…— February 10, 2009 10:41 a.m.
It Looks Like Copley Press Was Spending Money on Acquisitions When It Should Have Been Spending on Technology
I think most newspapers found there was no great cost-savings windfall in pagination, unlike the 1970s conversion to cold type. It does seem odd that Copley had enough money to buy a new MAN Roland press and mail room, plus two pagination systems, for a certain Midwestern paper earlier in the decade but didn't have enough cash to paginate itself.— February 10, 2009 12:01 a.m.
It Looks Like Copley Press Was Spending Money on Acquisitions When It Should Have Been Spending on Technology
Tape and waxers? Oh, man. I'll bet they're hard to get. What about wax? Rule tape was always outrageously expensive; it's probably unbelievable now.— February 5, 2009 12:50 p.m.
U-T Axe Was to Fall Friday. It Didn't. Newspaper May Need Employees to Slam Together Long-Delayed Pagination System
Full-paper pagination isn't something that can be cobbled together in a couple weeks. These systems have huge learning curves. If the U-T is trying to do this in a hurry with a pared-back design/copy desk staff, God help them. I can't imagine anything that would more quickly induce a demoralized copy editor to look for work in another field.— February 3, 2009 4:52 p.m.
U-T Axe Was to Fall Friday. It Didn't. Newspaper May Need Employees to Slam Together Long-Delayed Pagination System
Of all the rumors I've heard about the U-T the past couple years, the one about running out of page film is the hardest to believe. If they get a pagination system, some copy editors may wish they were canned. I had to learn three pagination systems in 11 years at the Copley-owned paper where I worked. The first one and last one about killed me.— February 3, 2009 12:49 p.m.
LA Times Editor Says Online Ad Revenue Enough to Cover Entire Print and Online Payroll
OK, we've covered the print and online editorial payroll. Now we can move on to the electric bill, taxes, capital expenditures, janitors, accountants, IT people, maintenance, lawyers, publishers, window washers and advertising personnel.— January 15, 2009 3:28 a.m.