Monthly Archives: February 2009

Death of a newspaper – blow by blow

By Julie Starr | Published: February 28, 2009

From a blow-by-blow blogpost about how the decision to close the Rocky Mountain News was communicated to staff:

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Giving away content online is not the problem, giving away advertising is

By Julie Starr | Published: February 27, 2009

This post by Paul Robinson should be mandatory reading. I think he hits a few nails on the head. Firstly about news organisations looking to blame everyone but themselves for their current predicament. They need to radically restructure their organisations - every department, every process.

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NZ online ad spend up 22%

By Julie Starr | Published: February 26, 2009

The Interactive Advertising Bureau says online ad spend was up sharply in the fourth quarter, and total internet spending for 2008 up a whopping 43% year-on-year to $193 million. But there’s a spike in the tail: spending in the fourth quarter was 3% down over the immediatlely proceeding period.

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More bad news for news publishers

By Julie Starr | Published: February 26, 2009

I told myself I wouldn’t bother rounding up bad news about the new business anymore but feel like pointing to these: NZ writedowns hurt APN’s profit “Another Australasian media company – APN News & Media – is reducing the value of key assets as the advertising downturn bites on both sides of the Tasman. “The [...]