Lament for a Dying Field: Photojournalism
With the decline of newspapers and magazines, photojournalists and their agencies are suffering like never before. At least those not covering celebrities.
View ArticleNewspaper Slump Deepens; Q2 Ad Sales Drop 29%
The Associated Press reports that “newspapers’ financial woes worsened in the second quarter as advertising sales shrank by 29 percent, leaving publishers with $2.8 billion less revenue than they had...
View ArticleMajority Leader Reid Having His Own ‘Jared Polis Moment’
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis danced on the grave of the Rocky Mountain News, and now U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has thrown a shovel full of dirt at the Las Vegas Review-Journal hoping it sparks something. Here’s a...
View ArticleWSJ Now Nation’s Largest Newspaper
The Wall Street Journal has passed USA Today as the most-subscribed newspaper in the U.S. Unfortunately, the WSJ nabbed the honor only after USA Today raised its newstand price 33 percent saw a...
View ArticleRIP, Editor & Publisher
“America’s oldest journal covering the newspaper industry” realizes the same fate of so many newspapers it covered.
View ArticleDenver Post Owner Declares Bankruptcy
Of course, that is not exactly how Aldo Svaldi’s Denver Post article this morning described it. Before running across the word “bankruptcy” for the first time in the third paragraph, it was described...
View ArticleDenver Post Circulation Decline Greater than National Average
The bad news for newspapers continues. The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) reports that domestic weekday newspaper circulation fell 8.7 percent over the past six months. Meanwhile, here in Colorado,...
View ArticleDenver Post Ranks Eighth Among Newspaper Twitter Followers
Circulation numbers are still king, of course, but here is the ranking of U.S. newspapers according to their Twitter followers (Note: it only ranks the newspapers’ primary Twitter accounts). The Denver...
View ArticleDepressing Denver Newspaper Prediction of the Week
If the University of Southern California Annenberg School’s Center for the Digital Future is correct, Denver likely will not have a major daily newspaper in 2017. Instead, The Denver Post will be an...
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