Don’t count California’s media out.
Many of its major newspapers are clutching onto the flotsam of a sinking business model. Television news programs are barely making single digit ratings in many media markets.
Yet California, which spawned media legends like William Randolph Hearst and Otis Chandler, and paradigm-shifting innovations like Google, Yahoo! and Daily Kos, is again [...]
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Media Innovations Springing Up in California
Congress to newspapers: drop dead
For struggling newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle, it was a faint hope anyway that Congress would come to its rescue (if merging with Dean Singleton’s MediaNews fits your definition of “rescue.”)
In the most humiliating way possible, Congress has rejected the idea of exempting papers from anti-trust regulations, which seemed to erect an additional obstacle [...]
Sacramento Bee Replaces Departing State Capitol Photographer
Here’s one sliver of good news:
I had noted in an earlier post that the Sacramento Bee would be losing its lone State Capitol photographer, with the departure of Brian Baer on March 27. However, the Bee’s Capitol Bureau was without a photographer for just over a week, the Bee’s Capitol Bureau Chief Dan Smith [...]
The $15 million newspaper
How much is a major circulation newspaper worth today?
The San Diego Union-Tribune, with a circulation of 269,000, the 23d largest in the United States, miraculously found a buyer this week – Platinum Equity, a private investment firm based in Beverly Hills.
No official word of how much the company paid. But San Diego CityBeat reported that the [...]
Another milestone.
Less than two weeks after the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle Post Intelligencer shut their doors, here’s another milestone: the Christian Science Monitor issued its final daily print edition today. But at least the paper won’t be shutting down completely. Itwill print one edition each week — and rely on its online version [...]
