Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest, which owns more than 200 titles in the UK including the South London Guardian series and Brighton Argus, has reported a 7.9 per cent year-on-year fall in advertising revenue for the third quarter, down from worse declines of 10.3 per cent in the second and 12.4 per cent in the first quarters. more…
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Pomerado Newspapers has launched a new, locals-only classified website that features house and apartment rentals, items for sale, jobs with local companies and cars being sold by your neighbors. more…
Claz.org is a classifieds database breaking out of beta testing after 10 months of development. As of September of 2011, Claz.org is officially live and functional.A DEPRESSED retail environment and the relentless migration of readers to digital platforms have prompted further declines in newspaper circulation.
Audit Bureau of Circulation data showed newspaper sales fell by 4.2 per cent in the three months to June 30 compared with same period last year. more…
Shopping at a garage or yard sale might not take as much planning as holding one, but there are ways to optimize your experience.
n Read the classifieds in the newspaper on Friday and Saturday mornings. If there are several that look promising, check city maps and plot your plan. more…
That seems to me a fairly clear proposition: as Twitter becomes the place for people to discover news about the things that matter to them, it’s becoming a kind of local/niche news 2.0. And if Twitter is the local news 2.0, it stands to become the next place to house the category that local news monetizes best: classified ads. more…
Job advertisements edged up again in April, marking a year of consecutive monthly increases, according to a leading survey.
The ANZ survey showed newspaper and internet job ads rose by one per cent during the month, and 20.5 per cent year-on-year. more…
Gone are the days where you could reach anyone and everyone by putting an ad in your local newspaper. As technology becomes a bigger part of our lives, the poor old classifieds limps on.
Don’t get me wrong, traditional classifieds still has its place, but the size of the market that you can reach is getting smaller by the day. more…
The modest recovery in ad spending over the course of 2010 did not benefit newspapers, which suffered yet another round of ad revenue declines in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the Newspaper Association of America.
Indeed, the rate of loss appeared basically unchanged over the last three quarters of 2010 more…
In talking about the Dallas Morning News’ plans to begin charging for digital content next month, Jim Moroney is surprisingly candid about the decision and the economics of the industry. When the publisher of the News told his staff about the decision, he said they must be prepared to be ridiculed and vilified for putting their content behind a paywall.
“This is a big risk “” I’m not confident we’re going to succeed,” Moroney told me. “But we’ve got to try something. We’ve got to try different things.” more…
WikiLeaks claimed that the WikiLeaks website is undergoing massive cyber attack attempts at the moment. WikiLeaks is about to publish more classified documents today. “We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack.” said WikiLeaks in a tweet.
WikiLeaks also said that even if the website goes down, the documents will be published through newspapers. Today’s release of classified documents may harm the US relationship with its allies. The cyber attack is suspected to be initiated by the United States to prevent those classified documents from going public. United States had previously asked WikiLeaks to halt the release of documents today as it may “endanger people’s lives.” WikiLeaks already released about 400 k files on the Iraq war with proof of human rights violation by US troops and its allies. more…
News Corp is taking the iPad very seriously as a new way to distribute the news. The media giant is taking it so seriously that it is developing a new publication called the Daily which will only be available on the iPad (no print edition, no Website). News Corp is hiring 100 journalists for this iPad newspaper and is reportedly working with engineers on loan from Apple to make it shine.
The last time a big media company hired so many journalists to launched a splashy new publication was Conde Nast’s Portfolio magazine, which was more of a print venture and didn’t survive. more…
