MediaNews Group
Summary
MediaNews Group, based in Denver, Colorado, is one of the largest newspaper companies in the United States. It is privately owned and operates 56 daily newspapers in 12 states, with combined daily and Sunday circulation of approximately 2.4 million and 2.7 million, respectively. The company also owns KTVA, a CBS affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska, and radio stations in Texas. The company's chairman is Gary Wright and its chief executive officer and vice chairman is founder William Dean Singleton. The president is Jody Lodovic.Singleton founded MediaNews Group in 1983. Singleton was a pioneer in "clustering"—developing groups of newspapers that centralized a variety of functions, including production, ad sales, business operations and, in some cases, editorial.
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Media app updates: Future plc and Digital First Media take opposite approaches to the new digital platforms; RetailMeNot adds AirPrint to coupon mobile app
A large number of media app updates were issued last night and this morning. One of the media companies updating its portfolio of app is Future plc. The UK and US magazine company uses its own platform, FutureFolio, to build and launch its magazine apps – the platform allows for both native and replica edition apps.
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Press Publish 6: Rick Edmonds of Poynter on paywalls, print days, and the economics of newspapers
It’s Episode 6 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest this week is Rick Edmonds, Poynter’s media business analyst, and our topic is the business outlook for American newspapers.
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Morning Brief: Apple stock gets savaged because analysts are fools; newspaper and magazine app updates; online subscription company Piano Media appoints CTO
Once again Apple has reported record revenue and earnings, and once again the stock is getting hammered in after hours (and now pre-hours) trading. Why? Because it is all a game, played by folks who bat under the Mendoza line when it comes to forecasting.
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Digital First newspaper to reduce print frequency
Digital First Media | The Oneida Daily Dispatch The Oneida (N. Y. ) Daily Dispatch will print three days a week beginning next month, owner Digital First Media announced Wednesday.
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12 Apps of Christmas: November – publishers struggle to keep the doors open as print ad pages continue to decline
The Twelve Days of Christmas runs from Christmas Day to the evening of January 5th, or Twelfth Night. TNM's 12 Apps of Christmas, which beganlast week, looks at the significant media events and new media apps of 2012. Today we have reached November.
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Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News will launch separate paywalled sites
NetNewsCheck The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News will split from Philly. com in early 2013, Meg Heckman reports. Philly. com general manager Steve Alessi tells Heckman the new sites will have paywalls.
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Washington Post will ‘probably’ introduce a paywall in 2013, reports the paper
The Washington Post | The Wall Street Journal | Poynter After years of resistance and industry debate about a paywall for The Washington Post, the paper reports it “will probably start charging online readers for access to newspaper articles in … Read more.
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Update: Denver Post Colorado Ski Guide
I think it is really important to update the story on The Denver Post's first self-produced tablet edition, Denver Post Colorado Ski Guide (see original post here).
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The Denver Post releases an iPad edition of its Ski Guide; native tablet page designs and features, a first for a company previously dependent on third party vendors
Sometimes a wonderful new tablet edition comes out of nowhere – sometimes the app grabs your attention because of its features and design, sometimes because it comes from an unexpected source.
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Wanderful Media, backed by major media companies, acquires iCircular from the Associated Press
One of the major obstacles to successful digital publishing for newspaper companies is the Sunday circulars which remain popular and prevent many readers from canceling completely their print subscriptions. For many, the big hope of retaining those paid advertising circulars has been iCircular, the mobile ad service from the Associated Press.
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