Media notes
Posted on January 18, 2008
Filed Under: Work
Tagged: blogging, chicago tribune, classifieds, newspapers, nyt, seth godin
A couple of interesting links:
Chicago Tribune Eliminates Print Help-Wanted Ads On Weekdays
Editor and Publisher notes that the Chicago Tribune is eliminating help-wanted ads from the newspaper during the week. Marc Andreessen calls it the first step towards shutting down the print edition of the newspaper.
The NYT makes an effort at liveblogging Macworld
Kudos to the NYT for getting into the game but they fall way short of the mark. Techcrunch schools them on how it should be done.
Editors
Seth Godin talks about movies. Can the same case be made for newspapers? I think so. The Miami Herald actually considered outsourcing their editors to India. Fortunately that deal is off. Yelvington discusses it in more depth.
Weather Channel for sale
Posted on January 03, 2008
Filed Under: Work
Tagged: landmark, nyt, weather channel, yahoo! newspaper consortium
The Weather Channel is for sale if anyone has 5 billion sitting around. Landmark is selling off this nice little asset that brought 32 million unique users in November, according to the Nielsen/NetRatings data posted in the NYT. That’s bigger than Facebook (who knew people are more interested in pollen and mold counts that what their friends were doing).
Suitors include the usual suspects: Fox/News Corporation, AOL/Time Warner.
Personally, I’d love to see Yahoo! pick it up and eventually work it into the Yahoo! newspaper consortium deal so we can play with the weather data at MG.
Yahoo! is already tied into local news, employment classifieds, search, and the online advertising aspects of our business. In terms of site traffic, weather is the only “big thing” that’s missing from the model.