All entries tagged: consolidation
With ad revenue up 35%, Gawker Media returns to pageview bonuses and plans “checkbook journalism”
Eight months ago, Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton was predicting a 40-percent drop in U.S. advertising and paring back accordingly: He laid off 19 writers and, by selling some blogs and consolidating others, shrank his blogging empire from 13 titles to 9. Well, that dire forecast hasn’t quite come to pass — least of all [...]
Morning Links: December 12, 2008
— Barry Ritholz writes about Newsweek’s plans to become more like The Economist. He points out the tension inherent in the shift:
…what’s unique about the Economist is that it speaks with one editorial voice. There are no bylines at the Economist…Newsweek, on the other hand, is [a] magazine that can barely contain its internal [...]
