Newspaper company CEOs will be the first to tell you a new round of consolidation won’t solve their problems. But it might give them another year or two of breathing room.
Rupert Murdoch owning the New York Daily News? A McCormick controlling the Chicago Tribune again? The L.A. Times pulling a Washington Post, aiming to run the industry’s underlying infrastructure? A lot of change is coming soon.
More than 200 newspapers are up for sale — as one group, in clusters, or one by one. Where they go could have a big impact on how the industry will look in the coming years.
It’s a fresh start for a new set of newspaper companies, built on financial engineering — but that start comes without the safety of a revenue cushion.
Rupert Murdoch might be thinking about putting his British newspapers into a trust. Why haven’t we seen more innovation in how news organizations get owned and governed?
Langeveld, Martin. "The shakeup at MediaNews: Why it could be the leadup to a massive newspaper consolidation." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 20 Jan. 2011. Web. 1 Dec. 2023.
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Langeveld, M. (2011, Jan. 20). The shakeup at MediaNews: Why it could be the leadup to a massive newspaper consolidation. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 1, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/01/the-shakeup-at-medianews-why-it-could-be-the-leadup-to-a-massive-newspaper-consolidation/
Chicago
Langeveld, Martin. "The shakeup at MediaNews: Why it could be the leadup to a massive newspaper consolidation." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 20, 2011. Accessed December 1, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/01/the-shakeup-at-medianews-why-it-could-be-the-leadup-to-a-massive-newspaper-consolidation/.
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