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Ken Doctor is a news industry analyst and the author of Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get (St. Martin’s Press). He also runs the book’s companion website, newsonomics.com. He is an analyst for the research firm Outsell and a regular consultant and speaker. He spent 21 years with Knight Ridder in a variety of roles, including as managing editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and as a vice president of Knight Ridder Digital.

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November 14, 2019

Newsonomics: With its merger approved, the new Gannett readies the cost-cutting knife

What was once expected to be $200 million in annual cost savings has now grown to $400 million or more. But how much blood is left to be drawn from this stone?

November 13, 2019

Newsonomics: CEO Mark Thompson on offering more and more New York Times (and charging more for it)

The “failing” New York Times’ news operation now employs more than 1,700 journalists, up nearly 50 percent from a decade ago. It has nearly 5 million subscribers, triple its print-era peak. Now it’s preparing to up the price.

November 8, 2019

Newsonomics: Nikkei’s Tsuneo Kita: “Without the FT, it wouldn’t have been possible for us to transform ourselves as we have”

“On-the-ground collaboration, on-the-ground communication, on-the-ground exchange are all getting to be more like business as usual.”

November 7, 2019

Newsonomics: How the Financial Times is building mini-brands within the global FT

“The point is they have personality. They have character. They’re engaging, and they have really inside stuff. So, they’re more than newsletters. They are mini-brands that have events and forums around them — but the newsletter is almost the spearhead.”

November 6, 2019

Newsonomics: Four years in to their surprise marriage, what has the FT done for Nikkei, and vice versa?

The predicted culture clashes seem to have been mostly avoided, and they’re ready to expand their reach in Europe, Asia, and everywhere else.

October 26, 2019

Newsonomics: Will Facebook’s new news tab be a milestone or millstone?

The money is welcome, and the potential audience is too. But does this push publishers away from being destinations and toward being suppliers?

October 25, 2019

Why I’m starting a company to build out a new model for local news in the 2020s

With Lookout Local, our longtime news industry columnist Ken Doctor is going to apply what he’s learned to try to fill the growing void in local reporting.

October 9, 2019

Newsonomics: The Gannett–GateHouse merger is really happening, but expect to see more than 10% of jobs cut off the top

The number of employees soon to be cut at the No. 1 U.S. newspaper chain is about the same number as the No. 2 chain has in total. But newsrooms should mostly be spared — for now.

August 9, 2019

Newsonomics: The perils — and promises — of New Gannett

What will the largest local news company need to do and be to be successful in the 2020s? Neither Gannett nor Gatehouse has offered any big vision of what that is, or could be, even fueled by new money.

August 4, 2019

Newsonomics: The GateHouse/Gannett newspaper megamerger could be announced as soon as Monday morning

The merger of the United States’ No. 1 and No. 2 newspaper chains will likely spark a new wave of consolidation among its smaller competitors. But will the potential cost savings be eaten up by debt payments to financiers?

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