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Ken DoctorApril 18, 2019

Newsonomics: Bryan Goldberg wants to build Bustle into the “Meredith of the digital age”

“I think the hard part for something like Esquire or Harper’s Bazaar in digital — even to some extent Vogue — is that you get into the scale game. Digital demands greater scale. I just don’t know how many men are trying to figure out if corduroy is back in fashion.”

Ken DoctorApril 18, 2019

Newsonomics: The newspaper industry is thirsty for liquidity as it tries to merge its way out of trouble

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.

Ken DoctorMarch 28, 2019

Newsonomics: Patrick Soon-Shiong on the L.A. Times’ transmedia future, french-fry tweets, and modernizing the “newspaper” business

The billionaire owner on unions (“I think they did the unionize thing out of desperation”), esports (“We must start fighting for the 16-year-olds all the way to the 30-year-olds, because that’s not our demographic”), and hiring the intern.

Ken DoctorMarch 27, 2019

Newsonomics: Inside the new L.A. Times, a 100-year vision that bets on tech and top-notch journalism

It’s a few years behind its East Coast brethren in New York and Washington. But tens of millions in new investment and ambitious digital plans are showing a path back to its former prominence — and beyond.

Ken DoctorFebruary 22, 2019

Newsonomics: Can The New York Times avoid a Trump Slump and sign up 10 million paying subscribers?

And what lessons can the rest of the industry draw from the Times’ outsized success?

Ken DoctorFebruary 11, 2019

Newsonomics: In the Consolidation Games, enter the bankers

Alden’s offer to buy Gannett looks less and less credible. But can Tribune and Gannett suss out the merger that might be necessary to stop it?

Ken DoctorFebruary 1, 2019

Newsonomics: Amid screaming alarms, consolidation mania turns feverish

In an industry where expense reduction is the prime strategy, much more consolidation is likely on the way. Little regulation prevents it, and the financials all favor it.

Hot potato, hot potato: Alden Global Capital now reportedly wants to offload Digital First Media on Gannett

Ken DoctorJanuary 18, 2019

Newsonomics: Tribune’s Thursday night surprise rescrambles the consolidation puzzle

Could the moves presage the major rollup that’s been increasingly talked about in America’s now-in-play, ever-struggling daily newspaper industry?

Ken DoctorJanuary 14, 2019

Newsonomics: Let the 2019 Consolidation Games begin! First up: Alden seeks to swallow Gannett

America’s most hated newspaper company wants to bring its special brand of cost-cutting and newsroom-gutting to about 100 more cities.

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