http://www.Chainlinks.org News of the newspaper business Copyright 2009 The Newspaper Guild en-us Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:53:27 -0400 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:53:27 -0400 http://sjguild.org/rss/jpg/chainlinks.jpg http://www.Chainlinks.org 140 50 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/McClatchy-2Q-earnings-plunge-apf-4153383502.html?x=0 McClatchy Co.’s second-quarter earnings plunged as the newspaper publisher shouldered higher costs on its debt to buy more time to recover from a bedeviling ad slump. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/McClatchy-2Q-earnings-plunge-apf-4153383502.html?x=0 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/thomson-reuters-q2-profit-slips-8-62148-.aspx News and information provider Thomson Reuters Corp. said Thursday its second-quarter net income fell 8% on weakness in its legal and markets divisions. The company is still recovering from last year’s economic downturn, which put a crimp in budgets at many of the law firms and financial institutions that it counts as customers. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/thomson-reuters-q2-profit-slips-8-62148-.aspx http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/study-newspapers-sink-below-internet-and-tv-as-information-sources-62127-.aspx Newspapers continue to be seen as less important at their primary job — being sources of information — according to the latest edition of the nine-year-old Digital Future Project from the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/study-newspapers-sink-below-internet-and-tv-as-information-sources-62127-.aspx http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=187619 WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange has figured out that on the Internet, being homeless means you don’t have to play by anybody’s rules. http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=187619 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/stockton-record-says-paywall-a-success-so-far-62122-.aspx The Record figured it would lose half its viewership online and unique users, but has lost just between 30 and 35% of its page views and only a quarter of its unique users. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/stockton-record-says-paywall-a-success-so-far-62122-.aspx http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/zell's-not-the-bad-guy-in-tribune-co-'s-collapse-62120-.aspx The exhaustive report of the independent examiner in Tribune Co.’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case doesn’t name names when it charges the 2007 going-private deal may very well have been a "fraudulent conveyance," that is, so overloaded with debt that the Chicago media giant was insolvent from day one. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/zell's-not-the-bad-guy-in-tribune-co-'s-collapse-62120-.aspx http://newsonomics.com/news-flash-circulation-up-1042/ Wow. If the multi-platform strategy — newspapers, online editions, replica e-editions, iPad editions, smartphone editions, holographic ones to come — works, we’ll see circulation reports unlike those ever reported. That’s because ABC, the industry’s Audit Bureau of Circulations, has loosened its counting standards yet again. http://newsonomics.com/news-flash-circulation-up-1042/ http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/'update-circ-accounts-for-nearly-30-of-total-revenue-at-'dallas-morning-news'-parent-a-h-belo-62097-.aspx Circ is really pulling its weight at A.H. Belo Corp. In a conference call with analysts Monday afternoon, Belo executives said revenue from circulation now accounts for 29.2% of total revenue, principally a result of higher subscription prices at its flagship Dallas Morning News. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/'update-circ-accounts-for-nearly-30-of-total-revenue-at-'dallas-morning-news'-parent-a-h-belo-62097-.aspx http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/judge-to-conrad-black-no-canada-for-you-62095-.aspx A federal judge ordered Conrad Black to surrender his passport Friday, meaning the former media mogul can’t return to his home in Canada now that he’s free on $2 million bond. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/judge-to-conrad-black-no-canada-for-you-62095-.aspx http://www.snd.org/2010/07/a-qa-with-gannetts-kate-marymont/ After Gannett recently announced plans to create five centralized centers to handle most of the design demands at its community newspapers, the Society for News Design responded with an open letter on the value of design. http://www.snd.org/2010/07/a-qa-with-gannetts-kate-marymont/