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A terrifying story about the newspaper business
Outside Bagel World in Peabody There’s an absolutely terrifying story about the newspaper business making the rounds today, and it’s not the one about print circulation falling another 10.6 percent....
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A double whammy for the newspaper business
In my latest for the Guardian, I argue that the long-predicted newspaper-circulation death spiral now under way wouldn’t be such a big deal if online advertisers weren’t fleeing newspaper Web sites as...
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Want to advertise on Media Nation?
If you are a local — or maybe non-local — business that would like to boost your visibility by advertising on Media Nation, please drop me a line at dkennedy56 {at} gmail {dot} com. I’d love to have...
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Calling all advertisers
I am renewing my request for an advertiser or advertisers who’d be interested in the top-of-the-page banner. Would I accept political ads? Yes. In fact, the vertical Google ad slot features politics...
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How news execs can avoid the online ad meltdown
Writing in Technology Review, the noted media critic Michael Wolff says Facebook is doomed — and is going to take the Web down with it. The reason: online advertising, ubiquitous and not particularly...
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Boston Globe fun-with-numbers edition
Ken Doctor’s analysis of the “newsonomics” of The Boston Globe’s pending sale continues to yield rich insights. One part I find particularly interesting is his estimate that the Globe’s natural ceiling...
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Up, up and away with that weird, obtrusive JetBlue ad
I’ve held off on writing about the obtrusive JetBlue ad that ran in Thursday’s Boston Globe because I wasn’t sure what I thought of it. It’s hard to have a hot take without an opinion. On the one...
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Major news outlets are running a tobacco company’s ads on their websites
More than two decades after cigarette ads began disappearing from newspapers, major news organizations are running ads on their websites from tobacco giant Philip Morris touting the company’s research...
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One of my correspondents urged me to look at the print edition of today’s Boston Globe and count up the ads. I did — and I didn’t even have to use the fingers on two hands. There were two quarter-page...
View ArticleCaveat emptor
“It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.” — Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writing in Abrams v. United States. I’ve turned on WordPress’ advertising feature in case you were wondering...
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