Posts Tagged ‘ newspapers ’

Newspaper Sales Plummet & Online Won’t Save Them

Sep 5th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

Newspapers sales are plummeting and, along with them, newspaper revenues.
Total newspaper advertising revenues fell by $3 billion in the first six months of this year to $18.8 billion, the lowest level in a dozen years, according to data from the Newspaper Association of America.
While the decline of print sales is on ongoing trend that you [...]



Internet Media Rapidly Destroying Value Of Newspapers

May 7th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Internet TV

We’ve reported previously that newspapers are losing advertisers to Internet media, that young people are abandoning newspapers for Internet media and that newspaper revenue is tanking.
The result of these trends is that the value of traditional newspapers is in a freefall:

Avista, the PE-fund that bought the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for $530 million in late 2006, has [...]