Yahoo partners with papers — but what does it leave the papers?
Yahoo announced a partnership with a consortium of more than 150 newspapers, in an effort to let the struggling newspaper industry find greater distribution for things like their job ads.
Yahoo struck the deal several major newspaper companies, each of which own scores of newspapers, including MediaNews (publisher of Silicon Valley’s Mercury News), Hearst (publisher of the SF Chronicle), and Cox Newspapers.
The Mercury News summary of the deal is here. Note that CareerBuilder, the site the… Continue Reading
Newspapers can’t innovate — need “Switzerland Inc.” to survive
Tom Mohr ran the online properties of Knight Ridder, the second largest newspaper company in the country, until it was sold to McClatchy this year.
He has just written a piece for Editor & Publisher, which is the equivalent of a Clarion call for action for the newspaper industry. The nation’s struggling newspapers desperately need to join forces and form a single company (which he calls “Switzerland Inc.”) to help them survive in the new… Continue Reading