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Tribune Publishing Is Rejecting Gannett’s Latest Offer
Tribune Publishing has decided to reject Gannett’s latest $864 million takeover proposal, but will agree to share confidential information with the U.S. newspaper company, people familiar with the...
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As Facebook Focuses on Video, Engagement for Top Publishers Declines
Over the past year, Facebook has set its sights on becoming a platform for video — in particular live video, something it has been paying a number of media companies to produce, in order to promote its...
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Tribune Media Is Auctioning Off These Businesses With Hopes for $800 Million
Tribune Media, one of the largest U.S. TV station operators, has launched an auction to divest its digital and data business in a sale it hopes will fetch at least $800 million, according to three...
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4,000 Hong Kong Protesters Voice Against China on Bookseller Detentions
Over 4,000 people marched in Hong Kong on Saturday to protest against China’s detention of five booksellers whose shop published gossipy books about Chinese leaders, including President Xi Jinping. The...
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6 Out of 10 Links Shared on Twitter are Never Clicked
A new collaborative study by researchers at Microsoft and Columbia University has found that 59% of URLs shared on Twitter are never clicked--including, it seems, by the people who share them. The...
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Facebook Tweaks the News Feed Algorithm and Media Companies Tremble
This essay originally appeared in Data Sheet, Fortune's daily tech newsletter. Sign up here. The media industry is on some pretty shaky ground these days, with advertising revenue and readers both...
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Snapchat Needs to Figure Out How to Serve Both the Youngs and the Olds
More than almost any other mobile app, Snapchat has developed a reputation for being difficult to use, especially for those over the age of 35--something that many blame on the video sharing app’s...
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Here’s Why E-Book Sales From Major Publishers Are Plummeting
Book publishers are winning in their quixotic war against their own electronic books as sales dropped 11% last year, according to a new report from the industry’s leading trade group. Electronic books...
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Nick Denton Says Giving Up on Reader Comments Is a Big Mistake
Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has a lot of things on his mind right now, not the least of which is the future of his company as it goes through a court-ordered bankruptcy auction--a process sparked...
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Facebook Traffic to U.S. News Sites Has Fallen by Double Digits, Report Says
A leading web analytics company says in a new report that traffic from Facebook to some of the top news publishers declined at double-digit rates in the second quarter of this year. SimilarWeb found...
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Gannett Said to Be Making Another Bid to Acquire Tronc
Newspaper chain Gannett has been trying for months to acquire what used to be Tribune Media, now known as Tronc, but the company has so far rebuffed all attempts to reach a deal. Undeterred, Gannett...
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Sorry Mark Zuckerberg, But Facebook Is Definitely a Media Company
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently denied that his company is a media company, which no doubt came as a surprise to many people who have gotten used to thinking of it that way. “No, we are a tech...
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Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp Steps Down As New Chief Promises Growth Is Coming
Media conglomerate Time Inc., which owns a stable of magazines including Fortune and TIME, is looking to former Fox executive Rich Battista to help step up the company’s evolution from print to...
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This New Chartbeat Feature Helps Publishers Figure Out Those Facebook Spikes
Many online media companies still see their websites as cornerstones of their business, because that’s where they make most of their money. But more and more, people are reading news stories and...
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The New York Times Elevated a New Generation to Its Top Publishing Ranks
The New York Times Co. said it had appointed Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, the son of the newspaper’s chairman and publisher, as its deputy publisher. The appointment would position Sulzberger to succeed...
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The New York Times Scrambles to Avoid Print Advertising Cliff
The fact that print-based advertising revenue is declining is no surprise to anyone following the media industry. But what is hitting publishers like the New York Times particularly hard is that this...
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Time Inc. Said to Be Evaluating Takeover Interest, Partnerships
After receiving an unsolicited takeover offer, magazine publisher Time Inc. has hired financial advisers to field potential bids for the company and investigate other strategic moves, according to a...
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Medium’s Future Looks Like a Blank Page After Killing Ad Business
One thing that has remained constant during Medium’s five years as an online publisher is that no one can seem to figure out exactly what it is. Is it a blogging platform where anyone can write? Yes....
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Here’s Another Reason For Media Companies to be Wary of Facebook
When it comes to the mainstream media, what Facebook wants is usually what Facebook gets, because it commands the attention of more than 1.5 billion people. And what the giant social network has wanted...
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Verizon, Macy’s, and Time Inc.: The Digital Revolution’s Latest Targets
The digital revolution is playing out the same way Mike went bankrupt in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: "Gradually and then suddenly." For all of the revolution's world-changing effects so far, it's...
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