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The newsonomics of the Koch Brothers and the sales of U.S.’ top metros
It almost makes wary Tribune watchers pine for Rupert Murdoch. In what is shaping up to be the biggest sale of metro U.S. newspapers in history, with six of the top 50 newspapers about to change...
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This Week in Review: Verification and the crowd in Boston, and the Kochs’...
Stemming the misinformation epidemic: As The New York Times’ Brian Stelter pointed out, the media — both old and new — played as large a role in the manhunt that followed last week’s Boston Marathon...
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This Week in Review: Fuzzy math at newspapers, and more opposition to Kochs’...
Newspapers’ digital subscriptions jump: Newspapers’ biannual circulation reports came out this week, and there were a couple of ways to read them. The New York Times went the glass-half-full route,...
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This Week in Review: Howard Kurtz goes under the microscope, and Politico’s...
Kurtz’s rare accountability: Media critic Howard Kurtz’s status was pretty well settled by the end of last week after his disastrously erroneous column earlier in the week — he was fired by The Daily...
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This Week in Review, Spy vs. Spy edition: Backlash against snooping by DOJ...
Outrage at seizure of AP records: The journalism and media world was collectively seething in a way you don’t often see this week after the Associated Press revealed that the U.S. Department of...
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The newsonomics of the Kochs rising — and uprising
It’s official. Charles and David Koch think Warren Buffett may be right. After only sideways confirmation of their interest in buying the Tribune papers, Charles Koch on Wednesday explained the...
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This Week in Review: Bradley Manning and leak ethics, and the future of...
Aiding a publisher as aiding the enemy?: There were quite a few developments on the leaks/government surveillance front this week, led by the revelation that the U.S. National Security Agency is...
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The newsonomics of the Kochs: The impact on the L.A. news landscape
For more background on a potential Koch purchase of Tribune Company newspapers, see Part 1 of this piece. Let’s say that Charles and David Koch are successful in their now-announced quest (“The...
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Tribune’s newspapers will be the latest to be spun off
We’ve all been waiting for the papers — with the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune the two flagships — to be sold off, quite possibly to the Koch brothers. (And they still might be.) So this morning’s...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of Tribune’s detour
Is it a detour of some kind? Is it a deke? Or is it a Koch-around? The big question is why Tribune would go through the time, money, and bother to split the companies when it doesn’t want to be in the...
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The newsonomics of 50/50 and the unchaining of the U.S. press
Asked last week whether he was buying the Star Tribune for business or altruistic reasons, Glen Taylor said a lot in a two-word answer: “50/50.” News observers have parsed and poked at every recent big...
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