A friend forwarded me the following message in light of the news that The New York Times is raising rates:
Newspapers just don’t get it. They have slipping ad sales….so what do they do…they increase newsstand prices……stupid?
Stupid? Probably. Eventually. Monster recently found out raising rates wasn’t such a great idea, for example. Monster, however, […]

In typical we’re-a-newspaper-online mentality, visitors to Cleveland.com - and I assume its brethren - are greeted with the following before getting to the meat of the site:

Here’s the funny part: After talking to a company exec recently, guess what the No. 1 zip code is? If you guessed a Cleveland-area number, you’d be wrong. If […]

Pretty cool … this blog was featured in the March 12, 2007 edition of BusinessWeek.

So Monster ‘Bored’ has partnered with another newspaper. In light of CareerBuilder’s long standing relationship with print and Yahoo!’s recent move, the Big Three and the nation’s newspapers are looking a lot like a night out with Britney, Lindsay and Paris. Party!
And much like a night out with the “Brit Pack,” there could be a […]

A MediaPost report entitled Online Job Ad Revenues Surpass Print brings another rainy day to the nation’s newspapers. Why? Advertising online outpaced print by the tune of $5.9 billion to $5.4 billion in 2006.
Much of the online growth is expected to come from small and medium-sized businesses posting local ads for hourly and part-time workers. […]

According to MuniWireless, the city of Portland, Ore. is getting free WiFi, thanks to Microsoft. Google is following a similar strategy, already giving free WiFi to the city of Mountain View, Calif.
This is clearly a trend that will continue, as free WiFi means a loyal userbase and more eyeballs for ads.
So why aren’t newspapers following […]

Newspaper-owned Topix.net is quietly getting into the free online classifieds game. As you may recall, Topix is basically a bunch of newspapers who hope they can create an online presence competitive to Craigslist, Google Base, Oodle, etc.
First glimpse in my local market of Cleveland shows a pretty sad collection of jobs. I didn’t look at […]