23 abril 2007

Notícias da frente

Magazines sticking to paper: Digital is the buzzword of all media these days, and the measure of how forward thinking one's company is, is measured by the extent to which it embraces the Internet and other new technologies, often at the expense of the traditional product.
But the sizable investments of smart, shrewd folks such as Mansueto and Newhouse suggest that print is not entirely passe. They're not ignoring the Internet.

India, China Newspaper Shares Surge as U.S. Media Nosedives: The newspaper business is bad and getting worse, billionaire Warren Buffett said last month. He was talking about U.S. papers, which are among the investments of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the holding company he heads.
Shares of publishers outside the U.S. are another story.

U.S. newspaper Web sites deliver slower growth: U.S. newspaper publishers are betting the Internet is the key to their survival, but a worsening classified advertising slump is hampering efforts to make good on their digital strategies.
Some publishers reporting first-quarter financial results this week said online ad revenue growth rates slowed.

Stop the press: the internet is now the first draft of history: Suddenly, the internet looks less like a threat to 'old media', and more like a resource it can easily exploit. That is partly because established outlets have marched online.