From PaidContent:
as the earnings for the NYTCO, Gannett and Tribune have shown, interactive ad dollars are not growing as expected (Dow Jones and the smaller Journal Register Company represent the exceptions). And as WaPO prepares to release its Q1 earnings, the CEO of its online division tells the WSJ that online ad growth is slowing [...]

Some great advice from Charlie O’Donnell:
I think marketing & PR firms, VC firms, anyone who has any kind of business interest whatsover in social media needs to mandate that the decision makers on your staff, right on up to the top, all “walk the floor”.   Maybe Fridays should be “social media days” where the [...]

PaidContent’s Rafat Ali has the scoop on the future of Topix, the local news aggregator and search site owned by several competing newspaper companies.  Apparently, as they rebrand from Topix.net to Topix.com, they will also be changing the focus of their site from software-selected content to human editors and citizen journalism.
The homepage will become a [...]

A bidding war for a newspaper company?  Who would’ve thunk it?  Today’s New York Times reports:
The drama for control of the Tribune Company intensified last night as two Los Angeles billionaires put in a last-minute bid, topping an offer from the Chicago real estate magnate, Sam Zell, by a dollar a share.
The two billionaires, Ronald [...]