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Friday 25 January 2008 Zell removes Tribune's content filtersBy Leah McBride Mensching, Friday 25 January 2008 at 22:31 :: General Sam Zell toured Tribune's business units and found something he did not like: Content filters. In a memo this week to Tribune properties, Zell pointed out how hypocritical it is that those guarding the Fourth Estate were not being allowed to see all of it. At least not on the Internet at work. Foreign buyers close Australia's BulletinBy Leah McBride Mensching, Friday 25 January 2008 at 21:59 :: General News that an Australian institution was closing seemed to come from a very outside source. The announcement that The Bulletin was closing was handed down from Scotsman Adrian MacKenzie, managing partner of Hong Kong private equity fund CVC Asia Pacific, to American Scott Lorson, chief executive of Australian Consolidated Press. The Bulletin, Australia's longest-running magazine, was founded in 1880. Mecom cuts Dutch operation jobsBy Leah McBride Mensching, Friday 25 January 2008 at 21:20 :: Labor & Employment European media group Mecom will cut 80 positions at two of its regional newspapers in the Netherlands, in the southern province of Limburg, Newspaper Innovation reported Friday. Dagblad de Limburger and the Limburgs Dagblad “are household brand names, with a readership of c200,000,” UK-based Mecom states on its Web site. U.S. VOD and DVR households to double by 2011By Erina Lin, Friday 25 January 2008 at 20:38 :: World Digital Media Trends Video on demand, digital video recorders, online video and broadband Internet will all have their base gains by the year of 2011, according to research firm eMarketer. Digital video recorders are the fastest growing. There will be 45.1 million DVR households in the United States by 2011, growing from merely 18.6 million in 2006. Raleigh newspaper to cut, outsource ad jobsBy Leah McBride Mensching, Friday 25 January 2008 at 19:06 :: Labor & Employment As many as 16 advertising positions in the production and display of design ads at The News & Observer will be exported overseas, the Raleigh, North Carolina newspaper announced Thursday. The News & Observer Publishing Company is working with Chicago company Affinity Express, which has production facilities in the Philippines and India, the Associated Press reported Friday. Boston Globe raises newsstand price, job cuts next?By Leah McBride Mensching, Friday 25 January 2008 at 18:39 :: Labor & Employment The Boston Globe will raise its newsstand price from 50 cents to 75 cents beginning Feb. 4, the newspaper announced Friday. The price hike applies to newspapers sold in Greater Boston, as the daily Globe already costs 75 cents beyond 30 miles from the city. |
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