Gannett

Gannett 3Q Results: Revenues Down, But Better Than Expected - Posted October 19, 2009
Gannett Co., the publisher of USA TODAY, announced its third quarter results this morning and, as promised, they beat analysts' projections. However, the company did post a 18.4 percent decrease in net operating revenues compared to the same period last year, and earnings per share were down 55.1 percent. Operating expenses also... [FishBowlNY]

Gannett 3Q Results: Revenues Down, But Better Than Expected - Posted October 19, 2009
Gannett Co., the publisher of USA TODAY, announced its third quarter results this morning and, as promised, they beat analysts' projections. However, the company did post a 18.4 percent decrease in net operating revenues compared to the same period last year, and earnings per share were down 55.1 percent. Operating expenses also... [FishBowlNY]

Gannett 3Q Results: Revenues Down, But Better Than Expected - Posted October 19, 2009
Gannett Co., the publisher of USA TODAY, announced its third quarter results this morning and, as promised, they beat analysts' projections. However, the company did post a 18.4 percent decrease in net operating revenues compared to the same period last year, and earnings per share were down 55.1 percent. Operating expenses also... [FishBowlNY]

Meghan McCain|Publicist Poll|Dubow Returns To Gannett|Robinson Visits Boston|NBCU Improves Earnings - Posted October 16, 2009
WebNewser: Meghan McCain fights back against comments about her breasts in a Twitter pic with a column on The Daily Beast. PRNewser: Interesting poll: Which Tactic Did You Employ the Last Time You Released Big News? 48 percent say "Posted on a wire and pitched the release." The New York Times: Craig Dubow... [FishBowlNY]

Meghan McCain|Publicist Poll|Dubow Returns To Gannett|Robinson Visits Boston|NBCU Improves Earnings - Posted October 16, 2009
WebNewser: Meghan McCain fights back against comments about her breasts in a Twitter pic with a column on The Daily Beast. PRNewser: Interesting poll: Which Tactic Did You Employ the Last Time You Released Big News? 48 percent say "Posted on a wire and pitched the release." The New York Times: Craig Dubow... [FishBowlNY]

USA Has Record Summer|No Ratings Slump For Fox News|Politico Continues To Grow|Gannett Consolidates Iowa, Indiana Facilities|OK! Lowers Rate Base - Posted September 2, 2009
Broadcasting & Cable: As the cable nets report their summer-ending ratings records, USA has emerged as a star. It had the best summer for any cable network since measurements have been kept. Mediaite: There's no summer news slump for Fox News. The cable news net had its best ratings of 2009 in... [FishBowlNY]

USA Has Record Summer|No Ratings Slump For Fox News|Politico Continues To Grow|Gannett Consolidates Iowa, Indiana Facilities|OK! Lowers Rate Base - Posted September 2, 2009
Broadcasting & Cable: As the cable nets report their summer-ending ratings records, USA has emerged as a star. It had the best summer for any cable network since measurements have been kept. Mediaite: There's no summer news slump for Fox News. The cable news net had its best ratings of 2009 in... [FishBowlNY]

Journal News Sacks Business News Staff, Rehires Cartoonist - Posted August 28, 2009
Earlier this week, we learned that Gannett-owned Westchester paper The Journal News was completing its restructuring this week by giving transitional pay packages to employees who chose not to reapply for jobs at the paper. Today, Talking Biz News, a business journalism blog, exclusively reports that the Journal News' entire business staff... [FishBowlNY]

Gannett's Westchester Paper Wraps Up Restructuring Process - Posted August 26, 2009
Two weeks after announcing a massive restructuring that required employees in the editorial and advertising departments to reapply for their jobs, Gannett-owned Journal News is completing its transition this week. The paper's publisher Michael Fisch told Gannetoid.com, a blog that covers all things Gannett, that those employees who chose not to participate... [FishBowlNY]

Gannett-Owned Paper's Restructuring Requires Staffers To Reapply For Jobs - Posted August 13, 2009
In the past year, it feels like media companies have tried everything to save money and enact cutbacks. But this week there is a newspaper that is doing something completely different. The Journal News, a Westchester County-based Gannett-owned paper serving the lower Hudson River Valley in New York, laid off 57 employees... [FishBowlNY]

On The Menu: Gannett Might Be Bankrupt, But HuffPo's Expanding - Posted June 23, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, GalleyCat's Jason Boog and editorial director Rebecca Fox barreled through technical difficulties to discuss some breaking media headlines of the day. This morning, Rebecca and Jason discussed news that USA TODAY publisher Gannett might have to declare bankruptcy and the launch of The... [FishBowlNY]

On The Menu: Gannett Might Be Bankrupt, But HuffPo's Expanding - Posted June 23, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, GalleyCat's Jason Boog and editorial director Rebecca Fox barreled through technical difficulties to discuss some breaking media headlines of the day. This morning, Rebecca and Jason discussed news that USA TODAY publisher Gannett might have to declare bankruptcy and the launch of The... [FishBowlNY]

USA TODAY Cuts Ad Staff - Posted May 28, 2009
Yesterday, our colleagues at MediaJobsDaily reported exclusively that three ad sales reps in USA TODAY's New York office and one in Chicago lost their jobs on May 13, which a spokesperson from the newspaper confirmed. The layoffs come as a surprise since USA TODAY's parent company Gannett required staff to take furloughs... [FishBowlNY]

USA TODAY Cuts Ad Staff - Posted May 28, 2009
Yesterday, our colleagues at MediaJobsDaily reported exclusively that three ad sales reps in USA TODAY's New York office and one in Chicago lost their jobs on May 13, which a spokesperson from the newspaper confirmed. The layoffs come as a surprise since USA TODAY's parent company Gannett required staff to take furloughs... [FishBowlNY]

MediaNews Memo Continues Online Pay Content Discussion - Posted May 13, 2009
Yesterday, Romanesko published a memo by executives from national newspaper publisher MediaNews Group. The memo outlined the company's new interactive strategy, as devised by 22 MediaNews execs. Like many other newspaper companies, MediaNews is facing a decline in print circulation and interactive revenue growth, so its leaders have been trying to... [FishBowlNY]

How Much Did Your Favorite Fortune 500 Media Company Lose? - Posted April 21, 2009
The story of today is The New York Times Co.'s disastrous first quarter results, but it's not the only media outlet dealing with immense loses. Over at paidContent.org (which cashed in during 2008), Rory Maher put together a list of media companies on the Fortune 500 list that struggled during the... [FishBowlNY]

Lesser of Two Evils: Media Companies Explore Alternatives to Laying Off - Posted January 15, 2009
Not that long ago news that major media companies were mandating unpaid weeks off and significant salary cuts would have been greeted with outrage. These days, while not great news, one is tempted to breathe a sigh of relief: it's better than being laid off! And it certainly seems... [FishBowlNY]

Gannett Layoffs: If You Can't Beat'em, Write About Them - Posted December 3, 2008
How does the saying go? When handed lemons make lemonade! Over at All Things D Peter Kafka is writing about the phenomenon of laid off reporters reporting on their own layoffs. At the Gannett Blog former Gannett employee Jim Hopkins has rounded up fellow un-employees (and there is... [FishBowlNY]