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The drop in magazine advertising pages is continuing as the first quarter ends, and it looks like Q2 will not be better. According to MIN, which tracks advertising pages for major US publications,...
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No printed Wall Street Journal. No printed New York Times, or Newsweek or The New Yorker. That possibility grows more by the day. Hearst, which said it would close it Seattle paper, the...
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According to Reuters, Obama is pushing for a new health-care plan which will take ten years to fully take effect. Reuters says Obama is pushing for quick Wall St. reform. Reuters reports that...
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The final list of Warren Buffett’s year-end stock holdings from Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) are out and we broke them down alphabetically with this being the “S to Z” stock list. ...
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Yesterday, The Washington Post (WPO) and Baltimore Sun said they will start to share content to save money. The newspaper industry’s fortunes are that bad. The Post says that the deal with cover...
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We have outlined the changes in the holdings of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and consolidated these into alphabetical order from "T to Z" for the quarter ended on...
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There are no Wall Street analysts who believe that newspapers will recover from the ongoing financial crisis. Publishers have argued that housing, employment, and car markets were the cause of their...
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These are the last of Warren Buffett’s and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) holdings as of June 30, 2008: Torchmark Corp. (NYSE: TMK) more than 3.51 million shares in multiple lots US Bancorp...
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24/7 Wall St. recently listed The 25 Most Valuable Blogs. Two have been sold. Ars Technica was acquired by Conde Nast for about what we estimated. The 24/7 price tag was $15 million. Alley Insider...
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Gannett (GCI), the country’s largest newspaper company posted its revenue for the May period. Advertising revenue dropped 14.3% to $347 million. This was an acceleration from the year-to-date rate...
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The war for newspapers to stay profitable, and, perhaps long-term, to stay viable has become a race between the fall-off in their print advertising and the increase of their online sales. Based on a...
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After today’s close, we saw the filing showing which stocks Warren Buffett held in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) at the cut off date of March 31, 2008. This is a snapshot of his...
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These are the new combined holdings (alphabetically S-Z) from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) for the period ended December 31, 2007: Sanofi-Aventis (NSE: SNY) 3.569 million...
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The Washington Post Company (WPO) and New York Times (NYT) have been posting very different numbers in their online businesses. While the NYT figures show that its internet operations could offset...
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Those who believe that the newspaper industry is going the way of the Dodo and buggy whip and can’t conceive that enhanced online versions of papers can ever do especially wellought to pay a visit...
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