Brian Tierney, the boss of the recently bankrupt Philadelphia newspapers, vowed last week he would "never close" the Philly Daily News. But he never said he wouldn't desperately rebrand it to save a nickel! See, now the Daily News will now be released as "an edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer." Bu...

I was unable to attend Tierney’s Wharton Leadership Lunch at the University of Pennsylvania.  Fortunately, I am a close friend with someone who did.  This anonymous writer is well grounded in the disciplines of business, politics, economics, and the business of journalism. These are his thou...

Yesterday Google announced that they will be placing ads on Google News’ search results in the U.S.  This means if you search for keywords such as the iPhone or the Kindle, you will notice results for sponsored links from websites such as BlackBerry.com, att.com, Amazon.com, and SonyStyle.com...

Bankruptcy in the real world isn’t like Monopoly. In the real world, filing Chapter 11 is a way to protect a company from its creditors while reorganizing. In Monopoly, on the other hand, nobody ever reaches bankruptcy because people quit playing when they realize it’s three hours in and...

Bankruptcy in the real world isn’t like Monopoly. In the real world, filing Chapter 11 is a way to protect a company from its creditors while reorganizing. In Monopoly, on the other hand, nobody ever reaches bankruptcy because people quit playing when they realize it’s three hours in and...

A lot to write about the bankruptcy filing of Philadelphia Media Holdings, but I’m trying to think first for once. (About the content. The jokes are already done.) I needed to write about this, though. Daily News editor Michael Days sent out a Q&A the company sent out to its employees. An...

I love the moxie and the passion. As Editor and Publisher headlined it this morning: " Newspaper Execs Launch Group to 'Fight Back'. The fight is good, the punches though a bit awry. We're just at the beginning of schemes (in the British sense) being offered to save American journalism. Today alone,...

There’s a big ol’ Steve Volk article in February’s Philadelphia magazine about Brian Tierney and the Inquirer, and how newspapers are dying if not dead, and Philebrity and Phawker, and Will Bunch and norgs. Norgs! I know. I feel like I’ve wandered into a time portal to late 2...

Classified advertisements began moving online 15 years ago, blunting revenues and tolling the bellicose fog horn of “caution ahead� for newspapers. The warnings went unheeded, and with the development of online readership, salvaging the wreck from sites like Craigslist was abandoned. Over a deca...

An old pro recently asked, "Is there anything newspapers can do to turn it around at this point?, that's what my friends are asking me." My reply, well, today, no, if you mean turning the business back up, on a dime. There's a bright future out there, earned by doing a number of new (and old) things...