In the great horse race to see which large U.S. city will first lose its daily newspaper altogether, Denver has now taken a quantum leap forward into the frontrunner pack with the announcement today that EW Scripps is shuttering the Rocky Mountain News. While the city still has the Denver Post, that paper is in [...]
In December of 2007, I made some predictions for 2008, one of which centered around a major metro market in the U.S. losing its daily newspaper altogether. While the timing may have been a little early, there is little doubt that it will come true in 2009. The only question that remains is which city [...]
While everyone knew that it was only a matter of time, it is still remarkable to witness the incredible, rapidly accelerating decimation taking place in the daily newspaper industry. Like watching the demolition of a Las Vegas casino from the 50’s, the countdown on setting off the explosives laced throughout the daily newspaper industry has [...]
The pace of stories about appearing everywhere about the death of the dailies is reaching a fevered pitch, and everyone, it seems, has an opinion about what will and will not work to save the newspapers from an inevitable demise. The following are just a sample of the deluge of stories over the past few [...]
For the 2nd straight month, LinkUp has reported that more new job listings were in the Banking & Financial Services industry than any other vertical category. For the month, new job listings in the Banking & Financial Services sector rose by 11,380 listings or 24%. This was even larger than the 9,904 new job listings [...]
Somewhat surprisingly, LinkUp’s January jobs report shows that the worst may be over for the U.S. job market. While the month did show further declines in the number of jobs available in the U.S., the rate of decline is lower than it has been in recent months. New jobs posted to company websites dropped 1%, [...]
Much like the Lego Obama inauguration, Christoph Niemann combines two of my favorite things in rendering aspects of the New York City experience in Lego form. Absolutely brilliant. (Thanks Mo for the link).
A few of my favorites…
And having at least a portion of our business centered around freely distributed weekly jobs newspapers, I have to [...]
As usual, I have fallen behind on my posts and am resorting to the easy (and somewhat lazy) tactic of posting headlines that caught my eye over the past few weeks.
• As if print media didn’t have it tough enough these days, distributors are clamoring for a price increase to get magazines onto the newsstands. [...]