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Monday, September 21, 2009

Newspapers’ Bad News Get Less Bad–But Not by Much

inflating-balloonIs the newspaper advertising slump about to end? Nope. But it’s continuing to get a little bit less awful.

A survey of some of the remaining analysts covering the industry, as well as people who actually work in it, concludes that Q3 ad revenue will be down 25 percent. Awful by any standard except those of this year: Q1 was down 28.3 percent and Q2 was 29 percent.

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Monday, July 6, 2009

The Mystery of the Vanishing Videogame Boom Solved: Gamers Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

pacmanVideogame players are spending more time playing videogames than ever. But that won’t do the videogame business much good unless those players actually start buying new games again.

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Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider. Read more »

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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