Sentences with phrase «of newspaper companies»

At that time, only 140 papers were available because many of the newspaper companies were very resistant to the entire digital space.

Scribd has partnered with a number of newspaper companies to offer individual articles on their digital platform.

Not exact matches

Bezos also has interests outside of Amazon, including investments in his privately owned space company Blue Origin, which successfully launched its first spacecraft in 2015, and The Washington Post, the newspaper he bought in 2013.

The businessman is also director of Walton Enterprises, the holding company for the Walton family's assets, and chairman of Community Publishers, an Arkansas - based newspaper firm.

But media companies that own newspapers and radio or TV stations do not have this kind of protection.

After allegations of phone hacking, fraud and general nastiness surfaced at its highly - profitable News of the World newspaper, the company decided that the best way to starve the scandal of oxygen was to shutter the 168 - year - old muckraking juggernaut.

Buffett's investments in newspaper companies including Graham Holdings (ghc)(former owner of the Washington Post) and Lee Enterprises (lee)(which publishes dozens of regional papers), are among his worst performers, with Graham's shares down 24 % and Lee's down 30 % over the past year.

As the newspaper notes, the promotion of a genetically modified crop's potential health effects by a company is a new development.

Mogo signed a deal with Postmedia Network Canada (TSX: PNC - B) in January that will see the media company provide $ 50 million in advertising space in its newspapers and digital properties over three years in exchange for a cut of Mogo's revenue.

Power Corp., through its Square Victoria Communications Group subsidiary, and together with the corporate parent companies of the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail newspapers owns The Canadian Press.

The company's AI product, Quill, can essentially turn numbers into stories: The box score from a baseball game becomes a written report of that game, for example, detailing player performance as if you were reading a sportswriter's coverage in the newspaper.

Tiny circle of trust: The newspaper was sold by New Media Investment Group (NEWM), which is a holding company for newspaper publisher Gatehouse Media.

Along with all of the usual media - industry problems — striking partnerships with newspapers and magazines, sharing advertising revenue, et cetera — the company now has to deal with the potential censorship of its content by external entities such as China.

«I almost think of us as a logistics company,» Uber CEO Travis Kalanick told a Chinese newspaper in July.

«Everybody has been reading magazines and newspapers for hundreds of years,» says Joseph Melohn, a company investor.

According to the state - run People's Daily newspaper, citing an article in the Beijing Times, 15 Chinese real estate companies projected a loss for 2015, accounting for nearly 30 % of developers that have already released their preliminary earnings reports.

Moreover, it's being prepped for a counter-strike under the leadership of former Sun Media boss Paul Godfrey, who now heads Postmedia, a company forged by the recent $ 1.1 - billion creditor acquisition of Canwest's distressed newspaper assets.

«It is exciting to see that Oculus, a vibrant and leading - edge company, appreciates both the technology and the strength of the ecosystem that the InfiniLED team sits in,» Tyndall chief executive Dr. Kieran Drain told the Irish newspaper.

She transformed the newspaper into a multimedia content company and was named Chairman and CEO of ImpreMedia in 2010.

Without fail, I start every morning off with a cup of «proper English tea,» even when traveling in San Francisco, and leisurely check the daily newspaper headlines on my tablet, before diving into email and catching up on the company Chatter feed.

A newspaper report earlier this year suggested the company was talking to the likes of Bell and Rogers about partnerships.

Defenders of the paper, however, have argued that the Sulzbergers have kept the Times from being swept under amid all the turmoil going on in the media world and have preserved the quality and purpose of the newspaper because of their personal commitment to it — and the view that they are merely stewards of the company maintaining it for future generations.

In June, Wheeler proposed retaining the existing rules barring companies in most instances from owning a newspaper and a broadcast TV or radio station in the same market, as well as other individual market limits on radio and TV stations with «slight modification,» according to the summary of the proposal.

The Newspaper Association of America said in a statement in June it was «deeply disappointed» in Wheeler's proposal, saying it was «stunned that any policymaker in the internet era would propose to keep a 1970s - era law that prevents broadcast stations and newspapers from being owned by the same company.»

The move would be a win for newspaper companies and broadcasters that have pushed for the change for decades, but was criticized by Democrats who said it could usher in a new era of media outlet consolidation.

The company owns TV stations, newspapers like The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Melbourne, and magazines, and it's in the process of merging with New Zealand Media and Entertainment.

Pfizer (pfe), and at least one major newspaper, got fooled by a fake press release claiming the company would no longer increase the prices of its drugs.

The company is facing questions from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic about how it handles personal user data after a pair of weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times alleged research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank said it's part of a plan that makes the newspaper, the Star website and the new tablet app all priorities at the media company.

According to the Journal du Dimanche newspaper, the searches were ordered to try to identify holders of offshore companies set up by the bank via Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.

For the better part of the last decade or so, cable and TV companies have watched the upheaval going on in the movie and music industries — not to mention the newspaper business — and felt pretty sanguine about their prospects.

Despite the TV industry's perception that it is at the top of the entertainment food chain, at some point the impact of this shift becomes inescapable, just as newspaper and music companies eventually had to admit that the shifts they were seeing in consumer and advertising behavior were more than just a speed bump.

As the world turned, it wasn't to a convergence of newspaper and television companies, but rather to a convergence of pipes and content.

Speaking of sexual harassment: If you haven't yet read Kristen Bellstrom and Beth Kowitt's extraordinary report for Fortune on Michael Ferro, the former chairman of the company that publishes the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and New York Daily News, among many other American newspapers, set aside the time.

In an interview with Canadian Press in December, Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey said the companies never talked about what each would do with the newspapers it was buying to avoid charges of anti-competitive behaviour.

Besides the Toronto Star newspaper and its affiliated website, Torstar owns daily and community newspapers throughout Ontario, a 56.4 per cent interest in VerticalScope and minority interests in a number of other companies.

Predicasts» Overview of Markets and Technology (PROMT) is a one - stop database for public and private company information and industry info as found in all print media, such as trade journals, newspapers, magazines, and industry reports.

«Getting attention from the media is like getting free advertising on TV, in the newspaper, or via social media channels, allowing you to reach not only your current audience, but also people who may have never heard of you or your product,» says Wendy Duval, public relations and communications manager for The Vermont Teddy Bear Company.

Last year, Buffett also starting building a newspaper company with the $ 149 million acquisition of 63 Media General newspapers and several other small or mid-sized newspapers.

Despite the many changes to the company over the years, Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper has remained part of the family portfolio, evidently an heirloom with sentimental value all its own.

Next year Robinson, who currently runs the company's newspaper operations, will become CEO of one of the most influential media operations in the world.

It's an unpleasant reality, but the business side of a digital information company — even a strong one like the New York Times — may not be able to sustain the kind of infrastructure and cost base that a print - based newspaper model could.

The company also made an unpopular decision in 2016 to block a Norwegian newspaper editor from posting an iconic Vietnam War photo of a terrified, naked child fleeing her village after a vicious napalm attack.

Thank god someone finally figured out the real issue with the future of newspapers: company name.

The businessman is also director of Walton Enterprises, the holding company for the Walton family assets, and chairman of Community Publishers, an Arkansas - based newspaper firm.

But my personal favorite reputational tool is this one: company managers and employees should ask themselves, when making decisions for the company, whether: a) they would feel comfortable telling their mother about that decision, and b) they would feel comfortable reading about that decision on the front page of a newspaper.

(Heffernan touches on the big - picture disservice in the media's insidious practice of narrowing our horizons for profit, rather than expanding them in the public interest: «[Media companies] know that when we buy a newspaper or a magazine, we aren't looking for a fight... The search for what is familiar and comfortable underlies our media consumption habits in just the same way as it makes us yearn for Mom's mac»n' cheese.»)

The CEO talked about the Internet riches harnessing that technology could bring Tribune by pointing to the example of Buzzfeed, though that comparison misses many of the almost innumerable differences between a legacy newspaper company — even if one with the time and money to really «transform» itself — and a venture - juiced, digital - only, social news success, which is itself experiencing a bit of a stumble.

I used the format you provided and sent one out to all of the local TV stations and newspapers on behalf of my company http://www.artconnect.ca

Most companies still devote too much of their planning and budget mix to traditional media — television, newspapers, radio, and catalogs — and not enough to more innovative media.