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AP Reveals More About Unfair Use Crackdown

Performance Marketing

The Associated Press is set to roll out more details on how it’s going to crack down on the misuse of its content. Of course, at the heart of the [...]

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WSJ: Freedom’s Scott Flanders to Head Playboy

Performance Marketing

Freedom Communications president and CEO Scott Flanders has been tapped as the successor to Christie Hefner at the head of Playboy Enterprises, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The choice [...]

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NAA: Q1 Ad Revenue Nosedives 30%

Performance Marketing

Industry advertising revenue plunged almost 30 percent to $6.6 billion in Q1 compared with the same quarter last year, according to the latest data from the Newspaper Association of America. [...]

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Cox Unloads Two Texas Dailies

Performance Marketing

Cox Enterprises has unloaded two of its Texas papers to Houston-based Southern Newspapers. Terms of the sale, which include The Lufkin Daily News and The Daily Sentinel in Nacogdoches, were [...]

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Cox Sells Direct-Mail Business

Convergent TV

Cox Enterprises Inc. said Wednesday it has sold Saving Source Direct, a direct mail business in Tarboro, N.C., to MailSouth of Helena, Ala. Saving Source Direct, previously known as PAGAS [...]

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Parade Launches iPhone App

Performance Marketing

Parade has launched the first iPhone application for its numbers game Numbrix, created by Marilyn vos Savant. Numbrix consists of a 9×9 matrix puzzle in which several of the squares [...]

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AP Mobile Hits Milestone

Performance Marketing

The Associated Press said that after the one-year launch of AP Mobile, more than 55 million local stories have been read on the platform. Member participation advanced 887 percent with [...]

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McClatchy Begins Private Debt Exchange Offer

Performance Marketing

McClatchy Co. started a $1.15 billion private debt exchange offer Thursday as the nation’s third-largest newspaper publisher tries to reduce approximately $2 billion in debt and improve its balance sheet. [...]

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Tribune Co. Ups Several Key Players

Performance Marketing

Chicago media giant Tribune Co. has promoted several key executives in its corporate, development, marketing, technology and circulation areas. Steve Gable, who had been senior vice president/chief technology officer since [...]

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Rocky Mountain News Vets to Launch Web Daily

Performance Marketing

A group of journalists from the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News plan to launch an online daily news site this summer. Content of the site, named The Rocky Mountain Independent, will [...]