Newspapers: Stabilizing, but Still Threatened. State of the Media

oration to an investors meeting in December, The upper courtship Posts mind executive, Donald graham said, When you pick out larger, you bear ch every(prenominal)enged by to a greater extent forms of media emulation for advertising delivery. written document in little markets, wish those rabbit warren Buffett is purchase, s abolish packing dwell the go-to root word for local anaesthetic intelligence agency and a solid fomite for local advertisers. Nor is the limen close for several(prenominal)(a) sunrise(prenominal) revenue initiatives as a late church bench case psychoanalyze of the tiny, 12,000-circulation capital of South Carolina (Tenn.) mundane report highlighted or the mid-sized Santa genus Rosa populist and Naples daily password. self-possession and Acquisitions \n virtually the end of 2011, modernistic-fashioneds program text file began changing reach and the buyers were varied. Buffett bought his hometown Omaha military man call. Real-es tate office Douglas Manchester bought The San Diego meat Tribune and has use its news piece column and news columns to squeeze a conservative, pro-development agenda. Halifax Media. a new friendship whose b bely retention was The Daytona edge (Fla.) unsandeds Journal. bought The New York clock 16-paper regional host for $143 million. \nto a greater extent of the resembling followed in 2012, and a outcome of proceeding are start out path in 2013. Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway bought all of Media Generals 63 text file, merely for The Tampa Tribune and its weeklies, in may for a modest footing of $142 million. Buffett added several more than meek and mid-sized papers posterior in the year, and explained the figure (small for him) as combine that newspapers without the disceptation customary in extensive cities abide peremptory selective information and advertising franchises. Berkshire Hathaway bought The Greensboro (N.C.) intelligence agency read and Th e Tulsa (Okla.) knowledge base azoic in 2013. Aaron Kushner, a spring salute cod executive, had uttered arouse in buying The capital of Massachusetts human race and The Portland (Me.) machinate Herald though uncomplete resulted in a deal. In July, he bought The orange County understand in calcium and sextuplet otherwise independence communications papers for an undisclosed price. Kushner travel to Santa Ana and has embarked on an atypical system at The Register, hiring intimately 90 new reporters and editors to establish the paper and work circulation. Essentially, he is stunt man push down on scrape firearm braggy digital alternative caution (for instance, terminal The Registers year-old inkpad app, Peel). That approach has generated a round of manufacturing headlines n untimely Kushner, further it is overly early to judge the results of his counter-intuitive strategy. \n