Media News

Tuesday, 2/9/2010

Newsstand Sales, Circulation Fall for Magazines

In another tough stretch for the magazine business, newsstand sales and subscriptions declined in the last six months of 2009. The only good news: the rate of decline is getting less steep for newsstand sales. Newsstand sales for the almost 500 consumer magazines in the United States measured by the Audit Bureau of Circulations declined 9.1 percent, to 39.3 million, in the last half of 2009 versus the same period a year earlier.

Thursday, 2/4/2010

Blogging Is for Old People, Pew Report Finds

Teenagers and young adults spent less time blogging during the past three years as social networks like Facebook became more popular, according to a Pew Research Center study. Still, one social network, Twitter, has failed to catch on with the vast majority of younger teenagers, according to the Pew study of social media and mobile Internet use among teens and young adults.

CBS News Lays Off Dozens of Workers

Dozens of employees at CBS News were laid off in recent days amid a new round of budget cuts at the third-place network’s news division. Some employees were reassigned and others were demoted in the process. Speaking on condition of anonymity because they feared further layoffs, CBS employees said the cuts affected network programs like “The Early Show” and “60 Minutes,” and its news-gathering bureaus.

Wednesday, 2/3/2010

Dear Local News, Don't Blame Jay Leno

Tom Denari writes: "Maybe [NBC affiliates] should blame the lost viewers on the fact that we all have too many remote controls, and we can't figure out which is the right one. Or maybe it's actually because viewers are so ambivalent about their late local news that they aren't willing to press a couple of buttons on their remotes to change the station. It's not Jay's fault. Local news has become a faceless commodity."

Monday, 2/1/2010

Crowley to Anchor Sunday Talk Show on CNN

Ending a chain of changes that started with Lou Dobbs’s abrupt exit nearly three months ago, CNN on Sunday named Candy Crowley the new anchor of the political interview program “State of the Union.” Starting on Feb. 7, she will succeed John King, who is taking over Mr. Dobbs’s former time slot, weekdays at 7 p.m., later this month.