A good list to be on. If my friends from Brooklyn could see me now. “Fuggetaboutit!”
Thank you Washington Life.
Tag Archives: Print Media
Bad News for the Washington Post
Compared to the newspaper industry, the NHL looks like Google now. :-) Our sales, revenues, ratings, renewals, merchandise sales, sponsorship sales and franchise values are all up. Some areas of growth are in double digits year over year. We expect growth to continue for the foreseeable future.
The newspaper industry continues to struggle with no end in sight. If you can believe it by these numbers, the Washington Post is actually the best of class, best management and best positioned to grow in other areas of media and software. We are blessed to have a great franchise like the Post in this community. They have done a great job in diversifying but the systemic issues facing the news print industry is becoming terrifying and one has to start to wonder how this movie will end?
Print’s Role
It is good that HBO and Bob Costas are exploring the state of sports media. It is good that print’s role will be discussed as well. I just received my Sports Illustrated in the mail. I got it on Thursday night. In it, it has a pull out on SI’s expert picks on who will get taken in the NFL draft. Their #1 pick prediction for the Miami Dolphins was wrong. Long of Michigan was taken and signed already. Hence, I stopped looking at that piece. Then I went to a 5,000 word article on the Giants vs. the Colts in 1956 filled with sepia-tinged photos, an article I can swear I have read in the magazine three times before. What are the editors thinking at SI? Is this how they plan to stay relevant to a younger, always on, always connected audience?