Tronc Q3 Revenues Down 6.9 Percent From 2015

Print ad sales slip 13.3 percent as newspaper giant releases earnings hours after Gannett abandons takeover bid Brian Flood | November 1, 2016 @ 1:42 PM tronc Tronc unveiled its third-quarter 2016 earnings on Tuesday with revenues of $378 million, down 6.9 percent compared to $406 million in the third quarter of 2015. Only one analyst weighed in,…

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Peter Thiel Goes to Washington

Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire and Facebook board member, appeared today at the National Press Club in Washington, where he gave a short speech defending his support of Donald Trump and answered journalists’ written questions about his decade-long campaign to destroy Gawker Media. His answers revealed a deep-seated hatred toward Gawker and its staff,…

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Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads – The New York Times

Typical Outbrain ads. Readers are starting to express discontent about this sort of advertising. You see them everywhere, and maybe, sometimes, you click: those rows of links under web articles, often augmented with eye-catching photos and curiosity-stoking headlines about the latest health tips, celebrity news or ways to escape financial stress. Usually grouped together under…

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