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Joshua BentonMay 3, 2021

Someone new thinks they can make Yahoo and AOL good businesses in 2021

And, as usual for this glum moment in media, it’s a private equity firm that wants a crack at finding new places to cut.

Ricardo BiltonNovember 17, 2017

Bad news from Mashable, BuzzFeed, and Vice shows times are rough for ad-supported digital media

The rapid growth of Google and Facebook continues to take its toll on digital media companies.

Ken DoctorDecember 9, 2016

Newsonomics: Seizing the Brexit-Trump moment, the Murdochs bid for Sky

Are we entering a new age of digital robber barons?

Arianna Huffington leaves The Huffington Post (but not because of the Verizon-Yahoo deal, she says)

Here are some observations, concerns, and media implications from the Verizon-Yahoo deal

Joseph LichtermanJanuary 22, 2016

20 years ago today, NYTimes.com debuted “on-line” on the web

“We all had a sense that something important was happening, but at the time there were actually very few users. So it was a bet on people getting online and buying more PCs.”

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 4, 2015

Grown from Patch: A crop of new hyperlocal news sites has sprung up from AOL’s failed platform

When their jobs at Patch ended, some journalists didn’t give hyperlocal news up.

Ken DoctorSeptember 3, 2015

Newsonomics: 10 headlines we may see this fall about the future of news

From pipes to platforms, overseas to over-the-top, the shifts we’ll see in the remainder of 2015 will set the stage for 2016 and beyond.

Joseph LichtermanApril 29, 2015

The State of the News Media 2015: Newspapers ↓, smartphones ↑

The annual omnibus report from Pew outlines a story of continued trends more than radical change.

Is publishers’ Facebook free ride coming to a end?

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