Surprise: “Subscribers who read many stories per visit and read them thoroughly were no more likely to keep their subscriptions than those who skimmed.”
He marked his purchase of Chicagoist — formerly part of the media empire of Joe Ricketts, whose family owns the Cubs — by beefing with Crain’s Chicago Business.
For a company that’s known little but chaos in its short life, the degree of uncertainty is now as high as ever. Just about the only thing we know: Tronc execs will come out well in the end.
Even without the L.A. Times, it still controls a lot of important newspapers. Will it sell them to Gannett, Murdoch, local individuals in each city — or to yet another private equity firm looking to strip papers for parts?
Will his attempt to sideline investor Patrick Soon-Shiong lead to consolidated control, or will legal action push back? And did we ever figure out what a Tronc is, anyway?
Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: Michael Ferro’s creeping privatization of Tronc." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 24 Mar. 2017. Web. 13 Nov. 2024.
APA
Doctor, K. (2017, Mar. 24). Newsonomics: Michael Ferro’s creeping privatization of Tronc. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved November 13, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/newsonomics-michael-ferros-creeping-privatization-of-tronc/
Chicago
Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: Michael Ferro’s creeping privatization of Tronc." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 24, 2017. Accessed November 13, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/newsonomics-michael-ferros-creeping-privatization-of-tronc/.
Wikipedia
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