Entries for month: December 2011
2011 in video perspective: culture, business models, multi-media, social media
30 December 2011 · By Earl J. Wilkinson
The rapid shift from print to multi-media companies dominated industry headlines in 2011 — punctuated by the urgent need to get the right people for new hybrid job functions.
Below are some video interviews and presentations I made about culture change, business models, multi-media, and social media in the past year that I thought might be a good year-ender as we all pivot to what looks like a dangerous 2012.
Happy New Year!
...[more]Wind behind transformation: U.S. publishers’ EBITDA at half of peak
15 December 2011 · By Earl J. Wilkinson
When I looked at the hand-written, crumpled piece of paper, and compared it with the historic data I had on file, I did a double-take: profitability of U.S. newspaper companies has dropped to about half of its peak from 12 years ago!
Analyst John Morton faxed the data to me this week, he the rare and meticulous keeper of such industry data. This was the final piece to my authorship of the INMA Newsmedia Outlook report that looks at culture change and the path to a multi-media growth story. You can see the chart of EBITDA margins of U.S. publicly traded newsmedia companies on this page.
When you realise that the 2008-2011 numbers were achieved on the backs of massive cutbacks, you see in numbers what it takes a lot of words to describe outside the United States.
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