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In tumultuous times like these, challenged media players on both sides of the digital divide — including the formidable likes of Google and News Corp. at either ends of the spectrum — should be asking questions along the lines of "What would Warren Buffett do?"
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Buffett’s watchwords: risk, digital, globalize
In tumultuous times like these, challenged media players on both sides of the digital divide -- including the formidable likes of Google and News Corp. at either ends of the spectrum -- should be asking questions along the lines of "What would Warren Buffett do?"
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Media deals are taking on new importance because they not only are reflecting but reshaping the nature of an industry that is in the throes of major transformation, one that eventually will render new formulas for valuations and new business models.
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What’s not there yet key to media future
Media deals like the proposed merger between satellite radio providers XM and Sirius are taking on new importance because they not only are reflecting but reshaping the nature of an industry that is in the throes of major transformation, DIANE MERMIGAS writes.
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Changes in TV advertising to be evident at upfront
The new value propositions and metrics marketers are embracing Google, Yahoo! and other points online are going to make this year's television upfront advertising market anything but routine as unrelenting reminder of the change that will one day grip TV advertising.
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The recent turn of events in the media world, as well as the latest financial disclosures from News Corp. and the Walt Disney Co. — considered by Wall Street to be the leading traditional players in digital revenue and earnings growth — shed light on the industry's efforts to develop new-media business models.
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It will be more than just who has content
Future growth in new-media business can't depend on rare enterprises like News Corp.'s MySpace or Disney's monetization of hit film and TV content, DIANE MERMIGAS writes.
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There are at least 10 good reasons why media companies should rethink the digital broadband interactive strategies they warily budgeted for this year, not the least of which are the dramatic changes already taking place in what were supposed to be rock solid assumptions about the future.
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Today’s top 10 list: media broadband truths
There are at least 10 good reasons why media companies should rethink the digital broadband interactive strategies they warily budgeted for this year, not the least of which are the dramatic changes already taking place in what were supposed to be rock solid assumptions about the future, DIANE MERMIGAS writes.
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Consensus was voiced last week by leading executives from companies as far flung on the media spectrum as Google and Tribune Co. that the survival of newspapers depends on their ability to reinvent themselves online with new business models, the creation and execution of which continue to be lacking.
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Newspapers will need natural Web transition
Despite seeming consensus that the survival of newspapers depends on their ability to reinvent themselves online with new business models, execution continues to be lacking, DIANE MERMIGAS writes.
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What do Hillary Rodham Clinton announcing her presidential candidacy on her Web site and the continuing travails of big media's digital transformation have in common? Plenty.
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