The Washington Post Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified media and education company in the United States and internationally. The company primarily provides a range of educational services for children, students, and professionals. It offers test preparation services for college and graduate school entrance exams; continuing education, certification, licensing, exam preparation, and professional development to corporations, as well as to individuals seeking to advance their careers in various disciplines; and classroom-based instruction and distance education ...
The newspaper industry has been obliterated over the past year, but, for a while, the other big print business, magazines, fared slightly less badly. According to analyst Doug McIntyre at 24/7 Wall Street, that has now changed:
At Hearst, Cosmopolitan's ad pages are off almost 11% through November. Redbook is down 10% for the same period. Good Housekeeping is only off 4%.
And that's as good as it gets.
All of the big Conde Nast magazines are posting sharp advertising page drops. The New Yorker is down 24% through November. Vanity Fair is off 12% but its November issue lost 34% of its ad pages
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Every Sunday like clockwork. I put my copy of the Sunday edition of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) in front of me at the breakfast table hoping to bask in the gray lady's take on the week's events. Then, the interruptions start. My 2-year-old son wants me to read him a book. Household chores need to be done. Groceries need to be bought, and soon the day has slipped into afternoon football time. The newspaper lies on the kitchen table, wai
Washington Post (WPO) just announced the takeover of Foreign Policy Magazine. Sounds like a good idea that enhances the political clout of Washington Post. The class B shares which trade around $550 a share and are trading near their 52 week lows were up slightly in this mornings early trading.
OK let me get this straight. A news organization that fights for disclosure, clarity, transparency, even the truth, announces a deal with financial implications and utters not one word about the financial ramifications. Lots of verbiage about the editorial side of Foreign Policy, which is all good. B...
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