GateHouse and Gannett are on the verge of becoming the biggest newspaper company in the US. GateHouse announced Monday that the two companies have agreed to merge, meaning that the Democrat & Chronicle, the Rochester Business Journal, the Canandaigua Daily Messenger, the Daily Record, and USA Today will all have the same owner. GateHouse — […]
Media consolidation
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GateHouse and Gannett talk consolidation
GateHouse Media already owns the Canandaigua Daily Messenger and the suburban Post papers. Its business-to-business division, Bridgetower Media, owns the Rochester Business Journal and The Daily Record. Soon, the Democrat & Chronicle could be a GateHouse paper, too. GateHouse and Gannett — the D&C’s owner — are in merger talks, and reports from the Wall […]
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State’s Comcast-Time Warner review extended
The state Public Service Commission has postponed its decision on the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. The decision had been expected today. In a filing yesterday, Comcast and Time Warner Cable agreed to a request from commission staff to delay the decision, as long as the matter concludes by the end of 2014. The commission […]
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Comcast-Time Warner deal in regulators’ hands
If approved, the merger would make Comcast, already the largest pay TV and broadband Internet provider in the country, even bigger.
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Reader feedback – 9.20.06
Radio and dead air; Hezbollah’s motives, graft in government
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Future tense
It’s not news that the media landscape is changing rapidly. Major consolidations of newspaper and broadcast ownership, the reliance on the internet for news: what will we end up with? And what impact will the changes have on democracy? Among the writers exploring those questions is New York Times media critic David Carr. A veteran […]
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Mega mediasaurus
To grasp bigness, sometimes you have to take out the magnifying glass. That’s what media observers are doing retrospectively with a story that came out of Minot, North Dakota, in January 2002. The small town was hit with a rail-car leak of anhydrous ammonia, an irritant that can cause serious injuries. The story […]
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The marriage trap
Same-sex marriage has become an issue, at least for the moment, in the presidential campaign. We may never know what George Bush, John Edwards, and John Kerry really think: The topic is so emotional that its mere mention forces a political stance. Attitudes will change. Years from now, same-sex marriage will be no more […]
