Media General’s fling with the inRich.com domain name is coming to an end. The company plans to phase out inRich.com and re-brand Richmond.com with a similar format, according to information Media General provides to potential advertisers. Media General owns the Times-Dispatch.
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Media General cuts two North Carolina papers to two days a week
Media General is slashing certain publishing businesses as advertising revenue plummets. The company, which owns the Richmond Times-Dispatch, revealed this week they will cut publication of two North Carolina newspapers from five to only two days per week. At the end of March, the Reidsville Review and the Eden Daily News will be printed only… Read more »
The price tag of a helping hand
Fallout from the slump in corporate earnings could hit local nonprofits hard. On Monday we reported on how the economic crisis portends a rough patch for charities that rely on donations. I looked up a few more corporate foundations to see what impact they have on the local nonprofit scene. Unless individual giving rises dramatically,… Read more »
The Times-Dispatch’s Trifecta of Confusion
The whole user generation thing isn’t a great business plan for a newspaper company when users can slam your new product on the day of its launch. Yesterday Media General split the Times-Dispatch.com from InRich.com, and dozens of comment on the Times-Dispatch’s ridicules the layout and usability. Before Thursday, if you typed in www.timesdispatch.com, you… Read more »
Wall Street to Broad Street
When Wall Street institutions falter, Richmond feels the tremors. But the details of how all this will play out locally are anyone’s guess. Pat Fishe, a professor of finance at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business, said that the day’s events have several local ramifications. National banking activity could slow, and with our… Read more »
Media General CEO predicts mergers
Media General CEO Marshall Morton says major American newspapers will have to join forces in order to stay alive. “There’s got to be some assimilation, I would guess that rather than bankruptcies, you’d see some combinations,” he says in a story that appeared in Monday’s NY Times. Ad revenue at newspapers across the country is… Read more »
T-D looks in the mirror
Newspapers have a hard time covering themselves. On Sunday the T-D looked inward. John Reid Blackwell, wrote about the mighty struggles at the paper’s parent, Media General. “In the past two decades, the company’s strategy has been to build a newspaper and television empire in the Southeast and to combine and find collaborative opportunities at… Read more »