Sunday, May 03, 2009

More NYT Bad News

More gloom in newspaper world as the New York Times lost $74.5 million in the first quarter. Second year in a row for a 1st quarter loss, but last year NYT dropped only $335K.

Print advertising for the Old Grey Lady was off 28.4%.
The loss numbers don’t add up. Did the story mean that the $74.5 loss was after some big infusions of cash?

Imagine how bad it could have been had Times Corp not raised $225 million on selling it’s Manhattan building and leasing back the space plus a $250 million loan from Carlos Slim of Mexico.

Real shame -- I'm really enjoying the news app on my iPhone. Perfect example of if you get it in the right format, people will use it.

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