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Web 3.0 & McClatchy (Part 4)
Acquisition Targets McClatchy’s strongest asset is CareerBuilder. Though CareerBuilder is the number one job site in the US it lacks community features and McClatchy along with its partners could consider acquiring professional networkin sites like LinkedIn, Xing, etc., which have very good community features to enhance CareerBuilder. Sequoia Capital, Greylock, the European Founders Fund, and
Web 3.0 & McClatchy (Part 3)
Web 3.0 Framework discussion Below is a quick overview of the Web 3.0 framework for the McClatchy sites. We have not gone into the details of all the properties, but you can review the Web 3.0 section of this site for detailed discussions on each vertical category. This segment also includes an overview of the
Web 3.0 & McClatchy (Part 1)
Introduction The McClatchy Company is the third largest newspaper company in the United States. The Company publishes 31 daily newspapers and approximately 50 non-dailies across 29 locations in the United States. The prominent newspapers from the Company include the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star, the Charlotte Observer and the Sacramento Bee. McClatchy also owns
Web 3.0 and CareerBuilder
CareerBuilder founded in 1995, is owned by Gannett, Tribune, and McClatchy. It is a job site where users can search or post jobs and resumes, gather information about companies and seek career related advice from experts. The site has 400 million monthly page views and over 21 million monthly unique visitors. The site averages more
Web 3.0 and Jobs: Overview
Jobs is one of the top online segments in the US with $5.9 billion online advertising revenues, which constitutes around 25% of Internet ad revenues in the US. The online job market has been steadily taking away market share from newspaper classifieds. In this series, we will evaluate the online jobs category against the Web
McClatchy & Yahoo! Ad Deal
In April 2007, Yahoo! entered in an alliance with McClatchy for online advertising. Yahoo! already has an agreement with a consortium of 12 newspapers and the current deal represents more than 264 newspapers across 44 states. McClatchy has discarded its plans of setting up a similar online ad partnership with Gannett and Tribune and decided
Newspapers: Industry in Turmoil
Alan Murray writes in the Wall Street Journal: “Last weekend’s “Billionaires Bid for Tribune” headlines were enough to warm the hearts of us Dickensian scribes who still seek to make a living from impressions on wood pulp. Savvy Chicagoan Sam Zell sold much of his U.S. real-estate empire at the top of the market; could
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 14)
Maggie and I finish our discussion of McClathcy newspapers, and then she provides words of wisdom for aspiring CEO’s and young entreperneurs. SM: McClatchy has definitely seen a drop in advertising on the print side. MW: There has been a drop in revenue, and it has been publicly reported, especially in some of the vertical
