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Byline: Paul McNamara After the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed over 13,000 recently, San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy made an impassioned case for including Apple in the index, [...]

Product Review of Factiva.com In-depth review of product by experienced researcher, including screenshots and commentary Introduction VIP's View Sources Table 1: Examples of content type and sources 2011 Table 2: [...]

If you're interested in media, you should be reading Clay Shirky - that much is obvious. He's the most imaginative, articulate and even-handed of the digital/media prognosticators. And he has [...]

Fitch Ratings has upgraded the following ratings for Belo Corporation: --Issuer Default Rating to 'BB' from 'BB-';--Guaranteed senior unsecured notes to 'BB+' from 'BB';--Non-guaranteed senior unsecured notes/bonds to 'BB' from [...]

Byline: KUNUR PATEL Even newspapers are following Groupon's lead. It's no surprise, considering the three-year-old startup made a reported $760 million in revenue from local merchants last year--that's one-quarter of [...]

Moodys Investors Service has downgraded a combined $7.7 billion in residential mortgage-backed securities issued by Wachovia and IndyMac. Moodys Investors Service has downgraded a combined $7.7 billion in residential mortgage-backed [...]

Death seems to feature widely in this week's issue, namely the deaths of newspapers and the print rep, with the wicked web identified as prime suspect in both cases. With [...]

Print may be under threat from a range of new adversaries, but it should not be written off just yet. After all, print is the medium that consumers are most [...]

Moodys Investors Service has lowered the ratings on $24.86 billion of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities. Moodys Investors Service has lowered the ratings on $24.86 billion of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities. [...]

Standard & Poor's Ratings Service has reduced the ratings on $1.66 billion of U.S. collateralized loan obligations. Standard & Poor's Ratings Service has reduced the ratings on $1.66 billion of [...]

Deteriorating collateral pools prompted Standard & Poors Ratings Service to downgrade $5.34 billion of U.S. collateralized loan obligations. Deteriorating collateral pools prompted Standard & Poors Ratings Service to downgrade $5.34 [...]

Rising delinquencies and continued deterioration of underlying collateral have prompted Moodys Investors Service to downgrade $2.4 billion of Citigroup residential mortgage-backed securities. Rising delinquencies and continued deterioration of underlying collateral [...]

theblogpaper.co.uk Owner The Blog Paper Agency in-house Content 18/25 Usability 16/25 Branding 16/25 Monetisation 10/25 Total 60/100 Launching a free London newspaper shortly after thelondonpaper closes and The Evening Standard […]

The Daily Telegraph laments the decline of quality journalism, but paid-for content is no guarantee. Much of this column for the past three years has been about how the internet [...]

Moody's Investors Service on Friday confirmed its investment-grade credit rating of Gannett Co. Inc., but kept a negative outlook on its debt, signaling a possible downgrade at some undetermined point. [...]

Ten that do it right? Are there even five newspapers that can claim with a straight face that they do it 'right' these days? In a time when nearly every [...]

Is an over-reliance on the figures failing publishers, Alasdair Reid asks. It's just as well, really, that Martin Clarke, the publisher of Mail Online, speaks from a position of strength [...]

The Hearst Corp. said today it has increased its stake in the ratings agency Fitch Group. Fimalac S.A., the French-based parent company of Fitch Group, sold an additional 20% interest [...]

Review of Reviews The Guardian 4*July Matthew Norman wonders if the curiously named chef at A Taste of McClements in Kew, Surrey, took his name from a Jade Goody obituary, [...]

Standard & Poor's has cut its ratings on $5.56 billion of U.S. collateralized debt obligations. Standard & Poor's has cut its ratings on $5.56 billion of U.S. collateralized debt obligations. [...]

Reacting to The McClatchy Co.'s offer Thursday to exchange $1.15 billion in notes for cash and new notes that have deeply discounted face values but paying high interest, Fitch Ratings [...]

The latest line of eBook readers could offer a fresh outlet both for newspapers and advertisers. It has become the favourite gadget of celebrities from Jennifer Aniston to Cameron Diaz [...]

One of the biggest trends among struggling businesses these days is 'preannouncing,' publicly warning that bankruptcy is a possibility, maybe even a certainty. Newspaper publishers, though, haven't embraced this trend, [...]

Moody's Investors Service declared Friday that The McClatchy Co.'s $2.2 billion in debt is 'becoming unsustainable' -- and could force it to breach its lending agreements or seek restructuring. Moody's [...]

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services Monday pulled its investment-grade credit rating for Gannett Co., the second ratings agency to assign 'junk bond' ratings to the nation's biggest newspaper publisher. Last [...]

Gannett Co. Inc., the nation's largest newspaper publisher, lost its investment-grade credit rating from Moody's Investors Service Thursday. Gannett had been one of the last publicly traded newspaper companies with [...]

With the newspaper industry hanging on by a thread, the owners of the nationals don't really seem to be doing themselves many favours For example, Jonah Bloom says in Ad […]

Gannett Co. Inc.'s debt remains investment-grade -- barely -- after Moody's Investors Service Monday downgraded the nation's largest newspaper company credit rating one notch. Moody's downgraded Gannett senior unsecured debt [...]

Moody's Investors Services downgraded The New York Times Co. debt to 'junk' levels Friday. Times Co.'s 'corporate family rating,' as well as the rating on its senior unsecured debt was [...]