Background
USA Today is a national U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. Initially considered gimmicky and insubstantial, it gradually developed a reputation for higher quality while increasing its circulation and advertising revenues at a time when few papers were experiencing growth. The features that originally set it apart are abundant colorful graphics, very brief stories, and a concentration on sports and celebrity, have influenced other newspapers. To date, USA Today remains the widest circulated print newspaper in the United States.
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Economy woes
The advertising revenue of the company was adversely affected in 2008 because of the economic recession. The companies faced a lot of losses because of high paper cost and reduced advertising revenue. This resulted in the shutdown of a number of newspaper companies.
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Content
Right now USA Today’s content is geared mostly towards male readers. Female readers only make up 30% of their customer base. If USA Today were to give their content a facelift it could generate more readers – not necessarily just women though.
In the beginning USA Today prided themselves on being unique and having “fun” content in their paper compared to their competitors. But now they’re just trying to be another WSJ with their primary hard news. USA Today needs to remember that their main demographic is different from WSJ’s more affluent and wealthy demographic. They need to get back to their roots.
Including Fashion and Entertainment sections in their paper could help them achieve the new image that they need and help them get attention from younger generations and female readers. Yes their loyal fan base is older but only changing their content a little will allow them to keep their loyal customers and branch out to new ones with lighter more fun content.
Our generation today isn’t always concerned with hard news, political news
The New Yorker is a magazine that is published weekly and reports on multiple topics such as: business, politics, international affairs, and technology. After researching the reader demographics of this magazine I’ve come to discover who actually reads The New Yorker. The statistics I found on the reader demographic consisted of age, sex, social economic background, education and political views. When this magazine was first created in 1925, the publishers had a target group of readers that they were attempting to reach out to, still today the same group of readers are targeted.
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USA Today debuted in 1982 as America’s first national general-interest daily newspaper by Allen H. Gannett who was Chairman of Gannett Co., Inc., until 1989. Now this company is worth around $4.7billions and Gannett is a global information juggernaut that publishes 82 daily and 700 nondaily newspapers and affiliated websites, operates 23 broadcast television stations reaching 18.2 percent of the U.S. population. Gannett newspapers including USA Today, have combined circulation of 11.6 million readers every weekday and 12 million readers every Sunday and total online audience is roughly 52 million unique visitors per month. Gannett is currently the largest U.S. newspaper group in terms of circulation.
The main purpose or mission of the Greenhill Community Center was to provide human service programs for learning, growth, and enrichment throughout life within an intergenerational setting. The mission seems to fill the need in the demographical setting of the location. The center is located in one of the poorest cities on the East Coast. In the textbook it states a mission as being “the reason an organization exists, and it must be the starting point for its planning.” (Worth, p.172) The mission of the center is very sound, but in the process of hiring a new director, I think the mission focus was lost. I saw a couple of incidences of “mission creep“ in the reading. (Worth, p.173) One being the focus the trustees put on not
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On its debut in 1982, USA Today was reckoned as America’s first National general-interest daily newspaper. Being the global information juggernaut that he is, Gannett managed to identify a gap in the market that he identified as an opportunity for the leading to-be newspaper of the united States. The opportunity was the void gap in the market. Attention to the business traveler was the least attended to
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The New York Times has a strong brand presence, name and equity in the United States. According to Michael Hirschorn, contributing editor at the Atlantic, “You really can trace almost any major story these days to something that originally appeared in The Times. The problem is that once it reaches the public, they may not even know it came from The Times.” Readers of The New York Times are extremely loyal as well. A daily issue is priced at $2.50 compared to $2.00 for the Wall Street Journal and $1.00 for USA Today. In addition, within nine months, 390,000 consumers have subscribed to www.nytimes.com for a premium price of approximately $4.00 a week [Table B] and 70% of print subscribers have taken
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Over the last ten years there has been a significant reduction in the total number of newspaper copies circulated in the United States. The total number of newspaper copies circulated, both daily and Sunday in 2000 was 115,194,000. By 2008 this number had dipped significantly to 97,712,000. By the end of 2010 the total number of copies circulated was 43.4 million. Simultaneously, advertising revenues have also steadily declined over the years. Advertising revenues have dipped from $48,670 billion in 2000 to $24,821 billion in 2009. 2010 was relatively calm compared to the hair-raising dips in revenue of 2008 and 2009. Advertising revenues for 2010 dropped roughly 6.3 percent, to $22.8 billion. That was relatively low compared to the 26 percent drop in 2009. With the losses of the three previous years newspaper advertising is down roughly 48 percent, nearly half of what is was five years ago. Expenses continue to climb, especially for news print, where the price is running 20 to 30 percent higher than it was a year ago. Earlier rounds of staff cuts and savings from outsourcing have cycled
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