Struggling industry throttles newspaper metrics

Unable to arrest years of declining ad sales and sliding print circulation, two key trade groups representing the newspaper industry have done the next best thing: 

They effectively have stopped reporting on the metrics that make it possible to measure – and, therefore, understand and manage – the industry’s ongoing challenges. 

Earlier this year, the Newspaper Association of America, an

Omidyar’s big, bold bet on next-gen news

First, came Warren Buffett. Then, Jeff Bezos. Now, Pierre Omidyar has become the third prominent billionaire to try his hand at finding a popular and profitable business model for funding quality journalism in the digital era. 

Apart from the common bond they share with a collective net worth approaching $100 billion, each of the business superstars is pursuing a distinctly different path in

Time for Change: The Last Post

It's Time
Photo Credit:Tim Nisly

After much deliberation, much soul searching about direction, a lot of brainstorming and still a few doubts I've decided to wrap this blog up. (The blog itself will remain here but there will be no more updates.) A Letter from the Netherlands was the place I started my writing, started connecting with other expats and through this blog met a bunch of amazing people. The fact is that I only have so many hours a day and it's proving not to be enough for everything I want to do. Something has to go. So this is one of the 'things'. After five years here it's a tough decision but I'm taking a new direction, planning a rebranding under my own name (The Writing Well is also on the chop list) and I am looking forward to some really exciting developments.

However, that doesn't mean an end to my blogging - au contraire my dear friends. Expat Life with a Double Buggy is going strong and will continue to do so with a wider scope than before. I started ELwaDB to blog about expat parenting. I'm widening that with a new tag line:

"My expat way of living, loving & parenting"

This means that I'll be blogging about anything that takes my fancy that relates to expat life, parenting, living in the Netherlands, speaking a foreign language, all things British, exploring new cultures...... you name it really, I'll probably have something to say about it!

So if you are a follower of this blog get yourself over to Expat Life with a Double Buggy and follow me over there. Besides the blog, there are a million and one ways to connect with me. Well, four actually. (You can directly click on the social media buttons on the top right of this page or use the links below). 

1. Expat Life with a Double Buggy has its very own Facebook page with lots of lovely people giving their opinion on lots of expat and parenting related topics. I share not only my blog posts and articles there but wonderful musings from other people too. If you're on Facebook hop over, like and say hello.
2. I'm on Twitter. You can find me under the name AmandavMulligen.
3. I'm also on Pinterest pinning lots of different topics but particularly relevant boards include Being British, Expats in the Know, Expat Life, What I love about the Netherlands, Expat Shopping
4. And last but not least you can connect with me on Google+

I will also continue to be a guest blogger for Smitten by Britain for the foreseeable future.

I guess the short version of all this is that I'm clearing the way for a new path. I'm consolidating. All three of my children are out of the baby stage so it's time to turn a little more focus back to writing. Over five years I've evolved, my goals have changed and my plans have started to take shape. So please stay with me on the journey..... take my hand and walk the new path with me...... see you all over at Expat Life with a Double Buggy. You coming...? This way.....

P.S I think there may be a tear as I press publish this time..... I can always change my mind right?

Newspaper sales dive enters 8th straight year

As digital advertising sales soared 18% to a record high in the first six months of this year, the revenues of the publicly traded newspaper companies slipped an average of 5.5% to enter an eighth year of unabated decline.

Paced by a 145% increase in mobile ad sales, digital volume hit a half-year high of $20.1 billion, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a trade organization.

7 tumultuous years for Tribune newspapers

A directive to cut up to $100 million in spending at the Tribune Co. newspapers is but the latest challenge to a group of iconic titles that have been twisting in the wind for seven of the most tumultuous years ever experienced by the publishing industry. 

The budget cuts in store for the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and six other dailies published by the company add to the

Digital media get ready to get more personal

Say good-bye to one-size-fits-all content and advertising.  The age of personalization is arriving in the digital media, and it will change everything about what we read, where we eat, what we buy and even how we get to work. 

There is a race under way in Silicon Valley (and beyond) to do an ever-better job of tracking, archiving and analyzing consumer activity on desktops, laptops, tablets,