Since the ReinventingClassifieds.com blog has been a bit quiet lately, let’s catch up with some recent classifieds news and developments. Place your own ads online: display, not just classifieds. As noted in Newspapers & Technology, the Orange County Register has developed an online create-your-own-ad system for display ads, which can be placed in the Register [...]

This Thursday, 50 newspaper company CEOs met in a closed-door “Crisis Summit” at the American Press Institute (Reston, Virginia). With no publicly available recordings of the proceedings, we don’t have much information, though API staff produced a written summary. Also, one of the participants, Gazette Communications CEO Chuck Peters, posted to Twitter through the day [...]

If you follow my personal blog you may have seen the diagrams below, but I think they deserve some extra notice for the classifieds and advertising professionals who look in on ReinventingClassifieds.com (and don’t see my more general media musings). They come from retired management consultant Frank Pecarich, who has been watching the newspaper industry’s [...]