Tribune Missing the Scoop on Growth?
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2004 didn't turn out as Tribune expected, but the company may be barking up the wrong tree as it seeks to bolster results.
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This year should mark another year of growth in the United States. That is hardly remarkable. What is remarkable, and perhaps unappreciated, is that growth has become the norm for the American economy.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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There's more to growth than just a high growth rate.
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How do you revive flagging growth and thinning margins? Sell more razor blades!
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A surprising source may spur a Gap turnaround.
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Another impressive first quarter, but business may be softening.
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The stock looks reasonably valued but some core businesses are struggling to grow.
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Also: New business models make upgrading cheaper. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Although print circulation continues falling, major American newspapers are experiencing a healthy rise in traffic to their websites. Most encouraging: The web editions are attracting a younger audience.
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Blog: The company says it needs the cash to fuel growth, but some bloggers think the problem is not enough subscribers.
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By Bill Barnhart, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 6--Stocks meandered Monday, caught once again in the crosscurrents of competing forecasts about economic growth and inflation.
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The book retailer's earnings were ordinary, but its growth outlook looks enticing.
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Newspaper and television station owner  Tribune Co. TRB.N on Wednesday said third-quarter earnings  would lag Wall Street estimates because of lower-than-expected  publishing and broadcasting revenue.
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update Earnings per share rise compared with a year ago, but company misses analysts' expectations by a long shot.
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This company may be huge, but it's still a growth play.
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Tribune Co.  shares have been trading significantly below the price offered in an $8.2 billion buyout of the media company led by Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell, a sign of nervousness over whether the deal will be completed.