U.S. newspapers try to restore investor confidence
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U.S. newspaper executives will meet  next week in New York to wrestle with one of their biggest  challenges: persuading investors to stick around.
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While The Wall Street Journal may eventually have new ownership, one Fool hopes a reduction in quality won't follow.
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A financial update: The newspaper business still stinks. That's not news to anyone who follows the public stocks of big newspaper companies, including this paper's corporate parent, The New York Times Co. Now one company that has spent most of the past year swimming against that powerful tide finds itself losing favor, too.
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THE REGION New York Times Co.'s debt rating was cut one level to BBB, the second-lowest investment grade, by Standard &amp; Poor's, which cited falling advertising sales and the broader newspaper industry decline. The short-term corporate credit and commercial paper ratings for the New York publisher were also lowered, S&amp;P said. Total advertising revenue fell 8.5 percent to $157.3 million ...
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In an effort to shore up confidence in newspaper circulation reporting, an industry group is moving to tighten controls and hire more auditing staff in the wake of misstatement scandals at four newspapers this year.
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U.S. newspaper publishers expected advertising to rebound this year after a slump of more than two years. They're still waiting.
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Shares are slipping, but investors should do their homework to find out why.
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Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell will attempt to restore investors&#39; faith in its strategy at a briefing for oil analysts on Wednesday.
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Sometimes the market overreacts to marginal news, good or bad.
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Bank C.D.âs, bonds and money market funds may offer peace of mind to nervous investors.
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NEW YORK - Hurt by erratic advertising demand, many of the nation&#39;s newspaper companies will fail to deliver the profits they had hoped for in the latest quarter.
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Jeff Jarvis is looking for better stewards of journalism's future. He explains, I donât see enough development going on in new news efforts &#151; enough to save journalism from the sinking news business. And thatâs whatâs troubling me. The old players are proving to be quite ineffective stewards &#151; we knew that &#151; but there arenât enough new stewards joining the church.  Problem is, you can't make a new business out of an old business that's turned into a church. Wall Street isn't up for that, and most of the big papers work for Wall Street. The word "stewardship" alone is a boat anchor on any company's stock price.
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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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How can the company win back the trust of shareholders?
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Competitors do better and investors are keeping their feet on the ground.
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NEW YORK - New media will be more friend than foe. That was the reassuring message for investors offered by executives from top traditional media companies at two of the industry's biggest annual conferences.
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Investors find reasons for optimism for Charles Schwab.