The newspaper publisher's digital revenue tumbled 12.4% to $9.1 million during the fourth quarter of 2011, helping pull down total revenue 4.9%.

Kristina Ackermann takes a look at where newspapers might be in the year 2020: "No matter how quickly technology changes and how drastically the media is affected by those changes, one truth will remain: Content is king. Bill Gates said so in 1996, it’s still true in 2012, and it will still be true in 2020."

Facebook's fast-rising ad revenue, which comes entirely from display ads, and Google's strategy to diversify ad revenue and move in on the display market have pushed the two companies past Yahoo for display ad market share, according to eMarketer.

Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effective cross-platform tablet production workflow for the blossoming number of new devices, after earlier implementing an iPad-specific strategy.

Alex Salkever: "Nonprofit news is very hard to make profitable precisely because of the funding model. By profitable, I mean, they bring in more than they spend. ... But what’s notable about Yelp, of course, is the marginal cost of each story produced. Which is effectively zero. The crowd does it all."

Many news publishers focus their mobile strategies on platform-specific apps — but the mobile Web may actually be more important, since a mobile site is easier to discover, link to, and share from a mobile device.

The company is planning to switch all of its 80 community newspapers to a metered paid model by the end of the year, it announced today during its investor day event. The one exception: national newspaper USA Today. Late Last year, CEO Gracia Martore told Wall Street analysts that the company would be rolling out paywalls in an effort to monetize its online properties.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings remains adamant about his goal: moving from DVDs by mail to streaming video. With Hollywood hailing his vision and needing his business, Netflix has started to rebound. But not everyone is sold.

Arthur Brisbane, public editor for The New York Times, says the newspaper should create a news portal to protect its product: "Home base should be an anchor that not only offers content but also an institutional statement about what The Times stands for and what it thinks."

Like its Web-based version, which has been used by news organizations such as The New York Times and Al Jazeera, the app makes it easy to scroll through and assemble Tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook photos and Instagram photos into a social media timeline.