{"id":449,"date":"2006-11-20T09:26:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T15:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=449"},"modified":"2006-11-20T09:26:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T15:26:42","slug":"yahoo-and-the-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/yahoo-and-the-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo and the Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting development &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/business\/16056262.htm?source=rss&#038;channel=twincities_business\" target=\"_blank\">Newspapers will partner with Yahoo<\/a>. I find it surprising that we are quickly approaching 2007 and the antique newspapers are finally making a serious adjustment towards an online focus. The dinosaurs of the newspaper industry may have made the move too late &#8211; it is hard to say. The younger generations are <em>not<\/em> newspaper readers. Instead, they consume their news in an electronic format.  Suffice to say, it is a move in the <em>right<\/em> direction.<\/p>\n<p>One piece of information stands out for our business:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The consortium said its first move would be to bolster Yahoo&#8217;s HotJobs online classified service, allowing advertisers to post job listings in newspapers, on newspaper Web sites and on the Yahoo network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have dabbled with HotJobs in the past, but we have not had much success with their online job board. Their impending tie-in with the newspaper postings will cause us to give them a second look. The newspapers tend to have strong local brands for employment ads and can be effective for city-focused sourcing. I would say this aspect of the agreement will surely bolster both the local newspapers employment ad revenue and HotJobs&#8217; overall effectiveness in competing with Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting development &#8211; Newspapers will partner with Yahoo. I find it surprising that we are quickly approaching 2007 and the antique newspapers are finally making a serious adjustment towards an online focus. The dinosaurs of the newspaper industry may have made the move too late &#8211; it is hard to say. The younger generations are not newspaper readers. Instead, they consume their news in an electronic format. Suffice to say, it is a move in the right direction. One piece of information stands out for our business: The consortium said its first move would be to bolster Yahoo&#8217;s HotJobs online classified service, allowing advertisers to post job&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/yahoo-and-the-newspapers\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","category-sourcing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-7f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":940,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-bigger-monster\/","url_meta":{"origin":449,"position":0},"title":"A Bigger Monster","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 21, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We are awash in a sea of change in the sourcing options available to hiring companies.\u00a0 Yahoo! news reports in Monster signs up more newspapers that Monster.com has moved into more locally-owned community newspapers. Community Newspaper Holdings has 93 daily newspapers and is based in Birmingham, Ala. 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The future for them appears to be online according to Media Daily News: WHILE THEIR PRINT EDITIONS CONTINUED to slide,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Employment Ads&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Employment Ads","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/employment-ads\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1525,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/your-job-in-jeopardy\/","url_meta":{"origin":449,"position":4},"title":"Your Job In Jeopardy","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Yahoo HotJobs offers up a fairly simple article titled 6 Signs Your Job May Be in Jeopardy.\u00a0 I don't think there is any revelation within the article.\u00a0 I also find this revealing: More than 2 of 3 respondents to a recent Yahoo! poll believe their job is in jeopardy due\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":602,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/employee-retention-wake-up-call-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":449,"position":5},"title":"Employee Retention Wake-Up Call &#8211; Part 2","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"January 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of months ago we posted on an article from the Pioneer Press titled Speaking Up Helps Keep Star Workers. 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