Does the McClatchy foreign news deal with Yahoo! mean that ultimately McClatchy will join the “Amigos” consortium and pull away from Tribune and Gannett? Not necessarily but it does raise the possibility that all is not entirely “copacetic” within G, M, T and that the discussed/rumored G, M, T “Open Network” ad network may not happen after all. (Recall that McClatchy inherited Real Cities from KnightRidder as part of that deal.)
April 13, 2007 at 1:32 am
[…] Drops the Other Shoe When McClatchy announced the foreign news partnership with Yahoo! I speculated whether this meant that the company was essentially going to abandon it’s relationship with […]