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1:05 p.m. | Updated Looks like Moody’s Investors Service was paying attention to that Gannett quarterly report, too. Moody’s on Friday changed its outlook on the newspaper industry from “negative” to “stable.” Which could be like a hospital patient being “critical but stable.”
Moody’s predicts ad revenue falling 5 percent to 10 percent this year, across the industry, and a roughly flat performance in 2011. For the record, according to the Newspaper Association of America, the declines were 7.9 percent in 2007, 16.6 percent in 2008 and 27.2 percent last year.
Earlier: Gannett on Friday supplied the first major evidence that the two-year free fall in newspaper advertising has slowed greatly.
The company, the biggest in the industry and the first major player to announce quarterly results, reported a 7.9 percent drop in global newspaper ad revenue in the first quarter, compared to the first quarter last year, including an 8.5 percent decline in the United States. Those figures would have been seen as awful in most years, but they represent a marked improvement from 2008 and 2009, when the industry lost more than 40 percent of
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Richard Pérez-Peña
Cuban-American journalist (born 1963)
Richard Pérez-Peña (born May 26, 1963 in Santiago, Cuba[1]) is a Cuban-American journalist who has been with The New York Times since 1992.[2] He has covered topics relating to Albany, New Jersey, healthcare, the media, and higher education. He currently covers breaking news.[3] He was featured in the film Page One: Inside the New York Times.
Criticism
[edit]A 2012 news story by Pérez-Peña on Yale University quarterback, Patrick Witt, was criticized by Witt and some journalists for unfairness and poor sourcing.[4][5][6] While Pérez-Peña defended the accuracy of the story,[7] the Public Editor of the Times raised concerns about the article, particularly its reporting a sexual assault claim based on anonymous sourcing.[8]
Personal and early life
[edit]Pérez-Peña was born in Santiago, Cuba and raised in Southern California. He studied European History at Pomona College.[9] In 1987, Pérez-Peña appeared on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! and became a 5-time champion, later appearing in the show's first reunion invitational, Super Jeopardy!, in 1990. In 2005, he was asked to participate in the show's Ultimate Tournamen