Gannett Q3 Net Plunges

Gannett Company reported Oct. 23 lower revenues in publishing and broadcasting offset gains in digital as third quarter earnings fell 4.6% to $1.25B.

Net income attributable to Gannett Co. plunged 40.1% to $79.7M, mostly due to weaker ad sales.

The publisher said softer advertising demand and circulation revenue comparisons after implementing subscription firewalls brought down publishing revenues to $858.1M (down 3.6%), while broadcast ($203.4M, down 14.2%) was hurt by the loss $75M in Olympics and political advertising from a year earlier.

Gannett is in the process of acquiring broadcaster Belo Corp. in a $2.2B deal.

NY Times' Pogue to Yahoo

david pogueTech writer David Pogue will move his reporting and columns from the New York Times to Yahoo under an expansion of the web portal's consumer tech coverage.

Pogue called Yahoo a company that's "young, revitalized, aggressive, and under [CEO] Marissa Mayer's leadership, razor-focused."

Mayer said Yahoo is in a unique position to produce editorial about technology consumers use daily. She called Pogue "one of the best technology experts I've ever encountered."

Pogue is a best-selling how-to author on technology topics and hosts PBS' "NOVA ScienceNow."

Dodd to Edit Post's 'On Faith'

Religion journalist Patton Dodd has been named editor-in-chief of the Washington Post's "On Faith" website, a partnership with digital church networking platform FaithStreet.

Dodd is former executive editor of Patheos and senior editor of Beliefnet. He has written for The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal and Slate, among others.

"We're going to reimagine what covering religion can look like," said Dodd.

The Post Company last year invested in the FaithStreet digital outreach platform for churches, a deal which included a content sharing agreement.

The Post said Sally Quinn remains founding editor and continues to work closely with On Faith.