Where can I find a list of all U.S. daily and non-daily newspapers.
Ideally, I want contact information, rates, schedules (and anything
else that you can think that might be of value for assisting in
managing marketing campaigns) in a downloadable format. |
Request for Question Clarification by
revbrenda1st-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 10:26 PST
Hi, cmaury,
When you say you want to have a list, you do mean just a list from
which you obtain the information you need, right? I can point you to
such a list, but what concerns me is this part of your question: "I
want contact information, rates, schedules (and anything else that you
can think of...)"
The list for Alabama alone contains 60 entries (including nine college
papers). To gather all those details for each of them would be a
daunting task and frankly I can't do it for $10, much less do it for
all 50 states. The work involved would require a crew of researchers
and still takes hours and hours to complete.
Respectfully,
revbrenda1st
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Clarification of Question by
cmaury-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 10:34 PST
I am familar with www.ecola.com which has the type of information I
want, but doesn't provide the information in a succinct manner.
Furthermore, this site does not appear to have a way to return
detailed information with a broad query (e.g. all states at once, or
all papers in one state at once).
Is this the list to which you are alluding?
I agree that it would take a great deal of labor to manually construct
a list. I am looking for an existing electronic listing database.
If such a listing database doesn't exist, then what would be a
reasonable fee (in your opinion, of course) to construct one?
Regards
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Request for Question Clarification by
revbrenda1st-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 12:13 PST
Hi again, cmaury,
Re: www.ecola.com No, it wasn't that website. I was referring to a
site which links to the online pages of newspaper by state.
Well, I've estimated (low) the total number of papers at 3800+.
Supposing one takes 10 minutes for each paper, that's 38,000 minutes
or 633.33 hours or 26.38 days -- working non-stop, around the clock,
no days off, no sleep, no meals. A 12 hour day would mean almost 53
days of work, by which time your question would have expired its
posting limit. Some papers might take longer, depending on the layout
of their sites.
I've no idea how much a commercial service would charge to compile
such a thing, and the top rate here is $200 a question, which we
researchers can't and don't ask for. The fee is set by the individual
who's asking the question.
I'll continue to search for a ready-tailored list. I've found a source
for PA, but it isn't free -- you'd be looking at (with shipping and
handling) almost $40.00 for the printed information or $60.00 for a CD
format. I'm thinking I can find similar resources for most states if
your pocketbook can stand the strain. The PA information you'd be
buying includes:
- Names and addresses of member Pennsylvania daily and nondaily
newspapers
- Newspaper Internet and e-mail addresses
- Key personnel of all newspapers listed
- Market study information and total market coverage options available
from listed newspapers
- Map of the Designated Market Areas of Pennsylvania along with a list
of the newspapers in each market
- National advertising rates for all listed newspapers
- Important statistics about Pennsylvania newspapers
- Officers and directors of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association
- List of Pennsylvania Newspaper Association committees
- List of members and officers of PSNE (Pennsylvania Society of
Newspaper Editors), PWPA (Pennsylvania Women's Press Association), and
the ISCMA (Interstate Circulation Mangers' Association)
- Addresses and contact people from some of Pennsylvania's various
press organizations.
You can view it (with Adobe Acrobat Reader) at:
http://www.pnpa.com/publications/directory02.pdf
revbrenda1st
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Clarification of Question by
cmaury-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 12:29 PST
Hmmm, I have to admit that I'm surprised that the newspaper media
channel isn't organized better.
I agree with you in your assessment of the level of effort to compile
the list "from scratch" (about 60 days). In fact, that is one reason
why I've come here for a "smarter" answer than using brute force.
Purchasing from each state at a rate of $60 per CD (assuming such CD
exists for each state) still brings us over $3,000.
Please continue to explore other avenues for a better solution.
Thank you for your efforts to date.
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Request for Question Clarification by
revbrenda1st-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 14:16 PST
Well, cmaury,
After almost six hours, I'm ready to concede defeat. I tried very hard
to get what you want, but it doesn't appear that I'm the one to do
the job. If there's a free (or bargain-priced), complete database of
the information you need, I wasn't able to find it. I'm going to
release the question so that another researcher can try his/her luck.
I really hope your question is answered.
Regards,
revbrenda1st
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Request for Question Clarification by
webadept-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 16:35 PST
Hi,
I've found two resources, which give name city state zip
http://www.n-net.com/
http://www.newspaper-classifieds.com/directory/news-address/npa/npa.htm
These are enough to write a script against this website
http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgidir.dll?MEM=1&PR=108&LNK=3%3A155&C=&L=Fairbanks+Daily+News-Miner&T=Fairbanks+&S=AK&Search.x=30&Search.y=13
Which will give you phone numbers and other department information.
From there I can get the website page, by matching against the
www.ecola.com website. From the website I can grab email addresses.
This is of course well beyond the bid to do this, but within the range
of a GA bid if you wish to post for a higher amount I could compile
all this together in a single pipe or comma delimited file. As far as
rates and schedules and other marketing information, it would be a bit
out of bounds, but I will get some of it for you where the Perl
program I write can see it and list it in the file.
This will be a large file, but I have a server I can zip it too and
let you download it from there. I look forward to your responce.
webadept-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
nellie_bly-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 16:42 PST
Would you be interested in a source that provides all the information
you want in an online searchable database for an annual fee of $695?
You can search by type of newspaper, frequency, market population,
city, state, zip, circulation, format, politics, job function/title,
wire services, group affiliation, national sales rep, number of
employees, special newspaper sections, equipment, commodity usage and
much more. This database contains information on:
1,600+ Daily Newspapers
7,000+ Weekly Newspapers
1,400+ Shopper/TMC Newspapers
1,300+ Specialty Newspapers.
Information may be downloaded in standard delimited formats to your
hard drive including: personnel name/title, newspaper/company name,
city, state, zip code, web address, circulation, ad rate and
page/column size.
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Clarification of Question by
cmaury-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 20:43 PST
First, Revbrenda1st - thank you for all of your efforts. I haven't
counted you out of it yet, and regardless of the final outcome, I will
reward your efforts (even if I have to open another question directly
to you to do so.)
Second, Webadept-ga, if you think you can handle the task
successfully, I will see about digging up the coin for your efforts.
Please carefully consider *exactly* what you can provide and summarize
that for me.
Finally, Nellie_Bly-ga - I would *consider* the subscription only if
1) it could perform broad queries succiently (e.g. - provide a list of
all newspapers' info, at least for a single state, in a single query),
2) the information was maintained to stay reasonably current, and 3)
this was the only option. So, if Webadept can't pull it off, then I
would need to look at coming up with even *more* money.
Hope this helps everyone. Thanks to all for the work to date. Any
further questions/clarifications, I'll check this again on Monday
morning.
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Request for Question Clarification by
webadept-ga
on
30 Dec 2002 12:43 PST
Well as I said I can get a list in CVS format with name, address,
city, state, zipcode, phone, website, html page for contacts, html
page for about the company,
"ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS","3776 LAKE ST #
201","HOMER","AK","99603","(907)235-4244","http://www.adn.com/","http://www.adn.com/help/","http://www.adn.com/help/v-intro/"
If you import this line into Excel you'll see that the hyperlinks are
active and open the website. If this is good for you let me know.
webadept-ga
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Clarification of Question by
cmaury-ga
on
02 Jan 2003 14:21 PST
webadept-ga - that would be fine for now. I think it's going to be
the best solution. Post it as an answer.
revbrenda1st - go find my other question to collect your payment.
Thank you for your help here, too.
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Request for Question Clarification by
webadept-ga
on
05 Jan 2003 14:27 PST
Hi,
Okay, well you can either change this questions bid or close it and
open a new one for the more appropriate amount. A guideline for your
amount can be found here.
http://answers.google.com/answers/pricing.html
If it's reasonable for a couple hours of script writing and running on
my server with edits afterwards to make sure that all is well I will
certainly be happy to take the question on.
I like these kinds of questions, they give me a chance to use some
Perl skills.
Thanks,
webadept-ga
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