The Morning Lowdown 11-30-11
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» FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be ‘Liked’ (paidContent)
» Bets on Spotify’s news – radio… Read more »
Chart: Why Classifieds Mean More Than Mail Online To DMGT
Here’s why the most valuable part of A&N Media’s digital empire has little to do with news and its display ads, and everything to do with cl… Read more »
Comparing The New Aggregators, Part 2
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As tablets become more of a increasingly popular household fixture, the companies that package content for the devices continue make their o… Read more »
Express Invests £100 Million In 25-Year Future For News Print
Express Newspapers has turned on a £100 million print plant that it says is “a 25-year investment in the future of print titles”, Press Gaz… Read more »
News Of The World Readers 'Vanish' As They Stop Reading Newspapers
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The latest newspaper readership figures suggest that a huge number of people have stopped reading a Sunday newspaper altogether since the cl… Read more »
Tablet Journalism Is The Future – But What Are We Doing About It?
Here are some words of wisdom from John Meehan, former editor of the Hull Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT), in an InPublishing article, Sustaining com… Read more »
With The Kindle Yet To Hit China, ZTE And China Unicom Grow E-Book Venture
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has a substantial operation in China, but it has yet to take its Kindle e-reader into that market. That has left the doo… Read more »
Hartford Courant Settles Copyright And Hot News Claims
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The Hartford Courant, which provoked a lawsuit over an ill-fated aggregation experiment, quietly settled the case last week. The settlement… Read more »
NYT Launches Group Digital Subscriptions For Companies
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The New York Times is ready to start extending sales of its “all access” digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones to companies a… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-18-11
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» Yelp Files to Raise $100 Million in IPO of Consumer-Review Internet Site (Bloomberg)
» Has The Kindle Fire Already… Read more »
Updated: Newsstand's Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system’s early adopters, according to research data. Read more »
Major Newspaper Publishers Band Together On Social Shopping Portal
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A group of eight newspaper publishers — Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst, MediaNews Gr… Read more »
Longreads Founder Partners With Read It Later
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Longreads founder Mark Armstrong is bringing his long-form journalism curation skills to Read It Later, where he is signing on as editorial… Read more »
Next Issue Media Expands Digital Newsstand Beyond Samsung Galaxy
Next Issue Media, the digitized magazine and newspaper newsstand, has added several more titles from company backers Hearst and Time Inc. (N… Read more »
Borrell: After Two Years Of No Growth, Local Ad Spend Will Spike In 2012
The local online ad marketplace has experienced two years of fairly flat revenues, but Borrell Associates says that the space is on the verg… Read more »
Los Angeles Times Starts Publishing E-Books
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The Los Angeles Times will publish up to ten e-books over the next year, beginning with the $0.99 A Nightmare Made Real, which is available… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-15-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launches iTunes Match, But Puts Temporary Hold On New Subscriptions (paidContent)
» Gartner: And… Read more »
Will Highfield Dare To Turn The Scotsman Into An Online-Only Paper?
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Kenneth Roy has greeted the new chief executive of Johnston Press, Ashley Highfield, with a reminder about the parlous state of his company’… Read more »
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Adds iPad 'Digital Combo'; Site Still Free
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Some newspapers have added paywalls to their websites while their apps remain free, but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is trying the oppos… Read more »
USA Today Acquires Mixed-Martial Arts Site MMAjunkie
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USA Today is continuing to try to build up its digital side, as the print business struggles on, with another purchase designed to appeal to… Read more »
Kindle Fire: 'Also, Barnes & Noble, We Will Have A Newsstand'
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) have sent out so many press releases about their respective upcoming tablets this week th… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-10-11
» ‘I Am Not Incompetent’ – James Murdoch Defends Himself (paidContent)
» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Buys Voice-To-Text Start… Read more »
By Selling Stake In LMK, Hearst Sharpens Its Focus As A Tech Incubator
Hearst’s sale of a majority stake in its niche entertainment topics site/app collection LMK to digital holding company Black Ocean may not h… Read more »
Spanish Newspaper La Vanguardia Starts Publishing E-Books
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Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia is launching an e-book publishing program, “E-books De Vanguardia.” It appears to be the first Spanish newsp… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-08-11
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» NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won’t Be Replaced; (paidContent; paidContent)
» New York Times (NYSE:… Read more »
Update: UK High Court OKs Appeal Of Part Of Meltwater Copyright Case
Looks like a small window of opportunity has opened for Meltwater News Service and the Public Relations Consultants Association in its case… Read more »
Fewer Buyers Than Expected For Philadelphia Newspaper Tablets
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In September, the Philadelphia Media Network–parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com–announced… Read more »
Fas-Fax: Major Newspapers’ Total Digital Editions Rise 63 Percent
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Digital editions of the top 25 newspapers rose 63 percent to 2,169,843 for the six months ending in September, according to Audit Bureau of… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-31-11
» YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) Launches Massive Programming Push (paidContent)
» Google TV 2.0 Rolls Out But No New Hardware… Read more »
Cox Media Merges Editing, Production Duties For Its Major Daily Newspapers
With advertising and circulation revenue continuing to spiral downward in most cases, newspaper publishers continue to look for ways to cut… Read more »
WSJ To Run E-Book Bestseller Lists Powered By Nielsen BookScan
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With e-books now making up about 20 percent of sales for many big publishers, it’s essential for bestseller lists to include them in order t… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-28-11
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» Emily Gould And The Rise Of The Indie E-Bookseller (paidContent)
» Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spin… Read more »
Minneapolis Star Tribune Adding Metered Paywall For Site And Apps
Minnesota’s largest newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is launching a metered paywall on November 1. Starting that day, non-print subs… Read more »
Cox Digital Teams With AppNexus On Ad-Bidding Platform
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Cox Digital Solutions, the online sales arm of broadcast and newspaper owner Cox Enterprises, is the latest media company to turn to ad exch… Read more »
WikiLeaks Suspends Publishing To Fight Financial Blockade
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Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has announced that the whistleblowing website is suspending publishing operations in order to focus… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-24-11
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» Does Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook Also Want To Destroy Android? (paidContent)
» Steve Jobs To Biographer: ‘I’m G… Read more »
Murdoch Faces Fire At Shareholders Meeting With Contrition And Amusement
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Rupert Murdoch received the grilling he had expected at News Corp.’s shareholders meeting and was more than prepared in remarks that offered… Read more »
News Corp.’s Australian Adds ‘Freemium’ Paywall
The Australian, which is owned by News Limited and is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), is adding a paywall to its website, m… Read more »
NYTCo’s Robinson: Paywall Hasn’t Dented Pageviews — Much
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The weak economy and the About Group’s declines have eaten away at revenue gains that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) won with last year’… Read more »
NYTCo Swings To Profit, Beats Estimates; Hits 324,000 Digital Subs
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In various investor settings over the past few months, New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) executives had made sure to mention that advertisi… Read more »
