The Righthaven saga continues. Recall that the controversial copyright enforcer last week begged a federal court to lift a $30,000 fee award… Read more »
Starting today, the Philadelphia Media Network–which owns The Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com–is offering a discounted tablet to the f… Read more »
Float, the social reader iPhone app from document sharing site Scribd’s has added content from another 100 publishers to the 150 launch part… Read more »
While most large ad budgets have been locked in for the next few months, unless there is a miraculous and quick economic turnaround, the ad… Read more »
» BostonGlobe.Com Launches Today; Shifts To Paying Subscribers Only Oct. 1 (paidContent)
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In a remarkable court filing, copyright enforcer Righthaven today warned that it cannot afford to pay a defendant $30,000 in legal fees and… Read more »
With newspaper revenues in a downward spiral in the U.S., it’s easy to forget that there’s one area where daily tabloids and broadsheets are… Read more »
Lawyers for Gordon Taylor said he wanted to be “vindicated or made rich” in negotiations over his controversial £700,000 ($1,121,341.40) ph… Read more »
Journal Register CEO John Paton has been a vocal opponent of using paywalls to increase digital revenue for newspapers, as have his advisory… Read more »
John Paton, recognized for turning around the Journal Register Co., is now CEO of the considerably larger MediaNews Group as well — and wil… Read more »
As more newspapers roll out paywalls, they are looking for new types of content and services to entice readers, and are also turning to new… Read more »
To news executives who argue it is destructive, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has tended to highlight five things to the contrary – (1) its First Clic… Read more »
The Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet that has been the subject of so much speculation has just taken one leap closer to reality: a report just out… Read more »
More developments on the theme of printed newspapers going digital first. The Guardian has announced that the MediaGuardian, plus two other… Read more »
Combined online and print newspaper ad revenues fell 6.9 percent to $5.9 billion in Q2, marking the 20th consecutive decline for the industr… Read more »
With the Washington Post continuing to struggle against declining revenues and circulation numbers, the newspaper has decided to close seven… Read more »
When Hurricane Irene hit the East Coast last week, several newspapers took down their paywalls for all weather-related coverage. But when do… Read more »
» Hulu Japan Launches WIth Movies, TV From CBS (NYSE: CBS), Sony (NYSE: SNE), Fox (NSDQ: NWS) & More But No Ads (paidContent)
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Mobile news reading app Pulse is reaching out to a more mainstream audience with its announcement of three new publishing partners: USA Toda… Read more »
The NYT iPad app typically runs ads from about six different marketers in a given month. But in September, all the app’s ad inventory will b… Read more »
A little over a year after Gannett (NYSE: GCI) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) teamed up on local ads sales primarily for the publisher’s 81 communit… Read more »
As the East Coast prepares for a major hurricane, Zinio is offering digital magazines free to stranded travelers and some newspapers’ paywal… Read more »
Anna Tarkov calculates that the Chicago Tribune’s Groupon deal – two years of the Sunday ‘bune for $20 – works out to 19 cents an issue. Wha… Read more »
» Brightcove has filed a $50 million IPO (SEC)
» Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to Subsidize Subscribers’ TV Device (NYT)
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California’s Bay Area residents are a couple months away from losing many of their local newspapers, as the Bay Area News Group–a division… Read more »
» Newspapers Edit Down Outlooks (WSJ)
» Murdoch told me to have someone followed: Buttrose (ABC News)
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The FT and Penguin are two of the most recognized brands among those owned by media giant Pearson (NYSE: PSO). But should the company sell t… Read more »
An ironic footnote to the story from yesterday that involved the Daily Mail shutting down a proxy site for making unauthorized caches of its… Read more »
The Daily Mail is more than happy for people to share links to articles from its site — it’s an important part of it maintaining its positi… Read more »
Readers of MediaNews Group’s small- and medium-sized newspapers in California, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Massachusetts and Vermont will pay… Read more »
» If the current events of the world are scary for all of us, they’re particularly horrifying for news publishers. (Ken Doctor/Ni… Read more »
As civil unrest engulfed the streets of English cities from Birmingham to Manchester, news-hungry readers flocked to the websites of local n… Read more »
Some in the media expected the first News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) earnings call after July’s explosive hacking scandal — and the closure of “News… Read more »
It’s not clear why a publishing company like Tribune would think it has a chance to build an iPad competitor when companies that live and br… Read more »
Like its MSO rivals, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) saw more subscribers disappear, though it thinks it has a plan to retain the customers don’t le… Read more »
The NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) is rolling out a “new features” site beta620 to the public in a bid to solicit more involvement on the site’s fe… Read more »
While print advertising declines are a given for most major newspaper publishers these days, the online side of the business has still tende… Read more »
» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Fires Back At Microsoft’s Patent Offer: ‘We Didn’t Fall For It’ (paidContent)
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The Guardian is the latest news outlet to get into e-singles publishing with “Guardian Shorts,” a series of “detailed guides to topical news… Read more »
» Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) circulation chief calculates, by platform, the news people will pay for (Poynter/Rick Edmonds)
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