Why CNN’s Digital Strength May Cause Problems For Fox
CNN has become a prime-time ratings afterthought in the cable news business it started three decades ago, as Fox (NSDQ: NWS) News continues… Read more »
Facebook’s Latest Scoop: Thousands Of Journalists Use Subscribe Feature
For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network reveale… Read more »
Mecom To Launch Digital Paywall And Review Future Of 65 Free Titles
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Mecom is to introduce digital pay models across its top newspaper titles, slash costs by €70m and potentially close or sell 65 free titles… Read more »
Interview: News Int. Hacking Scandal Has Spurred Innovation
News International’s recently-appointed digital product director is trying to make the publisher more agile and innovative in digital media… Read more »
Interview: 'No Decision' On Sun Paywall In Absence Of NOTW
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News Of The World’s closure deprived News International of data on which it could have based a decision to introduce digital fees at the UK’… Read more »
HuffPo Partners With L'Espresso For 'L'Huffington Post Italy'
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The Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL) is partnering with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso for the launch this year of an Italian edition,… Read more »
UK's Biggest Regional Newspaper Ending Web Fees
The UK’s largest regional newspaper title, the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star, is ending the premium online payment tier it introduced i… Read more »
North Korea's State Newspaper Launches English Version Online
As the uproar over New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane’s “truth vigilante” question continues, it’s worth noting that North Korea’s… Read more »
China's State Media Plan IPOs For Their Online Operations
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Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s… Read more »
Paul Berry, CTO: I Left HuffPost For The Startup Bug-Or In This Case, Mouse
Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the… Read more »
Guardian Starts Charging 280,000 iPad Readers From Friday; How Will It Go?
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Starting Friday, The Guardian, a stalwart of free content, will find out just how many people will pay to read its news on tablets. Read more »
How The FT And NYT Aim To Make Paywalls Pay
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(This version corrects an error in the percentage for the price increase of the FT)
Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a pa… Read more »
NYT's New Replica Edition Is Free For Print Subs, But More Pain Than Perk
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The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) increased the price of its weekday print edition by $0.50 this week, and home delivery subscribers will pay a… Read more »
Are Newspapers Finally Figuring Out How To Reward Their Best Customers?
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This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers.
One early sig… Read more »
Research: Internet Is UK's No. 2 News Source, But Only 3.8 Percent Pay
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Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source – but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says. Read more »
Mobile News Consumption Is Highest In UK
Nearly 10 percent of traffic to UK newspaper websites comes from non-computer devices — that’s the highest in the world, according to comSc… Read more »
Fine, NYT: HuffPo To Change Parentlode Name, Which They Never Liked Anyway
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Claiming it was a name “that, frankly, we never really loved,” Lisa Belkin–the former editor of New York Times (NYSE: NYT) parenting blog “… Read more »
The Most-Read Newspaper Websites In Europe
We often see national and international breakdowns of newspaper website popularity, but rarely by continent. Read more »
SAY Media Acquires ReadWriteWeb, Hires Dan Frommer As Editor-At-Large
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SAY Media, which in recent months has acquired Remodelista and Dogster and launched Jane Pratt’s xoJane.com, is expanding into the tech spac… Read more »
Examiner.com Will Provide Content For CBS Local Digital Media
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Hyperlocal content network Examiner.com is partnering with CBS (NYSE: CBS) Local Digital Media to provide exclusive content for CBS’s locall… Read more »
Is There A Business Model To Support Some Of The Great New Curation Tools?
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I love talking about the things I enjoy using. The emerging ecosystem in which a bunch of smart people curate long form journalism is defini… Read more »
New York Times Expands Into Freemium Apps With 'Election 2012'
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As it has done on its website, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is experimenting with a mix of free and paid content through its standalone ne… Read more »
Updated: Google Launches Currents, Its New Mobile Reading App
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Add Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to the growing list of companies like Flipboard, Pulse and Scribd’s Float with news aggregation apps. Google quickly… Read more »
New Funding For 'Storytelling' Startups
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Taking a cue from technology incubators, a new project called Public Media Accelerator aims to nurture public service media startups. Read more »
Who Are The Most-Read Authors On The Web?
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Which authors online keep readers coming back for more? Read It Later delved into its data to find which articles its 4 million users saved… Read more »
Netshelter Launches New RSS-Style Ad Format For Blogs
The blog ad network NetShelter, which counts with hundreds of technology blogs and some 4,800 bloggers among the sites for which it sells ad… Read more »
From Leanback To Stand-Up, iPad's Flipboard Flips To Phone
After demonstrating how tablets trump smartphones and PCs for leisurely and long-form reading, iPad’s new wave of magazine-like content aggr… Read more »
American Public Media Buys Crowdfunded News Site Spot.Us
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Public radio programming producer American Public Media is acquiring journalism crowdfunding site Spot.Us and integrating it into its Public… 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 »
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 »
Mail Online Won't Be Profitable Until 2013, As U.S. Investment Drags
Associated Newspapers’ digital operations, comprising Mail Online, Metro’s website and ThisIsMoney, lost £900,000 ($1407127.19) in the year… Read more »
Knight-Backed Local News Site 'Brooklyn Bureau' Launches
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The Brooklyn Bureau, a nonprofit local news site with backing from the Knight Foundation, is now live. The site will focus on civic affairs… Read more »
Why One Click Has Turned Google's News Strategy On Its Head
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It’s the little things that catch your eye sometimes.
To your average reader the almost microscopic adjustment to Google’s interface woul… 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 »
My Own Private Internet
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Trapit, a discovery engine for Web content from the group behind Siri, launches to the public today. The company describes itself as “Pandor… Read more »
CJR: Poynter's 'Incomplete Attribution' Problem Goes Beyond Romenesko
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CJR assistant editor Erika Fry, whose questions about Poynter Online’s methods of aggregation and attribution ultimately led to the resignat… Read more »
'Original Media Aggregator' Romenesko Resigns From Poynter Institute
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Jim Romenesko is leaving his post at the Poynter Institute earlier than expected amid controversy over whether or not he provided “incomplet… Read more »
Can Demand Media Wean Itself From Low-Grade Content?
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Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) may have pleased investors with better than expected (or less worse than expected) income losses, but the elements… 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 »
