A security breach has led to the WikiLeaks archive of 251,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables being made available online, without redaction t… Read more »
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 »
As rumored a week ago, CNN has purchased Zite, the makers of a personalized iPad magazine application that aggregated content around user pr… Read more »
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As the East Coast prepares for a major hurricane, Zinio is offering digital magazines free to stranded travelers and some newspapers’ paywal… Read more »
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Russia’s leading search engine is making a foray in the nascent market segment of socially-organised news delivery, by buying The Tweeted Ti… Read more »
Slate, the Washington Post-owned online news magazine, is letting go “several” staffers, including media critic and Press Box columnist Jack… Read more »
Capital New York, a year-old news site that covers “how things work in New York,” has raised $1.7 million and is staffing up, including thre… Read more »
National Journal, the politics and public policy publisher headquartered in Washington, D.C. and owned by the Atlantic Media Group, is looki… Read more »
GOOD, the media platform whose tagline is “for people who give a damn,” is acquiring Jumo, the social action site founded by Facebook (and O… 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 »
“Wouldn’t it be interesting”, I thought, “if I did a little map of where the riots are?” So, at 6 o’clock or so last night, I started to put… Read more »
The world isn’t lacking for news about Brooklyn’s artisanal pickles, flea markets and beekeeping, but a new site, Brooklyn Bureau, aims to f… Read more »
The announcement is accompanied by a picture of publisher Dennis Francis wearing a Hawaiian shirt, but the news is all business: Honolulu S… Read more »
For about the cost of “a trip to Starbucks,” six Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) newspapers in Montana and Wyoming are adopting a metered pay mo… Read more »
E-singles are one of the hottest new publishing trends–with everyone from David Baldacci and Jodi Picoult to Byliner and Slate testing them… Read more »
Britain’s newspaper publishers, which are losing millions every week, need to find revenue somewhere.
Most are sceptical they can charge on… Read more »
The PR industry chief whose members must pay a license for “copying” online newspaper articles says his appeal loss shows UK copyright law t… Read more »
Here is the full UK Court of Appeal judgement in the case in which the public relations industry and a commercial PR news monitor have faile… Read more »
Remember that independent panel that was supposed to safeguard the integrity of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal after the acquisition… Read more »
The Associated Press is promising to change one of the more frustrating aspects of being part of a news co-op for some, particularly in this… Read more »
What, you weren’t glued to the TV or Twitter for the hours of testimony given by Rupert and James Murdoch and their former News Internationa… Read more »
If Rupert Murdoch turns in a performance in front of a Parliamentary committee Tuesday anywhere close to the one he gave in last week’s inte… Read more »
For all the media nerds out there: Phillip Mendonça-Vieira of okayfail.com spliced together a video showing about 12,000 screenshots of the… Read more »
More and more companies are starting to think of the mobile screen as an adjunct to the big screen, but only as long as you are still paying… Read more »
Over the past three-and-a-half years, Les Hinton had made a name for himself in the U.S. as something of a turnaround specialist, making goo… Read more »
News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) sent out a flurry of memos and statements in the wake of news that Les Hinton had resigned as CEO of Dow Jones and pu… Read more »
They say that nature abhors a vacuum. And so it should come as no surprise that with last week’s demise of the top-selling, scandal-ridden S… Read more »
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) has called in PR and lobbying specialists Edelman to help the embattled company handle mountin… Read more »
Glam Media, the lifestyle network currently the source of speculation as a likely IPO candidate, will offer sites it works with the option o… Read more »
» Swedish freemium music service Spotify is finally live in the U.S. Invite-only access and subscriptions started this morning. (… Read more »
BBC’s push to make money from its overseas businesses, particularly online, had a good boost this morning, when the international site, BBC.… Read more »
MSNBC.com will get a featured position on the opening page of mobile social reader Pulse, as the news website continues to explore ways of g… Read more »
Larry Kramer, the author of “C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today”, was founder and former CEO of CBS (NYSE: CBS) Marketwatch… Read more »
When the New York Times first began talking about creating a metered paywall for its website last year, the company was quick to note that s… Read more »
Bloomberg LP Dan Doctoroff is being promoted to CEO from his role as president, a post he has held for the past three years after serving as… Read more »
If you can’t manage the art of aggregation, stick to the science. Aggregation has been part of our coverage mix at paidContent from the begi… Read more »
Who was targeted by the News of the World?
The revelation that murder victim Milly Dowler’s phone was hacked is the latest, and perhaps mos… Read more »
Salon founder David Talbot is taking the CEO reins once again as CEO on an interim basis, according to an 8-K filing yesterday (via David We… Read more »
