The Morning Lowdown 07-08-11
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Reuters.com Gets Another ‘New Look’, Starting With Homepage
Less than two years after Reuters.com got a major overhaul to make it more “consumer-facing”, the site is getting another revamp that reflec… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-06-11
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Updated: Seeking Alpha On Track To Pay Its Bloggers $1.2 Million This Year
Financial analysis and earnings transcription site Seeking Alpha expects to pay its “premium bloggers” a collective $1.2 million by the end… Read more »
The Times’ Paywall Puzzle: Baffling But Beneficial
The Times reaches 100,000 digital subscribers and I’m still baffled by their online strategy. I ought to be better-placed than many to figur… Read more »
Penske’s MMC Rebrands, Promotes Racer To President
Jay Penske’s Mail.com Media Corp is simplifying things a bit by rebranding as PMC and promoting Chief Revenue Officer Aly Racer to the role… Read more »
Armstrong: Moving 53 Brands Into 20 Provides Better Focus
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AOL’s move to funnel its 53 sites into 20 “super brands” (listed below) is meant to offer a streamlined, more coherent set of content brands… Read more »
In Latest AOL Shakeup, Brod To Focus On Patch With Mapquest Thrown In; Memo
A few months after being named COO of the Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL), Jon Brod’s responsibilities are being narrowed to focus o… Read more »
La Tribune Starts Charging For More Online Content
French daily business paper La Tribune will start charging for more of its website, in a strategy to edge consumers toward a full-fledged su… Read more »
Guardian Sees Potential IPO Of Trader Media
One of these days, Guardian Media Group hopes to sell Trader Media Group and Emap, both of which it jointly owns with Apax, to reap a windfa… Read more »
Gothamist Begins Experiment In Long-Form — And Well-Paying — Journalism
Who says no one wants to read long-form articles on the web? The flagship of local news and culture blog network Gothamist hopes to torpedo… Read more »
Chart: Which UK News Sites Post The Most Stories?
Do more stories lead to more eyeballs? New data shows which publishers are churning out most articles – but is the strategy working? Hover a… Read more »
Salon’s Gingras To Oversee Google’s News Products
The other side of the news that Salon CEO Richard Gingras was stepping down is the word that he’ll be taking on a new position overseeing Go… Read more »
Salon CEO Gingras Resigns; Site Faces An Uncertain Future
Richard Gingras is stepping down as CEO of Salon, left-leaning news and cultural site he helped round up seed funding for back in 1995. Afte… Read more »
Updated: HuffPo’s UK Edition Launches July 6, 10 More Editions Planned
Second on Huffington Post’s international expansion list, after its recent Canadian launch, will be a new UK site, now scheduled for launch… Read more »
UK Newspapers Launch Their Own Pay-For Web Aggregator
UK newspapers have launched their own online service offering pay-for news alerts to PRs clippings agencies, despite ongoing court proceedin… Read more »
Interview: Guardian Aims To Double Digital Revenue In Five Years, CEO Says
The worsening state of the printed news and advertising market has prompted The Guardian to downsize in print and become “digital-first” ear… Read more »
FCC Report Cites Lack Of Local News, But Has No Ideas To Fill The Gap
The FCC has produced a 478-page report on the state of the media in the digital age, and-no surprise-the report has found a big gap in watch… Read more »
paidContent 2011 Video: Q&A With Keith Olbermann And Joel Hyatt
Why did Keith Olbermann join Current Media rather than try to use his brand to create a conglomerate? Olbermann answered that and much more… Read more »
Glenn Beck Tries Hybrid Pay Model For New Live Streaming Video Network
Glenn Beck may be leaving his Fox News show on June 30, but fans are going to be able to see a lot more of him: Following the announcement o… Read more »
Main Street Connect’s Most Ambitious Launch Yet
Hyperlocal network Main Street Connect has rolled out 32 community-based news sites in its biggest launch to date. The areas covered by the… Read more »
Google Extends +1 Button To Web Publishers
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is extending its “+1″ button to Web publishers, giving them a new way to highlight their content in search results by pu… Read more »
NYT Discounts iPad Access By 80 Percent For ‘Lincoln’ Subs
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The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is pulling out the stops to build a base during the first year of its digital subscriptions. The latest:… Read more »
Ziff Davis Hires New Executives, Plans To Develop More Tech Products
Ziff Davis has created two new roles at the company that are meant to expand its profile as more than a publisher of tech news and reviews.… Read more »
Huffington-ization Of AOL Continues With Daily Finance Reset
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AOL’s Daily Finance channel has been one of its most highly trafficked over the past few years, but as the integration with Huffington Post… Read more »
BBC News App Finally Hits Android Market
*Time* between launching on iOS and Android? Ten months, in BBC News’ case.
The broadcaster, with all its resources, has only today debuted… Read more »
Bloomberg’s Tyrangiel: Website Revamp Represents Best Bid For Influence
The remaking of Bloomberg.com into a more appealing news site for a general business professional and major brand advertisers is being fully… Read more »
Google Ditches Newspaper Archive Plan
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It was a key part in Google’s attempt to organise the world’s information – but the search giant has abandoned its ambitious plan to digit… Read more »
Hyperlocal Network Main Street Connect Buys CentralMassNews
Main Street Connect, which owns 10 hyperlocal news sites in Connecticut, is expanding its portfolio significantly: The company has just pick… Read more »
@ pcMobile: How Time Inc, Zite, & CrowdFusion Manage Platform & App Fatigue
Content publishers are facing difficult choices about how to direct often limited resources to a growing number of platforms and business mo… Read more »
AOL HuffPo Media Group On Editorial Hiring Spree Following Layoffs
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After a raft of layoffs and departures that followed AOL’s $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post in February, Arianna Huffington i… Read more »
News On Your Block: Google News Adds Mobile Location-Aware Feed
It’s been a rough month for location-aware services but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News is rolling out a new feature on its mobile Web site that le… Read more »
Bingo Full House Hurting Mirror.co.uk
Digital sales at Trinity Mirror’s national publishing are falling, because its pay-to-play bingo site goes on suffering from heightened comp… Read more »
Reader’s Digest Revamps Digital Strategy With Former Bloomberg Hire
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On top of emerging from bankruptcy, Reader’s Digest Association has been trying to remake its 89-year-old flagship so that it is more releva… Read more »
Forbes Still Sees Web, Print Separation As It Unveils European Magazine
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Despite wrapping its separate Forbes.com business into the mothership in 2009 after nearly a decade, Forbes Media’s top executives insist th… Read more »
How A ‘Business Class’ And ‘Economy Class’ For News Sites Would Look
Victor Wong is CEO of PaperG, an ad-tech company that provides online advertising platforms for local/hyperlocal publishers.
Oliver Reiche… Read more »
Wenner Digital Chief Schwartz Returns To Reuters For Biz Dev Role
Steven Schwartz, who became Wenner Media’s first chief digital officer about 2-and-a-half years ago, is leaving the Rolling Stone publisher… Read more »
Time To Look For Readers, Not Clicks
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Watching the Mississippi River spill deeper into downtown Memphis than it has in my lifetime, I went in search of something I wrote during t… Read more »
News Corp. Appears To Favour Softer Paid Model For Britain’s Biggest Paper
Back in 2009, Rupert Murdoch declared: “We intend to charge for all our news websites.” Two years on, and it’s becoming clear that some will… Read more »
Yahoo Hires Barrett To Oversee News and Finance
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has hired former Tribune Interactive EVP Robertson Barrett to oversee its news and finance properties. Barrett is the com… Read more »
