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Nerd news may be what's needed to crack the paywall
Guardian – 2011-03-27
Content directed at movers and shakers and underpinned by accurate and informed journalism could make good moneyOne current load of excited hype belongs to Murdoch's the Daily, coming to iPads around Europe and the UK before midsummer's day according to Rupert Hints Inc. But since we don't really know how this tablet tabloid is doing in America yet and may begin to grow pensive over some reader reviews and alleged retention figures perhaps the prize for the most significant digital launch...
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News Corp hit by $87m NotW costs
Media Week – 2012-02-09
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has reported a 43% hit on its publishing arm, which includes its UK national newspapers, reducing the unit's operating income to $218m (£138m) as it was hit by...
GigaOm Buys Digital-Media News Site PaidContent
Editor & Publisher – 2012-02-08
GigaOm, the digital-media company that publishes a popular tech blog of the same name, is buying the digital-media news site PaidContent.org from London-based Guardian News & Media, GigaOM said...
Are investors choosing Journal Register over Philadelphia’s Inquirer, Daily News?
Poynter. – 2012-02-02
I was as puzzled as the next guy when I learned Sunday that the Philadelphia Media Network, publisher of the city’s two dailies, is on the auction block. This comes a mere 17 months since a group...
'French BookScan needed', says Gallimard
The Bookseller – 2012-01-30
Antoine Gallimard, president of the French Publishers Association (Syndicat National de l’...
Mecom to launch digital paywall and review future of 65 free titles
Guardian – 2012-01-24
Wide-ranging strategic review by new chief executive Tom Toumazis aims to slash costs by €70mMecom is to introduce digital pay models across its top newspaper titles, slash costs by €70m and...
'Big new trends' needed, say agents
The Bookseller – 2012-01-23
Reinvention is set to be a key trend for 2012, with top literary agents saying they are on the...
Anticipation builds for Apple education news
The Bookseller – 2012-01-19
Apple will today lift the lid on a hotly anticipated education announcement which many...
Express & Star Scraps Online Paywall After Nine Months
Editor & Publisher – 2012-01-18
The UK’s biggest selling regional newspaper, Wolverhampton’s Express & Star, has scrapped its online paywall less than a year after it was introduced. The paywall was put in place in...
How to make money from digital news
Guardian – 2012-01-18
There is still cash to be made from journalism when the presses stop rollingAdvertising still dominates the newspaper revenue model. Depending upon the particular country, it is not uncommon to see...
News Corp to Buy Minority Stake in Dubai's Media Company Moby Group
Editor & Publisher – 2012-01-18
Rupert Murdoch's US media giant News Corp is expanding its presence in the Middle East media market and beyond by agreeing to acquire a minority stake in Dubai-based media company Moby Group. Under...
Associated Press Opens News Bureau in North Korea
Editor & Publisher – 2012-01-16
North Korea has allowed the Associated Press to open the first full western news bureau in the tightly controlled and highly secretive country. The North permits foreign media occasional visits,...
Newport News Daily Press Newspaper Cuts 30 Jobs
Editor & Publisher – 2012-01-13
The Daily Press newspaper announced Friday it has laid off 30 workers.
Will Pay-Per-View Model for Online News Become the Norm?
Editor & Publisher – 2012-01-13
TORONTO — The head of Postmedia Network believes the newspaper chain’s competitors will soon follow it towards an online pay-per-view model as the industry searches for new digital...
News Corp. for First Time Details Tabloid Bribe for Story on Child Killer
Editor & Publisher – 2012-01-12
News Corp. (NWSA) for the first time publicly detailed bribery by a journalist at its now-defunct News of the World, telling a court that a former editor agreed to pay a prison guard to get a story...
Social Embed Makes Houston News Stickier
Editor & Publisher – 2012-01-10
To the shopworn adage, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em,” Houston’s Belo-owned KHOU has added an interesting twist when it comes to social media: If you...
Tamarind: 'more multicultural writing needed'
The Bookseller – 2012-01-09
Publisher Tamarind Books has called for more writers and illustrators to tackle multicultural...
US publishers create company to monitor use of news output
Guardian – 2012-01-06
The Associated Press and 28 US news organisations are launching a company to measure the unpaid online use of their original reporting.It will also seek to convert unauthorised websites, blogs and...
News of the World editor felt 'very bad' for printing Kate McCann's diaries
Guardian – 2011-12-15
Colin Myler says he had been assured by his news editor the McCanns were aware of the impending publicationThe last editor of the News of the World has said he felt "very bad" for publishing Kate...
Times says it should have credited Techdirt for breaking news about music website
Poynter. – 2011-12-15
Techdirt Thursday, Techdirts Mike Masnick broke a story about the federal government finally returning the domain of a music site to its owner after seizing it last year. Friday afternoon, The New...
High Country News sends out surprisingly truthful press release
Poynter. – 2011-12-14
One of the more unusual and honest press releases comes today from Colorados High Country News. The magazine announced a change to its subscriptions that allow full subscribers access to its...
Google unveils mobile-formatted news magazine Currents
Betanews – 2011-12-09
Google on Thursday officially launched Google Currents, a news reading application for Android and iOS-based smartphones and tablets, and publishing backend for content producers. Similar in concept...
News In Brief: Jobs biography top Amazon seller for 2011
San Jose Mercury News – 2011-12-07
Walter Isaacson's biography of late Apple (AAPL) co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has become the best-selling book of 2011 on Amazon.
Dermot Desmond increases Independent News & Media stake
Guardian – 2011-12-05
Millionaire investor now owns between 3.5% and 4% of Irish media group, making him third most significant shareholderMillionaire financier and investor Dermot Desmond had almost doubled his stake in...
Online-only News Brands Garner More Buzz than Print-Affiliated Counterparts
Folio Magazine – 2011-12-02
Online-only news sites received moreand more positiveonline buzz than their print-affiliated counterparts in 2011, according to a data-mining tool developed by digital marketing agency Zeta...
For Some, Digital Revenues a Sorely Needed Boon
Folio Magazine – 2011-11-29
With print advertising on the run, digital continues to rise.
In the year of the e-book, 5 lessons from and for news organizations
Poynter. – 2011-11-19
Mark 2011 as the year news organizations discovered e-books. Sure, Time Magazine tried one back in 2010, but this year at least 10 other newspapers, magazines or news websites have published at least...
News Leadership 3.0 -- SOPA: Could this proposed IP law chill news innovation?
Online Journalism Review – 2011-11-19
Controversial new legislation aimed at defending intellectual property rights is making its way through Congress. Its sparked considerable backlash across the internet. While protecting copyright...
Independent News & Media cuts profit forecast
Guardian – 2011-11-18
Belfast Telegraph owner revises expectations for full-year operating profits down to 74mIrish publisher Independent News & Media has cut its full-year profit forecast, after admitting the economic...
Sky News faces contempt charge over reporting of kidnap couple
Guardian – 2011-11-18
Attorney general acts over alleged breach of injunction against publishing details of Paul and Rachel Chandler's welfareThe attorney general is applying to bring contempt of court proceedings against...
Donaldson: Gloucs/Somerset ruling "best news all year"
The Bookseller – 2011-11-17
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 17/11/2011 - 09:30 Children's laureate Julia Donaldson has welcomed yesterday's High Court ruling against library closures in Gloucestershire and...
News Corp. earnings fall on phone-hacking scandal fallout
Poynter. – 2011-11-04
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How Twitters new top news search results will help (and hurt) publishers
Poynter. – 2011-11-03
Twitter is taking its first step to curate the news that flows across its network, quietly rolling out a top news section in its search results. When people rush to Twitter to search for news...
News Corp. profit hurt by British phone hacking scandal
L.A. Times – 2011-11-03
The media conglomerate reports a 5% drop in its fiscal first-quarter earnings as a Vanity Fair magazine story reveals how the scandal has intensified a rift among members of the Murdoch family.The...
News Leadership 3.0 -- The business of going digital first at Morris Communications
Online Journalism Review – 2011-11-02
Although the Journal Register Company has claimed the name Digital First for their new spinoff, JRC is not the only news organization making bigand longbets on the ascendancy of digital...
Too many ads with your news?
Editors Weblog – 2011-10-31
"Web design is in bad shape. In the applications boom, news-related websites end up as collateral damage."This is how Frédéric Filloux, general manager of the French ePresse consortium, opens his...
Big Canadian publisher opts for paywall
Guardian – 2011-10-30
Canada's largest newspaper publisher, Postmedia Network, is to to put up paywalls at all its 38 daily and community newspapers across the country.It suggests that its "metered model" experiment,...
Books are like the news its better when they are social
GigaOM – 2011-10-26
Are books just packages for ideas, or physical souvenirs designed to market an author, or can they become social in the same way the news is becoming social? Everyone from Amazon to new startups like...
Browser, Not Apps, Still Biggest News Channel on Tablets
Folio Magazine – 2011-10-25
While consuming news has become one of the more popular activities for tablet users, access to it is still largely conducted through a browser, not specialized apps, says a new study released by the...
MinnPost publisher: We wont try to capitalize on Star Tribunes paywall
Poynter. – 2011-10-25
MinnPost Starting Nov. 1, the Star Tribune will begin charging its heaviest users for Web access if they dont subscribe beyond the Sunday paper. The change prompted David Brauer, MinnPosts media...
News outlets look to tablet computer users for revenue
Baltimore Sun – 2011-10-25
More than half of owners read news on their devices, a survey shows, though there's not much willingness to pay for content. But there may be a way.With roughly 25 million adults in America now...
Tablet Users Are Heavy News Readers
AdWeek – 2011-10-25
A year and a half since the Apple iPad was introduced, a new study shows that reading news has become a big part of what people use tablets for. But publishers still have a way to go to get people to...
Apple Newsstand: can it crack the news market?
Guardian – 2011-10-24
The sales/subscription platform is a useful first step but publishers must also create more imaginative tablet productsCan Apple crack the digital news market the way it did with music? The...
Dallas Morning News publisher: No plans to discontinue printing daily
Poynter. – 2011-10-19
Poynter.org Earlier today I reported that Mark Medici, vice president for audience at The Dallas Morning News, said Monday during a session at the Inland Press Association conference that the...
News Corp. Ignored WSJ Aberrant Circulation Data
BusinessWeek – 2011-10-19
News Corp. was alerted to a plan to inflate circulation at the Wall Street Journal Europe almost a year before the newspaper's publisher resigned
Financial Times To Fold Paid Online News Service Tilt
Folio Magazine – 2011-10-13
The Financial Times will close FT Tilt, a premium online financial news and analysis service for finance professionals in emerging markets, at the end of October. "We propose to close FT Tilt at the...
Ex-News Corp. executive to testify again in hacking scandal
L.A. Times – 2011-10-12
Les Hinton, former chief of News Corp.'s Dow Jones and confidant of Rupert Murdoch, will appear before the British Parliament to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal.Les Hinton, a former...
News Leadership 3.0 -- Use cases for digital media: comScore report shows why they matter
Online Journalism Review – 2011-10-12
Audiences arent what they used to be, especially for the news business. Once upon a time, publishers and advertisers mostly cared about were audience demographics. Thats because most...
Planning a paywall? Maybe you should sell some e-books instead
GigaOM – 2011-10-12
While the number of newspapers and other media entities that are erecting paywalls or launching subscription-based apps continues to grow, other content publishers such as The New Yorker are looking...
ICYMI: iMemorial: Steve Jobs honored on front pages, magazine covers, news & tech websites
Poynter. – 2011-10-07
See how Boing Boing, Wired and other tech sites covered Steve Jobs death Wednesday, and how California newspapers and others around the world covered it Thursday morning.
iMemorial: Steve Jobs honored on front pages, magazine covers, news & tech websites
Poynter. – 2011-10-06
Twitter streamed with tributes to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as word of his death spread Wednesday night. On Thursday, newspaper front pages honored the 56-year-old technology innovator who changed...
Sporting News Mag Goes Monthly
Folio Magazine – 2011-10-06
This story first appears on FOLIO: sister publication minonline.
New trade group for hyperlocal news sites wont include Patch
Poynter. – 2011-10-03
Street Fight
Business columnist celebrates 60 years at the Dallas Morning News
Poynter. – 2011-09-29
Dallas Morning News The Dallas Morning News story (subscription required) on 87-year-old Robert (Bob) Miller says he has lasted longer than any other full-time employee in our 126-year history ...
Filloux: How bundled news can stay relevant in a constant news cycle
Poynter. – 2011-09-27
Monday Note Frédéric Filloux asks: Is the notion of having a news container, similar to a newspaper or magazine, a relic of the past? In a non-stop digital news cycle, what is the Read...
Google News introduces new tag for 'standout' content
Editors Weblog – 2011-09-27
Three things in this world are certain: death, taxes and the fact that search engine optimisation WILL make your site get more clicks - and therefore more ad revenue. Google knows this better than...
Will Google News new standout tag encourage publishers to give one another credit?
Poynter. – 2011-09-27
Nieman Journalism Lab
Baltimore Sun to put up paywall next month
Poynter. – 2011-09-24
Romenesko+ Memos The Suns paywall goes up October 10. To encourage readers to sign up at launch, we will offer a special introductory rate of 99 cents for the first 4 weeks, says publisher Tim...
Facebook links with publishers to make news super social
GigaOM – 2011-09-23
Facebook has announced partnerships with a host of news publishers that will now allow their content to be viewed within the social networking site. It's a bold move for the news industry, but...
In E-Books, Publishing Houses Have a Rival in News Sites
The New York Times – 2011-09-19
Swiftly and at little cost, newspapers, magazines and sites like The Huffington Post are publishing their own version of e-books.
News organisations: it's time to look into e-book publishing
Editors Weblog – 2011-09-14
When it comes to monetising digital content - an issue just about every major news organisation is grappling with - the discussion too often both starts and ends at the paywall question. This raises...
Americans spend just a fraction of online time with news compared to social media
Poynter. – 2011-09-12
Nielsen In a report on social media published Monday, Nielsen breaks down how Americans spend their time on the Internet. The results are sobering for the online news industry. Americans spend 22.5...
The paywall debate: monetizing news in the digital era
GigaOM – 2011-09-09
Free, digital content has shattered long-established ways of making money in the newspaper publishing industry, and publishers must now find new ways to subsidize content-creation costs directly....
Mobile News Startup Taptu Raises Another $3.5M
AdWeek – 2011-09-08
Even though Mitch Lazar, CEO of mobile startup Taptu, likes to talk about the technology behind the company's mobile newsreading app, he also admits that it's a challenge to stand above the wave of...
News International to cut 110 jobs
Guardian – 2011-09-06
Sun and Times publisher also reveals that almost half of former News of the World staff have taken voluntary redundancyNews International is to cut 110 jobs across its workforce as the company...
About 120 lose jobs in Bay Area News Group rebranding, streamlining
Poynter. – 2011-08-24
San Francisco Chronicle
Fraudcast news! Is bad journalism responsible for our bogus democracies?
Guardian – 2011-08-23
Patrick Chalmers, a journalist for 20 years who left a staff reporting job with Reuters in 2005, has been striving ever since to discover what journalism is, and what it should be.To that end he is...
Smiths News boosts business with airline and e-book business
Media Week – 2011-08-23
Smiths News, the newspaper and magazine wholesaler, has completed the purchase of the remaining assets of Dawson Holdings, which include its e-book unit and its newspaper and magazine airline...
Zinio, New York Post, The Daily make list of top-grossing news iPad apps
Poynter. – 2011-08-19
Min Online Several newspaper and magazine iPad apps are on the top-grossing list for the iTunes store. The leader among them is Zinio, a newsstand-style app that manages distribution of single issues...
News Leadership 3.0 -- How people use cell phones should shape mobile news strategies
Online Journalism Review – 2011-08-18
If you want to serve a mobile audience, it helps to know how people use their cell phones. A new Pew Internet and American Life report examines mobile phone use, and offers some insights that may be...
Breaking News: BBC Magazines sells its stake to Times of India owner Bennett, Coleman & Co
PrintWeek – 2011-08-17
BBC Worldwide's 50% shareholding in Indian joint venture for magazine publishing, Worldwide Media, is being sold to Times of India owner Bennett, Coleman & Co.
Marie Claire profiles top five female news producers
Poynter. – 2011-08-17
Marie Claire (via NetNewsCheck) The monthly magazine has picked five female news producers to profile. From the three major networks and CNN, these women who run the show share their...
Pexton, The Post and the paywall
Editors Weblog – 2011-08-17
Is The Washington Post having an identity crisis?It seems that ever since 6 August, when Patrick B. Pexton published his piece mooting the idea of a more populist standpoint for The Post, American...
News Corp.-owned comedy podcast mocks Murdoch, phone-hacking scandal
Poynter. – 2011-08-15
NYTimes.com The Bugle, a popular British news satire podcast published by The Times of London, spent three weeks hammering its parent company News Corp. and chairman Rupert Murdoch over the...
Labor board rules against Santa Barbara News-Press
San Francisco Chronicle – 2011-08-13
(08-12) 17:37 PDT Santa Barbara, Calif. (AP) -- A federal board has ruled the Santa Barbara News-Press committed unfair labor practices during a union-organizing campaign and it ordered the...
QOTD: No Good News for Newspapers
AllThingsD – 2011-08-12
Maybe, well dodge a second recession in the short-term, but the game is the game, and publishers are simply running out of good choices. Theyve been dealt a deck of wild cards, misplayed a few...
Study: Links from other news sites matter more than social networks
Poynter. – 2011-08-11
Outbrain A new study of Web referrals to online publishers shows links from other content sites are more important than those from social media. Links from content sites (including other news...
How Bad Is News Corp.?
AdWeek – 2011-08-08
In my biography of Rupert Murdoch, I referred to News Corporation as Mafia-like, provoking the annoyance of my publishers libel lawyers. I explained to them that I did not mean to suggest this was...
News Leadership 3.0 -- Avoid confusion, save your news brand: Dateline approach to flagging commentary
Online Journalism Review – 2011-08-03
In a world of distributed digital publishing and social media, many people are justifiably concerned about telling the difference between fact-based reporting and speculative opinion. One way to...
AOL Delivering Personalized News to the iPad
AdWeek – 2011-08-02
In an early teaser video for AOLs new digital magazine, the project's lead director puckishly called it the app for when you crap. But make no doubt about it, AOL's iPad app Editions which...
Newsbeat debuts as robust, real-time Web analytics tool for news publishers
Poynter. – 2011-07-29
The people behind the popular realtime analytics tool Chartbeat launched a new version today specifically designed for news publishers, called Newsbeat. It is a more powerful tool for understanding...
Can news publishers learn anything from Netflix?
GigaOM – 2011-07-28
Netflix is using price hikes to manage the transition of users away from the physical product and towards digital streaming. While there are some similarities between that and the newspaper business,...
Dallas Morning News kills youth-aimed free weekly tabloid
Poynter. – 2011-07-28
Dallas Observer Seven full-timers and two part-timers lose jobs with Quicks demise. Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney says closing the free weekly was a difficult decision, but frankly,...
E-books: Emerging revenue option for news publishers
Online Journalism Review – 2011-07-26
E-books are hot: Amazon recently announced that its selling more e-books than print titles. And e-books are now included on the New York Times bestseller list. So the time may be right for news...
In local community news space, advertising rules but its not the only revenue source
Online Journalism Review – 2011-07-26
Advertising is the top source of revenue for local online news publishers but many are testing other sources in an effort to diversify their funding streams. Twenty-seven sites, or more than 60...
New models for news: Northeastern University
Online Journalism Review – 2011-07-26
Northeastern Universitys Journalism Department proudly displays 19 story summaries and links to the full text on its website. What school wouldnt? Those are the 19 stories that have been...
Playing tag with news stories: Can attribution be built-in online?
Online Journalism Review – 2011-07-26
Where did that story/information come from? can be one of the thorniest questions to answer online, since syndication and other forms of copying (legitimate or not) are widespread. This makes it...
News Corp's UK political meetings to be published
Reuters – 2011-07-25
LONDON (Reuters) - Ministers in Britain's coalition government, criticized for being too close to Rupert Murdoch's scandal-hit News Corp, face more scrutiny this week when details of their meetings...
News Corp boss 'linked' to leak of Vince Cable's Rupert Murdoch comments
Guardian – 2011-07-22
Detectives hired by Telegraph to discover source of leaks have 'strong suspicion' Will Lewis was involved, according to reportsThe firm of private investigators hired by Telegraph Media Group to...
News International 'deliberately' blocked investigation
Guardian – 2011-07-20
All-party home affairs committee report into phone hacking to be published in time for David Cameron's statementRupert Murdoch's News International has been found by a parliamentary committee to have...
Time introduces All Access plan, adds paywall
Poynter. – 2011-07-20
All Things D Time is making it easier for readers to subscribe to its digital and print editions, and making it harder for non-subscribers to read the magazine online, reports Peter Kafka. He adds...
News orgs publish ebooks to capitalize on trending news, archived content
Poynter. – 2011-07-18
As more people buy e-readers and download books through digital stores, some news organizations are finding they can capitalize on their expertise and archives of information by quickly publishing...
News of the World rivals miss open goal
Guardian – 2011-07-17
Tabloid's closure meant there were 2.7 million extra buyers out there but some of the Sunday papers didn't seem to be tryingSo the News of the World is dead. Long live the Sunday, er, sorry Which...
Another top News Corp. executive, Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, resigns
San Jose Mercury News – 2011-07-16
Chief executive of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal announced he was leaving company immediately
"Last minute" bid needed for Borders
The Bookseller – 2011-07-15
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Fri, 15/07/2011 - 08:50 Borders could cease to exist by the end of next week although the retailer's lawyer said it has received other inquiries that...
Facebook working with news publishers to create Facebook editions
Poynter. – 2011-07-15
Forbes Jeff Bercovici writes that Facebook is working with about a dozen news outlets on app versions of their content that can be read and consumed right there on Facebook. He writes that CNN,...
News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks resigns
Media Week – 2011-07-15
Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News International, has resigned from her position at the embattled publisher.
Ailes could come out on top at News Corp. as phone-hacking damage spreads
Poynter. – 2011-07-14
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News Corp's Australian papers check their books for wrongful payments
Guardian – 2011-07-13
News Limited boss says 'ludicrous' claims that phone-hacking scandal may extend to Australia demand a responseRupert Murdoch's Australian newspapers have launched a review of all editorial...
News International switches Fabulous magazine from NotW to Saturday Sun
Media Week – 2011-07-13
News International has confirmed that the News of the World's fashion and celebrity magazine Fabulous is to switch to the Saturday edition of The Sun.
News of the World closure piles pressure on commercial sector
Guardian – 2011-07-11
Media buyers warn of damage to fragile marketRupert Murdoch's snap decision to close the News of The World has at a stroke removed more than a quarter of the total sales of Sunday newspapers, piling...
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