Express Invests £100 Million In 25-Year Future For News Print
Express Newspapers has turned on a £100 million print plant that it says is “a 25-year investment in the future of print titles”, Press Gaz…
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Newspaper Advertising: Give It Away, Give It Away Now?
Are UK newspapers struggling to shift ads despite the supposed thawing of the advertising climate?
To fill spots, some are now simply givin…
Look How Many Newspapers Are Still Sold Every Day In The UK
How many people in Britain buy a newspaper every day? It’s a question of ten asked and rarely answered with any authority.
I found myself f…
NAA: Newspapers’ Ad Declines Slim, As Online Struggles To Maintain Growth
Compared to the past three years, newspapers in Q3 had its first positive — or perhaps, “less worse” is more accurate — ad revenue news in…
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Newsprint Price Rises Put Recovery In Danger
China’s appetite for cardboard boxes is threatening to undermine the recovery in the UK newspaper market, with newsprint manufacturers looki…
Some Publishers Seeking 1-Up From Casual Games
Newspapers and video games may seem like oil and water – but the search for adjacent revenue streams, and the growing band of “casual” gamer…
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Heatmap: How News Consumption Differs Across Europe
Newspaper readership varies widely across Europe. In France, for example, consumption is so low, at 46 percent of French, that the governmen…
Newspaper Ad Spending Keeps On Falling — But More Slowly
Some relatively good news for the newspaper industry; total newspaper print and online ad spending dropped 5.55 percent last quarter, the sm…
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Analysts: Newsagents Will Lose Out From Newspapers’ ‘Long-Term Decline’
UK newsagents are making 14 percent less money from newspapers than they were a decade ago – and the amount is set to fall a farther in the…
UK National Papers Lose 5.59 Percent Of Circs In A Year
Average February-to-July circulation for UK national daily newspapers slipped 5.59 percent from a year ago, according to *ABC* figures for…
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New ABC Circ Rules Count Packaged Newspaper Subs Multiple Times
The Audit Bureau of Circulations has modified its guidelines for counting sales of bundled and “hybrid” print and digital newspaper sales in…
News Publisher KM Group Digitising 150-Year Archive
By Roy Greenslade: Regional press publisher, the KM group, is to digitise its newspapers, which date back more than 150 years, after being a…
Forecast: National Newspaper Advertising Is Bouncing Back
By Mark Sweney: ZenithOptimedia has more than doubled its original forecast for growth in the UK ad economy this year to almost 3%, with nat…
Metro Goes On Making Profits
By Roy Greenslade: Metro, the free paper that distributes 1.3m copies a day in 16 urban centres across Britain, continues to swim against th…
UK And U.S. See Heaviest Newspaper Circulation Declines
By James Robinson: UK newspapers have suffered the most dramatic circulation declines of any country outside America since 2007, according t…
British Library Digitising 40 Million Newspaper Pages
By Roy Greenslade: The British Library is to digitise up to 40m newspaper pages and then make them available online. They will include paper…
Salvation Will Have To Wait: Newspapers’ Biggest Get-Together Is Off
The newspaper industry has cancelled its big annual conference, citing the industry’s “economic crisis” for the second year running.
Organi…
Newspaper Circs: Grim When Bulks Are Gone
By Steve Busfield: A grim month for quality daily newspapers saw large across-the-board year-on-year circulation falls in March, although th…
How Much For A ‘Free’ London Evening Standard? 50p In Some Shops
By Steve Busfield: Despite dropping its cover price, the London Evening Standard is now being sold again to some readers.
Distribution of t…
The London Weekly: I Print Therefore I Am
The new London freesheet The London Weekly distributed its first copy today – in the wake of much skepticism over whether it really existed…
London Weekly Launch: A Mystery Wrapped In An Enigma
By James Robinson and Mark Sweney: A new freesheet, the London Weekly, is supposed to be launching on Friday. However, doubts are being cast…
The Atlantic Says Digital Share Of ’09 Ad Revs Doubled Thanks To Branding Campaigns
Most major print magazines get far less than a quarter of their revenues from digital, but The Atlantic says it is now well above that mark.…
NewsNow Scraps Links To Newspapers Rather Than Pay Them For The Privilege
The newspaper industry is nearing victory in its fight to get commercial new aggregator services to hand over a share of revenues from selli…
Regional Publishers Put Faith In Digital Editions; What About Online News?
If you can’t make money from online articles, why not sell online versions of newspapers? Increasingly, that’s what the regional press is do…
Axel Springer Wants Newspaper-Google Paid Content Partnership
This militant paid content rhetoric is spreading: spurred on by Rupert Murdoch’s repeated threats to charge online users to read his compani…
Future Of Newspapers: The Three Rings of Existence
At World Newspaper Congress in Hyderabad earlier this week, I came across a very interesting presentation by Tony Joseph, CEO and Founder of…
A Song For Gavin O’Reilly
Mr O’Reilly, I really want to help. We know the denial phase. Hold my virtual hand and let’s move to the next stage. Let me start by offerin…
Newspapers Warn Aggregators: Sign Our New Licence Or We May Sue
The Newspaper Licensing Agency is warning news monitoring companies to sign its new content licensing agreement before the January 1 deadlin…
Greenspun Media Merges Print And Online; Job Cuts Hit Las Vegas Sun Newsroom
Greenspun Media is merging the print and digital sides of its Las Vegas-based media properties, including the Las Vegas Sun. The company’s h…
London’s New Freesheet Has £10.5 Million Investment, But Is It Enough?
Thought print was on the way out? Not for some: Global Publishing Group has raised £10.5 million to fund its forthcoming freesheet The Lond…
@ World Newspaper Congress: Someone Please Save a Newspaper Instead?
I arrived in a muggy but cool Hyderabad, India this evening, for the World Newspaper Congress, organized by the newly merged WAN & IFRA orgs…
New London Freesheet ‘London Weekly’ Planned
By James Robinson: Just when London commuters thought they had seen the last of the freesheet wars, a group of unknown investors is planning…
The WoW Paywall: What Newspapers Can Learn From Orcs And Dwarves
Newspapers haven’t yet found the secret sauce of getting consumers to pay online, but games publishers certainly have. While Rupert Murdoch…
Change In Counting Newspapers’ Digital Subs Masks Actual Circ Woes
Although the latest newspaper circ numbers showed continued declines, changes to the way the Audit Bureau of Circulations counts electronic…
The New Journalism Recruitment Drive: Charity Funding And Student Interns
Believe it or not, newspapers and news orgs are still hiring journalists – but not quite in the way they used to…
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Cause For Concern: Newsprint Prices Start Inching Up Again
Newsprint prices, which had corrected majorly through 2009, has started inching up again after bottoming out at about $460 in August-Septemb…
London Evening Standard: Bold Re-Birth Or A Free Folly?
Rupert Murdoch wants to charge you for content, the Financial Times wants you to be a subscriber, and even the pro-free Guardian.co.uk is pl…
Tweet Of The Week: Free Evening Standard Challenges Paid Content Othodoxy
As some newspapers try to make the case that readers should pay for both their print and online products, the Evening Standard is happy to g…
London Evening Standard To Become A Freesheet
The London Evening Standard has confirmed it will relaunch as a free newspaper on 12 October.
The paper, bought out by Russian billionaire…
Newspaper Print Sales: Will The Decline Ever End?
The question is no longer how far national newspaper circulation can fall, but whether it will stop falling at all. The latest ABC figures f…
Dramatic Rise In Use Of Innovative Ads; Downturn Forcing A Yes From Publishers?
Use of ‘innovative’ ad layouts in print during the first half of 2009 was nearly five times higher than the usage same time last year, accor…
Pittsburgh Daily To Try 'Members Only' News Site
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is dipping its toe in the paid-content waters with a new subscription site dubbed
Out of Little Rock: A Model for Murdoch
[by Andrew Clark] Tucking into a pulled pork platter in a Little Rock barbecue restaurant, the publisher of Arkansas’s largest newspaper app…
Why Ridding And Murdoch Can't Stop Talking About Pay Walls
Rupert Murdoch and Financial Times CEO John Ridding sure like talking about why newspapers should charge for content — but few papers have…
Newspapers' Disappearing Circulation: 500,000 Sales Lost In Last 12 Months
All you need to know about newspaper circulation is that it’s dropping rapidly, and the decline shows no sign of slowing. According to the J…
Corrected: New Owner Platinum Continues To Slash Union-Tribune Staff, Cuts 112 More
The San Diego Union-Tribune has laid off about 200 112 of its employees, the newspaper tells us (A source had told us earlier that the compa…
Dawson Holdings Confirms Division’s Administration, Sell-Offs
It’s bad enough running businesses that create and publish the news — try being a company that distributes newspapers and magazines to a sh…
Journalism Now A Charity Case As New Group Gets £2 Million Grant, Google Backing
The Investigations Fund, launched last month by a dozen reporters to find funding for independent journalism, is being absorbed in to a new…
Saving a Reporter, Sally Struthers Style
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The Time Must Finally Be Now For Grassroots Media
You don’t need to be reminded of the crisis facing local newspapers; after a brutal year of cutbacks, many are being emasculated or dropped…
Pink Paper Stops The Presses, Goes Online-Only For Now
The Pink Paper (no, not that one) is the latest newspaper to abandon its print operation – in this case, after 22 years. The fortnightly tit…
Time Spent On Many Top Newspaper Sites Is Dropping
It looks like newspapers are having as much trouble holding their readers’ attention online as well as offline. Time spent on 17 of the 30 m…
Wrong-Headed Newspaper Biz Tries Again To Charge For Links
You’d think the newspaper industry would be doing all it could to encourage links to its websites. But now it’s launching the latest attempt…
British Library’s Premium Newspaper Archive Undercuts Publishers
The British Library is the latest to launch a premium online newspaper archive – its site includes over two million pages from 49 national a…
AP Lowers Newspaper Fees On Hopes Of More Web Deals
The Associated Press is dropping its fees for newspaper members once again as it looks to strike more online content deals, AP…
News Bosses Tell MPs: Free Us To Fight Google
Newspaper publishers, in their latest plea for regulatory reform, want to be allowed to collectively lobby Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for story pay…
Ten Things Local Newspapers Need To Do
Forget the swirling debates over building paywalls or shaking down Google (NSDQ: GOOG), MediaShift’s Mark Glaser has some different suggesti…
Interview: Andy Ellenthal, CEO Of quadrantONE, On The Alliance’s Move Beyond Newspapers
The national online ad sales alliance quadrantONE, long an ad network for newspapers, is slowly branching out. Recently, it signed up D.C.-f…
NUJ’s Local Media Rescue Plan: Tax Rewards For Readers, Newspapers
We may have to file this in the “it’ll never work” drawer: the National Union of Journalists has proposed that anyone who buys “quality medi…
Rhode Island Paper, Circ 12,000, Will Charge For Online Content–In A Big Way
Most newspapers are tiptoeing into the world of charging for content — if they’re going there at all. But not the Newport Daily News . The…
Financial Times Receives FIPB Approval For Facsimile Edition
Financial Times India Pvt. Ltd, the India unit of Pearson (NYSE: PSO) Plc., which publishes the British pink paper Financial Times, has rece…
AOP Awards Gallery: Proof Of Your Drunken Antics
Uh-oh. There were likely some very sore heads around town on Wednesday morning (and we know who you are!). The Association of Online Publish…
Newspaper Publishers Hold Secret Confab On Charging For Web Content
Two dozen newspaper publishers, including representatives from the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT), Gannett (NYSE: GCI), E. W. Scripps, Advan…
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette A Model For Newspaper Paywalls? Not Really
When it comes to citing models for a future in which newspapers can charge for content, the Wall Street Journal often tops the list. But rig…
April ABCes: Traffic Down For Third Straight Month
Here, for fans of the urinating contest that is ABCe results, are Thursday’s latest monthly stats, showing Guardian.co.uk regaining the to…
AP Staffers Have Two Months To Accept Buyouts
As the Associated Press seeks to rein in staffing costs by 10 percent this year, the wire service has been offering buyouts to 263 eligible…
Harvard Students Now Embarrassed To Say They Want To Go Into Journalism
The Harvard Crimson has a distinguished place in American journalism — the main hallway at Harvard College’s student newspaper is lined w…
@ FOCM: Celebrity Media Faces Difficult Transition; ‘Even Paparazzi Can’t Get Paid Anymore’
Of all the categories, entertainment and celebrity media has generally seemed the most protected from the wrenching pressures of the economy…
Washington State Slashes Taxes For Newspapers; Will Similar Efforts Follow?
It’s not going to be enough by itself to save newspapers, but some governments are nevertheless trying to do their part to help. In Washingt…
The Wall Street Journal Facsimile Edition To Hit Newsstands On Monday
A facsimile edition of The Wall Street Journal Asia is expected to hit newsstands in New Delhi and Mumbai on Monday. The daily will cost Rs2…
London Evening Standard’s Web Re-Launch: Is That It?
Last week the Evening Standard promised us some “significant, innovative” changes on Standard.co.uk. What do we get? A new logo, a spring cl…
Non-For-Profit Isn’t A Business Model For Newspapers
Earlier this week, I took part in the Duke Conference on Nonprofit Media. The goal was to explore promising non-profit structures (e.g. 501(…
Why Raising The Pay Wall May Be An Impossible Dream
The worsening advertising climate is forcing many publishers, facing only modest online gains after a decade of digital investment, to consi…
Newspapers Halt Decline In Share Of Local Online Ad Revs
The slowdown in local online ad spending is having a unexpected effect: newspapers stopped the downward spiral in local ad revenue of the pa…
Mint To Launch Kolkata, Chennai Editions In Bid To Widen Footprint
Mint, the business daily from HT Media Ltd, is launching at least two new editions this year, according to two persons familiar with the sit…
Newser’s Michael Wolff: In 18 Months, 80 Percent Of Newspapers Will Be Gone — Give Or Take….
Media columnist Michael Wolff certainly knows an attention-getting quote. Appearing with Air America CEO Bennett Zier and CraigsList’s Craig…
Research: Going Web-Only Could Kill Your Newspaper
With the economics of news forcing the likes of Seattle-PI and Christian Science Monitor to abandon print for the web, doubtless dozens of o…
300 Years Of Welsh Newspapers Going Online Soon
The National Library of Wales was already digitising 600,000 pages of modern Welsh literature and factual writing. Now it’s being given £2…
Financial Chronicle To Launch Delhi Edition Tomorrow; NYT Investment Still In Limbo
One year from its launch, Financial Chronicle, the business daily published by the Bombay Stock Exchange-listed Deccan Chronicle Holdings Lt…
Hyperlocal Sites Make Gains, But Struggle With Dropoff In Online Ad Spending
As more newspapers face the end of the print life — or go out of business altogether — hyperlocal sites are going to face their first real…
Housing Bubble Be Damned: Zillow To Co-Brand 180 Newspaper Real-Estate Sites
Along with help wanted, newspapers’ classified revenues have suffered greatly on the decline in real-estate ads. While it’s not likely to tu…
Growth Of Online Revenue In UK Will Drop By Half This Year, Publishers Say
UK online publishers expect the growth of 2009 online revenues to halve from last year, according to Association of Online Publishers’ censu…
The Blueprint Of WSJ’s ‘Fundamental Shift In Orientation’; Keeping In Mind Newswire Readers
A week after Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson announced a “fundamental shift in orientation” whereby Journal reporters wil…
Pay Wall Renaissance? Everyone’s Interested, But Few Are Yet Jumping
We’ve wondered for some time whether the worsening economy and plateauing online ad growth will mean a renaissance for subscription content.…
Bring On The Techies: How Silicon Valley Can Help Save Newspapers
The author is the CEO of ContentNext Media, parent of paidContent.
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Cablevision To Charge For Access To Newsday.com
In laying out its goals for Long Island newspaper Newsday, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) COO Tom Rutledge told investors that the company plans to…
With Smaller News Staffs, Northeast Papers Collaborate On Content
Beset with layoffs and buyouts, five New York/New Jersey area newspapers are banding together to formalize their existing content-sharing re…
The Real Problem With Display: A Glut Of Inventory
Display ad revenues were down 25 percent for *AOL*, down two percent at *Yahoo*, and down so sharply at the *New York Times Co*. that it dec…
BBC Money Programme: Murdoch, Roussel, Rusbridger On Print & Online Challenges
In case you you missed it, here, courtesy of iPlayer, is Thursday night’s Money Programme from BBC Two – a sharp analysis of the challenges…
Some Analysts Are Still Glass-Half-Full, Reckon UGC Could Help Cut Costs
We’ve seen a deluge of 2009 pessimism in our inboxes over the last few weeks, from analysts and others – but some remain optimistic about th…
More Laid-Off Journos Becoming Entrepreneurs: New Model For Local News?
The local news business may have laid off 500 in just three months, but maybe some of those out-of-work reporters will help define the new b…
Online Or Bust: Why 2009 May Be The Nail In The Coffin For Many UK Newspapers
Optimistic newspaper proprietors in the UK like Sly Bailey and Tim Bowdler blame the business’ current malaise (we’ve covered over 1,000 new…
Newspapers Suddenly Adapt To Social Media; Nearly 60 Percent Offer User-Gen Content
Newspapers’ tough times appear to have spurred the industry to adopt the kind of social media habits that have led so many readers away from…
Weekend Audio: A ‘Perfect Storm’ For Local Papers?
Earlier this week, I and several other folks were interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s PM programme about the depressing state of the newspaper ind…
Newspapers Face ‘Impossible’ Crossroads In ’09; Should Consider Online-Only, Report Says
The sky really is falling. The market has become “impossible” for newspapers and magazines, and one in 10 will either shut, move online on…
Yes, It is Bad: Newspapers’ Online Ad Revenues Down For Q3 As Well
No point in sugarcoating it: even the online ad revenues for the newspapers are in a bad shape: For the Q308 numbers released by Newspaper A…
Election Section Perfection?: News Sites’ Presidential Strategies Prize Blogs, Tweets, Maps
Tuesday’s US election may be the most watched yet – but the Transatlantic time difference makes it unlikely Wednesday morning’s UK papers wi…
Freesheets Datapoint: Germans Likely To Pay For News, Icelanders Not So Much
Here’s an insightful chart from Dutch media researcher Dr Piet Bakker (click pic to enlarge). He’s run the numbers on circulation of paid…
Former The Age Editor: “Newspapers Must Not Become What The Independent Has Become”
A scathing assessment of an all too-familiar story. Michael Gawenda, the former editor of Austrialia
Top 100 Media Companies Revs Slowest Since 2001
AdAge has just come out with its annual top 100 media companies rankings, and according to its analysis, they only saw a 4.6 percent revenue…
Newspaper Sites Post Anemic 2.3 Percent Growth For First Half Of ’08, But Down 2.3 Pct. In Q2: NAA
Considering that newspaper ad revenues plummeted a record $3 billion (-16 percent) in the first half of ’08, perhaps it’s not so bad that th…
What’s That About Free Newspapers As Saviors? Oh Yeah, Ad Slump…
After debate over the last few years over free and freely distributed metro newspapers and how they represented the future of the industry c…
More Gloom For UK Newspapers, Web Gains Not Offsetting Economy
The outlook for UK news publishers is as gray and overcast as this summer’s weather has been, as the latest earnings testify. Johnston Press…
Dainik Bhaskar, Sam Pitroda Joint Venture IITL Launches MeraMobi
India Interactive Technologies Limited (IITL), a joint venture between the Sam Pitroda Group and Dainik Bhaskar, has launched a mobile appli…
Craig, Please Save the Newspapers; Here’s How
Steve Outing has written a very interesting open letter to Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, on how the classifieds site can help ne…
The Death of Newspaper…Analysts
An interesting story by Robert MacMillan on the slow death of, well, newspaper industry stock analysts, amidst the doom and gloom scenario o…
Hard Times For Newspapers Gets Harder, As Q1 Online Ad Growth Stalls At 7.2 Percent Gains
Growth for online newspapers’ ad revenue slowed sharply in Q1, rising only 7.2 percent to $804 million versus the 22 percent gains posted th…
Your Guide To A Minefield: Online News Measurement Explained
Counting people can be a bitch – especially when so much is at stake. This month, any one of four sites could be the UK’s top online newspap…
News Sites Still More Popular Than Social Nets, Younger Gen Still Plugged In
Think all 20-somethings have fled content sites to lob sheep, share vampires and poke each other? Think again. Some 42 percent of internet u…
Journal Register Shareholder Wants To Invest $25 Million In Company — If Lenders Restructure
Newspaper publisher Journal Register (OTCBB: JRCO) is veering close to bankruptcy. The stock, which fell from the NYSE to the bullet boards,…
Financial Chronicle Launches E-Paper
So what all do you have to do to read a Financial Chronicle news report online? First, go to www.mydigitalfc.com, click on the story in the…
Hindu Business Line Tries Podcasts And Mobile Version
Looks like the Hindu Business Line quietly rolled out some new features recently – a mobile site and podcasts. On April 25th, the first podc…
Editors Warm To Free Model, Plan Integration, Fear Youth Drop-Off
You’re reading it here first… The number of newspaper editors who believe news will become an entirely free commodity – both online and in…
News Corp Owned STAR Star In Talks With UB Group For Print Foray: Report
STAR India, a wholly owned subsidiary of STAR Hong Kong, and a News Corp company is currently seeking a joint venture in India for a print m…
Digital Publishers Expect Economic Downturn To Hit ’08 Revenue
UK digital publishers expect revenue growth to slow significantly this year, thanks to a worsening economic climate. In its 2007 census, a s…
Newspaper Association: Worst Print Ad Slide Ever Measured; Online Up 19 Percent
Newspaper publishers might hope there’s some truth to the old line about it being darkest before the dawn. A new report from the Newspaper A…
Business Standard Launches Hindi News Portal
Business Standard, the financial daily which has recently launched Hindi and Gujarati editions, has now launched its Hindi website: www.bshi…
Newspapers, Losing Readers To Web, Urged To Emulate Google
Paid-for newspapers are haemorrhaging readers to their free web editions – but only making about a fifth of the money they could online, acc…
Financial Times To Part Ways With India’s Business Standard; Deal With Network18?
‘Tis the season for breaking and making media partnerships in India — Mint reports that Financial Times is ending its 15 year old content p…
Print Bits: MEN A-OK on ABC, Libération Rebuilding, Birmingham Reboot
– MEN ABC: The Manchester Evening News has become the first regional paper to publish audited online traffic alongside print circulation. Th…
Newspapers In Spotlight Over Wire Fees, UGC Material
Controversy on two fronts. Eight of the big regional press agencies are complaining that newspapers are paying them too little for stories t…
Newspaper Roundup: BS And ET Launch Hindi Dailies; Deccan Chronicle’s Financial Daily In May
— Business Standard launched a Hindi daily last week. BS editor TN Ninan has a note on the launch here. The paper will be priced at Rs. 2 p…
Big International Appetite For UK's Online News
Mail Online, BBC.co.uk, Telegraph.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited and Times Online (in that order) got the majority of their traffic from outsi…
Papers Pick Editors From Business Journalist ‘Stars’
What do Will Lewis (The Telegraph), James Harding (The Times), Patience Wheatcroft (ex-Sunday Telegraph), David Yelland (The Sun) and Andrea…
NY Times Editor Warns On ‘Unreliable’ News From Google, Others
New York Times (NYSE: NYT) executive editor Bill Keller has warned the news business is falling victim to the
DMGT Earnings Preview: Data Usurping Information; Big Online Contribution Needed
The Times pokes through DMGT’s financials ahead of its annual earnings report this Wednesday and finds the influence of the Associated and N…
Archant Plans New Ultralocal Sites; CMS Vendor Switch Delays Rollout
Regional news publisher Archant has it’s own take on providing ultralocal news – tag every article with local post code metadata so that new…
Publishers Ready To Share Reader Data To Attract Better Advertising
A consortium of online news publishers has formed an alliance to share data on reader behaviour. Guardian Unlimited, News International, Tel…
Sunday Papers Remain Engaging, In Smaller Numbers
The National Readership Survey has found that Sunday newspaper readers spend an average 70 minutes with their pile of dead tree. The FT.com…
Welsh News Outfit Y Byd Confident Of Over £1 Million Assembly Funding
Forthcoming new Welsh-language newspaper and website Y Byd (“The World”) will “almost certainly” receive between £1 million and £2 million…
Houston Chronicle Lays Off 5 Percent Of Staff; Spokane-Review Also Cuts Jobs
The Houston Chronicle will cut its workforce by 5 percent, as the paper blamed falling ad revenues and the need to shift resources to digita…
UK Round-Up: Times Mobile, Carlisle Obits, Voeveo Launches
– Times: Times Online will launch a mobile website carrying display and classified advertising next week, NMA says. The paper already offers…
Dilbert Creator Imagines The Future Of Newspapers: Venetian Screens, Social Voting, Citizen Editors
When he’s not drawing his comic strip Dilbert, Scott Adams types out his offbeat musings on his blog. In a posting on The Future of Newspape…
Belo To Split In Half; Newspaper Business To Be Spun Off To Shareholders
Belo (NYSE: BLC) Corp. is splitting its television broadcast and newspaper publishing businesses into two separate companies. The plan is fo…
Jagran Launches SMS-based Shopping Unit, Plans Online Version
J9, the enterprise division of Jagran Prakashan (publishers of the daily
Local Newspapers Cough Up More Data, Edge Toward Full Audits
In response to demand from advertisers wanting to place more locally-focused banners, regional newspaper publishers are getting their act to…
Small Online Gains Fail To Halt UK Regional News Shrinkage
Despite continued digital investments, Britain’s regional newspapers lost around £225 million ($444 million) in 2006 – and online growth is…
Daily Mail Becomes UK's No. 2 Newspaper Site After 162 Percent Annual User Growth
Conservative U.K. tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail’s first set of audited monthly ABCe figures, published Thursday, reveal it is, in fact, B…
Newspaper Job Market Not Shrinking But Rejuvenated By Web, Some Argue
Layoffs? What layoffs? Though the perception may be U.S. print operations are shedding employees, newsroom integration and digital hires mea…
Newspaper Roundup: Lee, McClatchy And Gannett July Total Revs Decline; Online Continues To Rise
The newspaper industry dynamic of falling total and ad revenues, amid increases obtained by their online operations, can be found in the tod…
eBay Launching Another Free Classifieds Site in U.S.; Paypal IPO?
This follows the last month’s underwhelming U.S. launch of Kijiji, eBay’s (Nasdaq: EBAY) free- classifieds site…tomorrow, it is now launch…
UK's Daily Mail Extends Job Site Footprint: Buys JobsGroup.net For $20.2 Million
Daily Mail General Trust continues to ramp up its online assets. Its Associated Newspapers division announced it would buy the JobsGroup.net…
UK's Interactive World Buys Sport Newspapers For $100 million
Online and mobile adult content purveyor Interactive World (AIM: ITW) is buying Sport Newspapers, publishers of the nudie-laden U.K. tabloid…
Spanish-Language Publisher ImpreMedia Spins Off Digital Operations
Spanish-language publisher ImpreMedia is accelerating its online efforts — including acquisitions — with the creation of ImpreMedia Digita…
AP Ends Its Youth Multimedia News Service Asap After Two Years
The Associated Press’ attempt to connect with the 18-34 set is about to get disconnected, after it failed to gain enough traction with newsp…
Alt Weekly Company Creative Loafing Gets Funding; Buys Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper
In the world of alternative press, this is big news: two of the industry’s most venerated titles, the Chicago Reader and Washington City Pap…
One Year In, New Owners Have Barely Scratched The Surface With Philly.com
A lot has changed since local owners acquired the Philadelphia papers and Philly.com from McClatchy last year for about $562 million but the…
DMGT Buys 25 Local Papers, Extending Online Geographic Reach
Daily Mail General Trust, the newspaper publishing house responsible for the Daily Mail, said its local newspaper arm, Northcliffe, would ac…
Nokia Launches Vernacular Content On Mobile With Malayala Manorama
It appears that Malayala Manorama has launched a mobile application that pulls vernacular news content via GPRS, for Nokia handsets. The app…
eBay Open Classifieds Site Kijiji in U.S.
eBay has quietly launched in international classified site Kijiji in U.S., in an attempt to compete against Craigslist and others, reports W…
Newspaper Roundup: At NAA, Newspaper Execs Tout New Media, As Print Struggles
With print ad revenues declining, publishers speaking at the annual Newspaper Association of America’s Mid-Year Media Review sought to highl…
Indian Newspapers Survive Internet Onslaught, Outpace Global Sales, Ad Revenue Growth
Indian newspapers logged double-digit sales and advertising revenue growth last year despite the onslaught of cyberspace, according to a stu…
AP Will Use Fingerprinting Technology To Track Online Content Use
The Associated Press is stepping up efforts to monitor unauthorized use of its content. The company will announce a deal Thursday with Attri…
Boston.com, Monster Launch Co-Branded Jobs Listing; NYT.com/Monster Site Set For June
Online job site Monster.com is creating a co-branded help wanted channel with the Boston Globe’s Boston.com, the first major step since stri…
Trinity Mirror CEO Defies Digital Challenge, Expects Print Turnaround
UK newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror yesterday reported print ad revenue over the quarter fell by up to 5.8 percent, while digital revenue…
Earnings: Trinity Mirror Quarterly Results Down Despite Digital Growth
Digital revenue at newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror ballooned in the first four months of the year – but not enough to halt yet another dr…
@ NAA: Digital Approaching 20 Percent Of AP Revenues
The AP annual meeting is a regular feature of the NAA, the theory being that most of the publishers and execs attending have a reason to be…
Indiatimes Makeover; Livemint Removes Subscription
This happened last week, but just for the record: Indiatimes has also undergone a revamp, details of which are available here. The improveme…
Jagran Christens Its Mobile VAS Division J9; In Ramp-up Mode
Jagran Prakashan, the Hindi language media group head quartered in Kanpur, has found a slick name for its mobile value added services arm. A…
TimesOfIndia.com Gets A Makeover; Indiatimes Launches New Version Of Mail
First NDTV.com got overhauled, followed by the HindustanTimes.com. Now The Times of India has received a makeover:
Videos (from Times Now) a…
Hindustantimes.com Overhauled; Video Content Launched, Blogs Soon
HindustanTimes.com has been overhauled (looks remarkably similar to the New York Times website), with some new features aimed at increasing…
Chicago Sun-Times Revamp Includes Special Afternoon Download, Hyperlocal Features
The Chicago Sun-Times is bringing back the afternoon edition for the digital age. As part of a wholesale redesign of the daily newspaper’s p…
USAT Asks For More Usage Rights From Freelance Photographers; Multimedia Use
A controversial but inevitable move: A new USA Today contract increases the day rate for freelance photographers by $100, but in return dema…
India Today Group Partners With UK’s Daily Mail For Newspaper Venture
The India Today Group has for the first time received investment from a foreign media house. The Delhi-based media company has formed a new…
Online Ad Spending Up Across The Board, Helping To Offset Newspaper Losses
Online advertising is still seeing strong growth, while other categories remain relatively mixed, two ad industry researchers showed this pa…
New York Observer’s Parent Buys PoliticsNJ Site
We missed this on Friday: Observer Media Group, owner of the weekly New York Observer, has bough out political news and community site Polit…
This News & Paper Race
Robert Kuttner has written a detailed and rambling story in the latest issue of CJR, on the future of newspapers in U.S. Hard to summarize i…
Bhaskar Group Forms Digital Media Company; Pradyuman Maheshwari Editorial Head
Regional language media power house Bhaskar Group has hived off its digital media properties as a separate venture. The company, christened…
BCCL Acquires 5 Percent Stake In ISP YOU Telecom
Bennett & Coleman Company Ltd (BCCL) continues its investment spree: the Times of India reports that BCCL has acquired 5 percent stake in br…
London’s Daily Mail Launches Downloadable Version
London’s Daily Mail launched its first “e-paper edition” Monday, which the company is pitching as a halfway point between website and newspr…
Nowegian Newspaper Publisher Schibsted’s Online Flanking Strategy
IHT has a nice profile of Schibsted, the Norwegian newspaper publisher which is doing very well online, contrary to tghe fate of other newsp…
The Minty Way, Even If Slightly Unclear
After waiting for about an hour and a half at the offices of the new business paper ‘Mint’ from Hindustan Times (HT), I wasn’t hoping for a…
The Hindu Bites The Bullet; Makes It E-Paper Pay At $10 A Month
If you can’t monetise the service through advertising, then paid subscription is the alternative usually adopted to keep the service alive.…
British Newspapers Argue Over Who’s Number One Online
Back in the U.K., where people still read newspapers, there’s some good old-fashioned arguing over which paper is getting the biggest audien…
The Future Of Newspapers: More Local Or More Fawning Interviews?
Steve Outing starts with the reality — the print newspaper audience is aging — in his latest for E&P but goes beyond the traditional whin…
Earnings: McClatchy Reports Mixed Bag For 4Q06
McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) reported a mixed 4Q06, as the Sacramento, CA-based newspaper publisher wrestled with absorbing last summer
Deccan Herald’s Jobs Portal Is Live
Deccan Herald’s jobs portal DHAvenues is live, but still under development. I spoke to D.B. Dutta, VP Marketing and Circulation, Deccan Hera…
HT-Times Combine's Delhi Metro Paper To Hit Market Soon
As HT Media’s new business paper Mint is hitting readers’ doorsteps on Thursday morning, Delhi readers will be treated to another newspaper…
Content From 9 Newspapers Made Available Via WAP Portal
We’ve written earlier about a mobile paper application from Cellnext being piloted in India. Now Pressmart and IMI Mobile have launched some…
Updated: HT Launches Business Paper – Mint
Hindustan Times has announced the launch of it’s business newspaper, called Mint. The word doing the rounds is that ‘Mint’ stands for Money,…
Sac Bee Introduces Fee-Based Site Aimed At Politicos' Deep Pockets
Most newspapers have tried to find ways of offering online readers special access in return for a small fee. The goal has been to reach as m…
@Digital Summit: Cross Media Promotions; Rural VAS Adoption; The Rural Consumer
So, what’s driving adoption beyond metropolitan cities? We got some answers from the IAMAI Digital Summit at the Maurya Sheraton in New Delh…
Ambitious Multi-Platform Political News Effort Politico Launches
The Politico, the new multi-platform political news service funded by Robert Albritton, opened for business online this morning. Its ambitio…
Yahoo Expands Display Ad Deals With Morris Newspaper Group
Morris Communications, owner of 27 daily newspapers in 15 states, is the latest news media company to enter into a partnership with Yahoo. (…
Scripps Considers Newspaper Sell-Off To Focus On Internet, Cable
This may be as historic an event as any in the newspaper industry: Scripps, among the first newspaper chains ever founded in U.S. (starting…
E-Papers Launched For Dainik Bhaskar, Divya Bhaskar And DNA
The Bhaskar Group has launched e-papers for their newspapers – Dainik Bhaskar, Divya Bhaskar and Daily News and Analysis, reports agencyfaqs…
Inquirer Layoffs Sink In; React Includes View Of Online As Culprit And Solution
Earlier this week, we reported that the Philadelphia Inquirer laid off 68 people in the newsroom. As the news sinks in, the anger and despai…
Philadelphia Inquirer Lays Off 68; Online Saves a Few
The strike at the Philadelphia Inquirer didn’t happen, but if there was one now there would be many less people on the picket line. Sixty-ei…
Washington Post Bridges Newsroom Divide Between Print and Online
Starting in January, The Washington Post
Online Job Ads Outweighed Print Media In 2006 For First Time
Companies looking for new hires are placing more of their pleas online than on newsprint – a study by Borrell Associates notes that nearly $…
Forget The Future — Web-Alike Newspapers Are Here Now
As more readers go online to read their newspapers, the newspapers of the near-future — say, 2011 — will look a lot like and read a lot m…
Disney Adventures Magazine To Launch In India; Condé Nast Announces India Team For Vogue
Here are the latest two global magazines making their entry into India. The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company will be launching an Indian edit…
@ Media Week: UBS: Borell: Online Reps More Than 50 Percent Of Newspapers’ Revenue Growth
One of the staples for UBS is a forecast morning chock-full of stats and this was it. On the newspaper side, lots of data from Gordon Borrel…
Philadelphia Newspaper Strike Deadline Thursday Night; Union Plans Competitive Online Newspaper
Tomorrow at midnight is the strike deadline for The Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia, which represents the staffs of the Philadelphia…
Online Editions of English Newspapers In India Have More Domestic Readers Thans NRIs: Survey
A survey shows that the online editions of English newspapers in India have a higher number of readers residing in the country than outside.…
Newspaper Ad Revenues Fall For The First Time In Two Years
So says a Newspaper Association of America review, which began measuring combines print and online revenues since 2004: Combined print and o…
CareerSite Sold To MediaNews, Hearst and Lee Triumverate, Following Yahoo-Newspapers Deal
As we had hinted before, the last piece of the puzzle in the Yahoo-newspapers deal: PowerOne Media, operator of CareerSite (also branded as…
Californian Newspapers Outsource Advertising Jobs To India
Now advertising jobs are being outsourced to India. It’s done by newspapers directly to ad design shops located in India. For instance, adve…
Haymarket Plans To Launch Its Gadget Magazine Stuff In India
More and more specialist magazines are heading to India. UK’s Haymarket plans to launch the India edition of its successful gadget magazine…
Ajax-based Local Events Site Zvents Raises First Round Of $7 Million
As Matt Marshall notes, Zvents’ ability to raise a first round of $7 million also raises questions about the business model and how the inve…
Indian Express Group Ties Up With TechTarget To Publish Tech-focused Magazines, Websites In India
Indian Express Group is busy striking international strategic partnership deals. Close on the heels of a wide ranging content tie-up with Th…
What The Youth Wants: Trends In Media Consumption
A Businessworld special issue (subscription required) attempts to demystify the Indian youth: according to a Hansa survey, the Indian youth…
Topix Tries Again; Raises $15 Million Funding
Topix.net, the news search engine, is trying various ways to get out of its rut of low visibility and corporate shakeups of its majority own…
Divya Bhaskar Group Editor In Chief Leaves To Focus On Specialized Content Creation
Agencyfaqs reports that Aakar Patel, Group Editor-in-Chief,
Indian Express Group Signs Content Deal With The Economist
The Indian Express Group has signed a “wide-ranging content agreement” with The Economist magazine. The deal involves syndication of The Eco…
@IMC 2006: The Paid Content Strategy Has Not Worked Online
Please note: paid content, not paidContent. At the IMC 2006 organized by the Association of Indian Magazines I found that very few magazines…
Cellnext plans to offer Newspaper Content On Mobile
At the IMC 2006 yesterday, I’d asked the panelists discussing digital content why they aren’t looking at mobile phones for content delivery,…
Expect New Digital Initiatives From The India Today Group Over The Next Six Months
In an interview with exchange4media, Ashish Bagga, CEO Living Media Ltd (the India Today Group) confesses that they were a little too ahead…
@ World Digital Publishing Expo: Reversing A Paid Access Model?
Now here’s a funny one. This afternoon’s session on paid content models for newspaper sites picked out all the usual examples about paid arc…
@ World Digital Publishing Expo: Scripps’ ‘Gorilla’ Tactics
The opening reminded me of Airwolf (remember that?!) for some reason – big snazzy neons and big eighties keyboard noises. There are some big…
ABP Open To Acquiring “Anything That Drives Traffic And Fetches Advertisements”
In an interview with Business Standard, Pramath Raj Sinha, MD & CEO of ABP Pvt Ltd says that they are looking for more partnerships and acqu…
HT To Focus On Internet Business; May Hive It Off
In an interview with Moneycontrol.com, HT Media CEO Rajiv Verma says that HT will be focusing on their Internet business because of a global…
UK Web Use; Doctor Who; Associated; Times; Guardian; Teletext
— Two thirds of the UK have dabbled in digital: A quarter of all UK web users have started their own blog or website, a quarter have downlo…
Craigslist Revenues Could Reach $50 Million In 2007: Report
Craigslist could be earning as much as $50 million in annual revenue as a result of extending its listings charges to four more cities, ac…
Merrill Lynch: Ad Slowdown Coming; Internet Still Bright Spot — For Now
The ad-slowdown pile-on continues. This time it’s not about whether Yahoo has a problem and, if so, if it might apply to the larger Internet…
UK’s Financial Times To Launch In India; Awaits Government Nod
Exchange4media.com: UK’s Financial Times is planning to launch an independent edition in India. As per the current regulations, it has to be…
Interview: Annelies van den Belt, New Media Director for Telegraph Group
UK’s Telegraph Group bit the convergence challenge bullet last month with a much-publicized move to a new premises and integrated newsroom.…
DNA Newspaper Appoints ex-Shell man K U Rao As CEO
Exchange4media: Diligent Media, the company that owns Mumbai newspaper DNA, has appointed K U Rao as CEO. Rao will report to Managing Direct…
NAA: Traffic To Newspaper Sites Up 30 Percent In 1H06
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Hindustan Times, Times of India Sign MoU For Newspaper Joint Venture
We had reported this on September 16. The newspaper rivals Hindustan Times and The Times of India have joined hands to start a new daily mor…
Newspapers Should Push Into Niche Areas & Experimental Ventures: Study
The American Press Institute has spent a year examining new business models and publishing initiatives that would help newspapers tackle fal…
WashingtonPost.com Wins First Broadband News Emmy
[By Jimmy Guterman] As Neil Young once shouted to an audience bombarding him with requests, â
Times Teams Up With HT For A Morning Daily In Delhi
Exchange4media has a story today on The Times of India joining hands with Hindustan Times for a new morning English daily in Delhi. By the w…
“In India, Print Media Is Just Being Invented”
Guardian (Via Gulf Times): India would remain a happening print market for sometime to come. While in the rest of the world (read developed…
German Pure-Web Newspaper In Line For $10 Million Revenues
Netzeitung.de is a six-year-old web-only German newspaper that has a team of 60 journalists, an army of citizen reporters – and which is in…
India Today Plans Morning Daily In Delhi; To Counter Times’ New Morning Launch
India is still a thriving print media market. Now we hear that The India Today group is planning a morning daily general newspaper. It may b…
Jagran To Publish Facsimile Version Of UK Newspaper “The Independent”
Agencyfaqs.com: UK newspaper The Independent will be printed in India. Uttar Pradesh-based Jagran Prakashan Ltd (JPL), the publishers of th…
UK Telegraph Announces Content-Sharing Plans With Broadcaster ITN
Convergence, of sorts: The Telegraph has just announced a strategic partnership with ITN under which ITN will provide multimedia content for…
Business Line To Launch E-Paper From Sunday
The Hindu Business Line will be one of the last major newspapers in India to launch an epaper. The digital paper will be launched on Sunday,…
R Sukumar Is Deputy Managing Editor Of HT’s New Business Daily
HT Media’s soon-to-be launched business daily will have a deputy managing editor. The company has hired R Sukumar, Managing Editor of Busine…
Naukri.com To Power Job Listings Of Infomedia Magazines
Cross media alliances are a good way to promote your products and services. Naukri.com has entered into a strategic tie-up with the Infomedi…
News International Goes Social & Online In London Freesheet War
News International has chosen a social net-ish format for its new freesheet thelondonpaper.com though there’s so little content on it it’s h…
UK Telegraph’s Digital & Print Integration May Cost 70 More Jobs
Investment in digital media and a move to new premises will mean more layoffs at the Telegraph Group. In a letter to senior print managers,…
Disney To Launch Children’s Magazine In India
Walt Disney India is launching its print magazine, Disney Adventures, in India. The children’s entertainment company has tied up with Infome…
UK’s Associated Newspapers Pays $41.7 Million For Consumer Site
The UK’s Associated Newspapers, owned by media group the Daily Mail and General Trust, has paid $41.7 million for consumer finance company S…
Journal Register To Sell Regional Papers To Focus On Online; DJ Mulling The Same
Newspaper publisher Journal Register is exploring the sale of 26 Massachusetts and Rhode Island publications due to slower growth and becaus…
Wall Street Journal & MarketWatch To Syndicate Stories To HT’s New Biz Paper and Website
Updated: This is interesting: Sobhana Bhartia, editorial director of Hindustan Times, told a TV channel that details regarding content shari…
Trinity Mirror’s Profits Plunge; Review May Include Sale
UK newspaper group Trinity Mirror is in a lot of trouble: it is to launch a comprehensive review of its entire business after pre-tax profit…
Sun-Times Media Group Acquires City Guide CenterstageChicago.com
Sun-Times Media Group, formerly Hollinger International, has acquired the online city guide Centerstage Chicago. CCC provides data on the ci…
More On Monster & Deal With Philly.com; Other Possibilities
Monster.com’s 2Q06 earnings just happened to coincide with the announcement that the Philadelphia newspapers and Philly.com would be switchi…
Bakersfield Californian To Sell Its Social Software Tool
This is interesting only because it shows that at the end of the day, it is about the platform you build, and what it enables: The Bakersfie…
CareerBuilder Loses Philly.com; Monster Gets First Major Newspaper Deal
The ripple effects from McClatchy’s acquisition of Knight Ridder and its sale of a dozen former KR newspapers and their companion web sites…
Bizjournals.com: Online Content From Print Pubs For Print Subs Only
Effective Monday, American City Business Journals is cutting off open access to print articles posted online at the 42 local sites that are…
Narisetti on Coming Back To India
Raju Narisetti, the editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe who is now heading back to India to head HT’s new business paper, spoke at the…
Daily Mail Group Buys Three Classified Websites For $31 Million
In UK, the newspaper/media group Daily Mail and General Trust, through its subsidiary Associated Newspapers, has spent about $31 million on…
Broadband Emmys For Newspaper Sites; What Gives?
This has generated some amount of commentary over the last week: that NYT and WaPo led the slate of nominees for the first-ever Emmy Award f…
Journal Sentinel Acquires MilwaukeeMoms.com
The Journal Sentinel, publisher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has bought out local parenting resource site MilwaukeeMoms.com. Terms of…
IDG India Launches PC World, Website PCworld.in
Exchange4media.com: IDG Media Pvt Ltd, the Indian arm of the technology publishing group International Data Group, has launched the Indian e…
North Carolina Paper Will Provide Free Local WiFi; Plans Paid WiMax
I’ve seen a lot of WiFi models lately but this appears to be the first from a local newspaper. (You’ll let me know if I’m wrong, I’m sure.)…
@ Media Giraffe: Moving New Media To Mainstream
It’s barely 10 a.m. in Amherst and we’re already well into the second session. I’m not going to post the blow-by-blow here about doing journ…
Media Giraffe: Re-thinking The News
Jemima and I are at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, participating in the Media Giraffe conference “Democracy Independence: Shar…
Mumbai’s Mid Day To Launch Bangalore Edition, E-paper
Exchang4media.com: Mumbai-based Mid Day Multimedia is going beyond Mumbai with its highly popular afternooner. The company is celebrating it…
NAA Mid Year: Beyond 10 Percent And It’s Real Money
One statement stands out from the coverage of the NAA Mid-Year Media Review … At Belo, online revenue accounts for 7 percent of the compan…
The Business Portal Sweepstakes: Who Is The Winner?
Taking on from my post on Indian portals and Alexa ranking, Sanjay of Moneycontrol.com has left a comment. He says Moneycontrol.com (a finan…
NAA Mid Year: Web Will Be Key Revenue Driver
The contribution from online advertising is still fairly small for most newspaper chains — an industry average of about 5 percent — but p…
NAA Mid-Year Media Review: Webcast
Couldn’t make it to New York this week but the Newspaper Association of America’s Mid-Year Media Review is well underway with Belo speaking…
NYTCO: About.com Will Add To Earnings Ahead Of Schedule
About.com will be “additive” a year ahead of schedule, according to new 2Q06 guidance issued today by the New York Times Company. Translatio…
NAA: Newspaper Site “Power Users” Spend More Online
Eighty-two percent of newspaper site “power users” purchase products online compared to 55 percent of infrequent users, according to a new s…
Bennett, Coleman Acquires Karnataka Papers
The Economic Times: This is one of the major acquisition deals in the Indian newspaper industry. Bennett, Coleman & Company (The Times of In…
Industry Moves: Sandipan Deb New Editor Of The Financial Express
There is a change of gaurd at The Financial Express, the financial daily from The Indian Express Group. Sandipan Deb, who has been in charge…
ABP Wants To Straddle Across All Media Platforms
Indiantelevision.com has a story on Kolkata’s conservative media group Ananda Bazar Patrika, the publishers of The Telegraph. The group plan…
Bostonherald.com Drops Charge For Columnists
A little more than three yeara after the Boston Herald started charging to read columnists online — $4.95 a month, $24.95 a year — Boston…
Dainik Bhaskar Group Valued At $466 Million
Business Standard: Bhaskar Group, a regional media company in India, is valued at Rs 2100 crore ($467 million). It’s a leading regional medi…
Pioneer In Talks With Jagran For A Sell-out
Business Standard: It’s a sign of the growing maturity of Indian newspaper business. Indian newspaper moguls are not averse to mergers and a…
Newspaper Ad Sales: Parsing The Numbers
The newspaper industry has posted significant online advertising gains for eight straight quarters while the print side struggles to eke out…
Bodhtree Sells Pressmart ePaper Technology In World Newspaper Conference
Newspaper Techniques: Here is a despatch from the World Association of Newspapers 2006 conference in Moscow. Sanjiv Gupta, CEO of Bodhtree C…
Online Local News Networks As Potential Salvation
It’s a variation on weaving gold out of straw — roll up enough local sites into a national network and the money will come in. At least, th…
Online Newspaper Ad Sales Up 35 Percent In 1Q06
Spending on online newspaper advertising jumped to $613 million in 1Q06, up 34.9 percent over the same quarter last year, according to an NA…
Krishna Bharat Says No Immediate Plans to Monetize Google News
Here is a rare interview with Krishna Bharat, Principal Scientist at Google and the creator of Google News. Bharat is a reclusive man – for…
Industry Moves: Saurav Sen Quits Times Internet To Head ABP’s Digital Media Initiatives
Exchange4media.com: Saurav Sen, GM and Head of Telecom Content with Times Internet Ltd, is moving to rival media group Anand Bazar Patrika (…
Times Of India Group To Buy Karnataka Newspapers
Agencyfaqs.com: Media deals are very rare in India. So if there is one – even if it’s traditional media – we take note of it. Bennett, Colem…
Pod, Vod and God: Newspaper’s Next Hopes
An excellent if slightly loosely structured story on the state of the newspaper industry in U.S., the innovations and attempts going on onli…
AP and Topix In Local News Attribution Deal
Online news search and aggregation site Topix.net and AP’s digital arm are teaming up in an attempt to send more visitors to newspaper sites…
EPpy Awards: No Alarms And No Surprises
Inevitably US-centric: 32 awards and only two non-US winners. Both of those are from Spain, interestingly. Prisacom took best special featur…
Suburban Newspaper Group To Launch National Online Ad Network
The Suburban Newspapers of America, a non-profit trade asssociation for nearly 2,000 papers, is launching a national ad network for its memb…
Interview: Jack Matthews, CEO of Fairfax Digital, Australia
[by James Pearce] While in Australia last month, I interviewed Jack Matthews, globetrotter and newly-appointed CEO of Fairfax Digital. Fairf…
Trinity Mirror Acquires Email4Property For $8.2 Milion
UK newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror is continuing down the same path as rivals DMGT with the $8.2 million acquisition of the Email4Propert…
Daily Mail Group Buys Dating And A Classified Site For $86.4 Million
The Daily Mail & General Trust, the UK newspaper publisher, which just formed a new national digital media division, has bought out two onli…
UK’s Telegraph’s New Design; Pares Down Ad Units
This is becoming somewhat of a trend among online newspaper sites: less (but bigger units) advertising on homepage, cleaner design, larger h…
Newspaper Circ Slips But Online Traffic Up 8 Percent
Modest weekday circulation gains for a few papers including USA Today, NYT and Chicago Tribune during the six months ending in March but ove…
Business Standard Goes Pay For Premium Content
This is interesting. Business Standard, a leading Indian business newspaper, has gone pay for certain sections of the website. The subscript…
UK Newspaper Business: Doom And Gloom
Familiar threads of negativity running through MediaGuardian’s report from yesterday’s Dow Jones Business Editors’ Conference. Independent c…
Updated: Tribune Takeover Bait? CEO Says Could Face KR Fate
Or just wishful thinking? … BW’s inside Wall Street reports that 16 out of 19 analysts following the company “are down on it” but that Law…
MediaBay Launches HT Digital Audio News Globally
The Indian newspaper group HT Media and US-based digital media publishing firm MediaBay (Soundsgood.com) have joined hands to publish and di…
Raju Narisetti Wants Journos Who Can Do “Lighthouse” Reporting
Marketwatch.com: Raju Narisetti has quit as the editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe. He will be moving to India by end May to join as t…
WaPo Launches Local News Site, With Emphasis On Classifieds
The Washington Post Company’s is launching a new local news and classifieds site, called ReadExpress…it is the online component of the Pos…
Rahul Joshi New Editorial Boss Of The Economic Times; Rajrishi Singhal Moves To Consulting Role
India’s largest selling business newspaper has made some top level changes on the editorial side, ContentSutra learns. Rajrishi Singhal, the…
Living Digital Magazine Launches Interactive SMS Application
Press Release: Living Digital (LD), a digital lifestyle magazine from the CyberMedia Group, has launched an interactive SMS application. For…
Raju Narisetti Is Editor Of Hindustan Times’ New Business Paper
We had hinted this in a post early this week. Exchange4Media confirms it now. Raju Narisetti, a former Wall Street Journal editor, is going…
Raju Narisetti Leaves The Wall Street Journal To Launch Newspaper In India
The Wall Street Journal (sub. req): Raju Narisetti, Editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe, has quit. According to the report, Narisetti i…
YouHub Citizen Journalism Venture Made $5 Million
(via Jemima) YourHub.com, the citizen journalism site from the publishers of Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post, earned about $5 million in…
Platform Proactive, Not Agnostic
(reg. req.) A good rant from always reliable Simon Dumenco…”I swear to God, if I see one more sorrowful death-of-newspapers story I’m seri…
Telegraph Group Restructures Online Unit; Senior Hires
UK’s Telegraph Group has made some major changes in its online division, including hirings. Julian Samble joins as head of online operations…
AP-MSN Video JV Has 500-Plus Outlets
The AP Online Video Network joint venture with MSN Video has at least 500 outlets, not bad for a service that’s only been available since Ma…
Newspapers: If, But, When, How, Why
You’ll get all the answers in the world if you read these three stories (if I had time, I would summarize these long stories, but I have oth…
This Just In: Breaking News Online (Finally) Takes Precedence For Traditional Media
One of Cingular’s ads has a savvy mobile user outdueling a newspaper reader when it comes up-to-date news. The reality: a lot of that mobile…
Online News Business Still Not “Paying Its Way”
The State of the News Media annual report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism is out for 2006, a mix of content analysis, data fro…
Trinity Mirror Scraps Buyback To Hunt For Web M&A
UK’s largest newspaper group Trinity Mirror has signalled the possibility of more internet acquisitions this year after cancelling a $434 mi…
Clarification on AP Online Video Network
I should have been more careful in the way I wrote about APOVN yesterday. As Sue Cross, AP VP-online, pointed out this morning:
— The Hurri…
AP’s Online Video Network Debuts; Makes Big Splash With Exclusive Katrina Video
See clarification. Nine hours after AP’s Online Video Network (APOVN) launched, the network set off a firestorm by posting video of Presiden…
Newspapers Need 100 Online Readers For Each Print Reader Lost
That’s according to calculations from consultant Vin Crosbie, presenting at the World Association of Newspapers congress last week. Between…
Coverage From WAN Conference in Paris
(via Vin) World Association of Newspapers’ Advertising Conference is going on in Paris and they are blogging it on the official conference b…
Newspapers To Advertisers: We Exist
Yep, and we’ll spend $50 million to prove it to you. More than the $40 million those sucka’ magazine people can come up with.
So says (well,…
2006 Edgies (Online Newspapers) Awards: Winners
Newspaper Association of America’s new media conference, Connections, is starting in Orlando this week (as part of the bigger NAA Marketing…
International Newspaper Body To Search Engines: You Kleptomaniacs
This one is headed straight to the PR nightmare bin…it is not as if the newspaper industry has a lot of good PR overflowing, and now this.…
Newspaper Execs Shift From Risk Averse To Risky Business
Or, as David Lieberman puts it in a very good look at the changing nature of today’s newspaper industry, “media’s sleeping giant is waking u…
UK Site Says No To Newspaper Groups’ Overture
As you’ve been reading here, a lot of consolidation in the online classifieds market in UK has been going on, with big newspaper groups buyi…
Seattle Post Does Away With Dayparting On Website
This will get some heads scratching in the industry, and some people saying “stick-to-what-you-do-best-and-sell-against-that”. SeattlePI, th…
WashingtonPost.com Runs Into Blogging Roadblock; Shuts Down Comments
WashingtonPost.com’s decision to shut down comments on its blogs highlights the problems news outlets face as they embrace new methods of pu…
Craig Who? Free Classifieds Paying Off For Union-Tribune
Based on the first 90 days of its switch to free classifieds for individuals selling items priced at $5,000 and under, the San Diego Union-T…
Corrected link: Dawn Of A New Golden Age For Newspapers?
Or so suggests Toronto Star columnist David Olive as he shoves the Cassandras of gloom and doom aside … He argues that the combination of…
Topix.Net Debuts New Look, Feel; Takes Two-Way Approach
Topix.net has a new look — cleaner, brighter, a little Yahoo News-like — and new features aimed at encouraging interactivity. SiliconBeat…
USA Today To Merge Print, Online Newsrooms
Gannett flagship USA Today will start merging online and print editorial operations with the goal of creating one newsroom. The announcement…
Daily Mail Makes $83 Million Offer For Property Site
The pace of M&A in the jobs and property websites in UK has been ferocious in UK over the last 6-8 months, as mainstream newspaper and media…
@ Media Week: News Corp.’s Chernin: “Can’t Think Of More Exciting Time To Be In Media”
News Corp. COO Peter Chernin has a caveat, though: “For companies that are alert and nimble, Ican’t think of a more exicting time to be in t…
@ Media Week: Graham: WashingtonPost.com Accounts For 11 Percent Of Paper’s Ad Rev
WashingtonPost.com is contributing 11 percent of the paper’s ad revenues and total publishing online ad revenue, including Slate.com, is up…
Journal Register Buys Jobs Site JobsInTheUS
Newspaper company Journal Register has bought out JobsInTheUS, a technology company that owns several online job sites.
Journal Register did…
@ Media Week: Scripps Continues Transformation Into Interactive Media Company
Scripps will add four “hyper-niche” broadband channels in coming months. HGTV KitchenDesign debuts this month with about 200 videos from HGT…
@ Media Week: Interview: Ken Lowe, CEO, Scripps
If memory serves, the first time I interviewed Ken Lowe was an assignment from Multichannel News to write about the cable nets with the lar…
Virginia Newspaper Launches Standalone Video Site
This is kinda interesting, coming from a newspaper site: The Virginian-Pilot–the largest daily metropolitan newspaper in the state of Virgi…
IBD Has 50,000 Electronic Subs; 3,000 More For Investors.com
Buried in an otherwise not-not-much-new story about TimesSelect, this update on Investor’s Business Daily’s own online efforts. The paper ha…
Craig Newmark Promises Major Online Journalism Project Within Next Three Months
Updated: read below: Craigslist founder Craig Newmark told an audience at Oxford University this week that he’s planning to launch a major o…
Houston Chronicle Backs Off Of Registration
The Houston Chronicle’s Chron.com online redesign comes with a bonus for some readers — the site has cut back on registration requirements…
Online Ops Aren’t Included In LAT Newsroom Cuts; Emphasis On Hiring, Growth
LA Times Interactive GM Robertson Barrett says his operations aren’t part of the just-announced newsroom mandate to cut about 85 jobs. In fa…
Readers Up 11% at US Newspaper Sites: Study
Newspaper sites in U.S. are attracting users at a faster pace than the internet overall with visitor numbers up 11 per cent annually, accord…
API’s $2 Million Newspaper Thinktank
The American Press Institute has launched a $2 million year-long research project trying to find new business models for newspapers…The “N…
Tribune Taking MetroMix Brand National
Tribune is taking its “Metromix” brand of “edgy” entertainment sites national…it is a well-known Chicago site, but now its going “national…
Merrill Lynch Analyst Suggests Tribune Should Sell Assets; Keep Online
Influential Merrill Lynch analyst Lauren Rich Fine has come out with a 20-page report which says that Tribune should consider selling its ne…
AP To Launch Online Video Service With MSN, Thru Member Sites
The Associated Press is launching its previously-announced online video network: it is doing so in association with MSN. Member sites partic…
LATimes.com Launches Awards Site; Buys GoldenDerby.com
In an obvious attempt to go big against the trades as well as get the for-your-consideration advertisers interested, LA Times has launched a…
Online Offers Best Revenue Hope For Newspapers
And newspapers face fierce competition, yadayada — you know the drill. This AP story about a panel at the Associated Press Managing Editors…
Local Sites Must Find the Right Measurement Tool
The Online Publishers Association (OPA) has released a white paper making recommendations for local website audience measurement. It compare…
Free Online Classifieds Site LiveDeal Gets $4.85 Million Funding
LiveDeal.com, the Santa Clara-based free local online classifieds network, has secured $4.85 million in second funding. The round was led by…
New Times, Village Voice To Merge; Web Expansion Planned
The long-speculated merger of alternative weekly chains New Times Media and Village Voice Media– more accurately, the non-cash acquisition…
WashingtonPost.com Editor: No Plans To Charge
The question of charging for a “PostSelect” came up during an online chat with Jim Brady, editor of WashingtonPost.com since last November.…
Trinity Mirror Revamps Four Sites
In UK, Trinity Mirror has relaunched its four remaining national newspaper sites as part of an ongoing strategy to boost online ad revenue a…
Health of the Newspaper Industry
If you were sleeping at the wheel, this story would give you an aha moment: “The basic newspaper, when you take out the Internet and all the…
Industry Moves: LAT Appoints Joel Sappell AME/Exec. Ed, Interactive
No sooner did I say I wasn’t sure the LA Times “gets” it re meshing print and online then the paper announces the appointment of Joel Sappel…
NAA’s Big PR Push For Newspapers; Includes Web Readership
I don’t understand most of the hyperbole, but I’m sure you will…The Newspaper Association of America has come out with a new database whic…
LAT Slouches Towards Meshing Print, Online
A couple of weeks ago, the LA Times published an editorial musing about Yahoo’s plans in the media space and wondering what it might mean fo…
Reader Response: San Diego Daily Transcript Web Director Defines Eventually … And More
You may recall the post earlier this week about the San Diego Daily Transcript and how it eventually would go online only. What the story th…
DC’s Blade Launches Online Gay News Wire
BladeWire, described as “a continuously updated resource of news and headlines affecting the GLBT community,” is being offered by the Washin…
San Diego Biz Pub Plans Eventual Move To Online Only
The San Diego Daily Transcript, which traces its roots back to 1882, eventually will be replaced completely by counterpart SanDiegoSource.co…
AP’s asap Opens For Business
AP asap, the newspaper co-op’s ‘s latest answer to the 18-34 million-dollar question, launched today with four subscribers — theChattanoog…
Hurricane Katrina: Testing Online Media To The Nth, Part I
At its peak during initial coverage of Hurricane Katrina, NOLA.com served 30 million page views — close enough to Mardi Gras numbers not to…
More On AP’s asap; 100-plus Newspapers Have Signed Up
More than 100 newspapers have signed up AP’s new asap, the latest silver bullet aimed at the 18-34 set, according to the New York Times. AP’…
AP’s Bid For The 18-34 Set — “asap” — Launches Sept. 19
The Associated Press continues its online drive with the Sept. 19 debut of asap, described by the news co-op as “one of the most ambitious p…
Austin American-Statesman Launches Citizen Journalism Site
Call anything you’re doing these days as “Citizen Journalism”, and you’re with it. The Cox-owned Austin American-Statesman has launched a co…
Coming Monday: Interview With Hilary Schneider, Knight Ridder
The second interview in our Media Executive Interview Series: an interview with Hilary Schneider, senior VP at Knight Ridder and former CEO…
Craigslist: The Kryptonite Rolls On
SmartMoney.com has a good story on the effects of Craigslist on newspaper companies: It competes with newspapers essentially by not competin…
Knight Ridder Paper Launches Citizen Journalism Site
: The State in Columbia, S.C, a Knight Ridder newspaper, is launching TheColumbiaRecord.com, a stand-alone citizen journalism site.
The pape…
The Sun Releases Exclusive Movie Content For PSP Owners
Say what you want about The Sun (the leading tabloid in UK), it has always been on the cutting edge of online media…it was among the first…
Online Paper Cuts Print Readership, Profits — But Not Much
Rich Gordon points out a good white paper from a University of Chicago economist Matthew Gentzkow, who studies the competition between print…
Online Advertising on Local Newspaper Sites Double In UK
In UK, regional newspaper publishers’ efforts to expand their business online are paying off with new figures showing that online advertisin…
Perhaps It’s Time for Aggregated Registrations
Ideas like these have been mooted in the past, not juts from the media industry, but also from the tech industry (Passport, Liberty Allaince…
Publishers Say YourHub No Threat To ‘Burb Papers
YourHub.com, the citizen journalism site from the publishers of Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post, is not a threat to the suburban newspap…
Fake Registration Push Draws Shrugs, Watchfulness
An effort online from the anonymous folks behind the BugMeNot registration-runaround website to game the registration site like the online n…
Hot Real Estate Market Boosts Newspaper Online Classified Sector — For Now
A chunk of those nifty double-digit increases in online advertising being announced quarterly by newspaper companies comes from the nationwi…
Floating Ads Are Annoying But Effective (reg. req.)
Someday I’ll understand how annoying ads can be effective and I’ll be transformed into a megabucks consultant. Until then, Robert MacMillan’…
Online Newspaper Ad Spending Climbs
According to the Newspaper Association of America estimates, total newspaper ad revenues – both print and online – are projected to reach $1…
Scripps Plans With Shopzilla
Scripps, which bought out shopping comparison site Shozilla for $525 million, has some grand plans with it. The ultimate goal: Turn Shopzill…
Trinity Mirror Swoops For Net Jobs Firm
A mini-trend going on in the UK market, where newspaper companies are finally waking up to the potential of online classifieds and buying ou…
Online Newspapers’ Revenues Touch Billion Dollar Mark
Eight months into 2005, eMarketer comes out with estimates on 2004 online revenues for newspapers in U.S. The meta-research firm says revenu…
Media General Advergaming Buys
A good overview of why a media/newspaper company like Media General is making acquisitions in the advergaming space. It bought out Dallas-ba…
Trinity Mirror Buys Jobs Website
In UK, Trinity Mirror has bought Financial Jobs Online, owner of financial recruitment website Gaapweb.com, as the newspaper publisher conti…
Slate’s Purchase Price: About $17 Million
I made some basic calculations based on Washington Post’s two recent 10-Q filings, and the acquisition cost for Slate, which was acquired in…
Media Websites’ Efforts In Paid Search; Portal Alternatives
Newspaper sites increasingly are adapting their advertising services to compete with other portla services from the likes of Google and Yaho…
Detroit News, Free Press Change Owners
Would be interesting to see the effect on online operations of these newspapers involved..who would you say is more online savvy: Gannett or…
Topix.net’s Progress Report
A detailed interview with Topix.net founders CEO Rich Skrenta and Chris Tolles, VP of sales and marketing, on the progress since the investm…
Topix.net Got About $50 Million
If this math is correct, this will certainly send some valuations into a tizzy. Topix.net, the news aggregation play which got majority boug…
E-Paper and Newspapers
A good overview story on the various electronic paper developments, inlcuding E Ink, Treeless Systems, Philips, and others.
Atop the Content H-eAP
A story on AP’s eAP initiative: to digitaize its distribution process. Mainly a backend change…
AP Approves 2.2 Percent Fee Increase For Online Usage
We’ve been following this one closely: The Associated Press board has approved a 2.2% fee increase for its members for next year, coupling i…
AP To Launch Online Video Network
This is in concurrent to the announcement below, but merits separate mention: AP will be launching an ad-supported online video news service…
Media General Buys Gaming Company Blockdot
Media General, the Richmond, Va.-based media publishing company (owner of Tampa Tribune), has made a strange acquisition: it has bought out…
Trinity Mirror Buys New Housing Portal
In UK, newspaper chain Trinity Mirror has expanded into the online property services market, buying Smart Media Services, the owner of house…
WaPo Launches Dual Homepage Today; Ad-Driven RSS Feeds
As we reported earlier this week, WashingtonPost.com has launched its dual homepages today, one tailored to its local audience and one for t…
WashingtonPost.com To Launch Dual Homepages This Week
WashingtonPost.com will launch dual homepages this week: one will be for local Washington DC area residents, and another one for other natio…
Fairfax Buys Dating Site
Australian media/newspaper company Fairfax (which also has the biggest network of online news sites) has acquired local online dating servic…
Newspaper Joint Venture Buys NewsCars.com
Online auto-shopping site Cars.com, owned by six media companies, has acquired NewCars.com…Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Cars.com…
Mirror Group Plans New Sites
Compare this with the announcement just below…in UK, the Mirror Group Newspapers is planning to launch a range of Web sites and revamp its…
Evening Standard Axes Online News Staff
Associated New Media, which was already a laggard in embracing the Internet, has axed news staff on the London Evening Standard website to f…
Newspapers Snap Up Real Estate Website
Classified Ventures, a newspaper partnership that includes KRD, Gannett, The Washington Post Co., Belo Interactive and the Tribune Co., has…
Online News In Lawrence, Kan.: Lots of Attention But Still Subsidized (reg. req.)
Tne New York Times went all out Sunday with a double-jump look at the “newspaper of the future” — The Journal-World of Lawrence, Kan.(circ…
Newspapers: Dead Yet?
Back in 2001, there was a blog tracking whether Dick Cheney was dead yet, based on his bad health in those days. Was a hilariously funny blo…
Gannett's Mid Year Review: Online
Much lipservice from Gannett about its online growth at NAA’s mid-year review…Internet revenues for Gannett through May are up 45 percent.…
WaPo CEO: Interested in Online Acquisitions, But Pricey Deals
Don Graham, CEO of the Washington Post Co. told the NAA Mid-Year Media Review conference that he would consider additional online deals tha…
Newspapers See Higher Online Revenues
AT NAA’s Mid Year Review, newspaper congolms had strong growth in Q1 and Q2 online ad revenues. Online advertising, while still relatively s…
AP Takes On Its Future And The World
A detailed story on the future of AP and its embrace of digital media, much like its rival Reuters…The AP also has dared to ruffle some U.…
Scotsman.com Goes Premium
On the heels of TimesSelect, as of June 20 Scotsman.com will leave most of the site open but a chunk of “unique and distinctive” content goe…
Supreme Court Denies Media Ownership Review
B&C was first in my mail box with news that the U.S. Supreme Court will not review media ownership rules. More to come.Bloomberg: “The rejec…
Barron's Crafts Newspaper Obit, Sort Of
Barron’s’ Andrew Bary sifts through the numbers and determines that Wall Street is “starting to write an obituary for the newspaper industry…
PointRoll Rich Media Ad Firm Acquired by Gannett For $100 Million
Newspaper giant Gannett is buying rich media online ad firm PointRoll in a deal valued at more than $100 million, according to this story.…
Will Christain Science Monitor Go Online Only?
The troubled Christian Science Monitor newspaper may be going online only…for now nothing has been confirmed by the newspaper, but it does…
FT Reinvents Itself For A Multi-Channel World
FT online publishing director Nigel Pocklington told London conference attendees this week: “Newspapers have a high penetration of sales in…
Tasteless Video Pulls Heavy Traffic to SFGate.com
Encouraged by massive cross-channel media attention, thousands of visitors flocked to SFGate.com for a look at portions of a controversial v…
LATimes.com Strategy Going Forward
A nice overview of LATimes.com’s strategy going foward, in light of its recent move to open up its subscription ste CalendarLive and redesig…
Preparing For The Day When The Web Site Might Drive The Newsroom
While other newspapers start a blog or two of their own or start covering blogs, the News & Record in Greensboro, NC is working on a town sq…
Tribune Brings Free Classifieds to 12 Markets
Tribune last week expanded its Los Angeles-based free classifieds provider Recycler.com into six cities where it owns local TV stations. The…
Newsroom Vets Launch News Site in San Diego
A former columnist at the Union-Tribune has joined with a VC and a dot-com veteran to launch a new online newsroom for the city…the site V…
LAtimes’s Redesign Online
As we reported yesterday, LATimes.com has redesigned, and its Calendarlive section is back to being free to access…(the editor’s note is h…
ContentBiz2005: How to Frame the Conference?
Dorian Benkoil.
Rafat and I talked before this conference about how we might approach it, and came up with a legitimate question: In today’s…
LATimes.com to Redesign, Calendarlive Going Back To Free
LA Times’ two year experiment with a premium section is coming to an end: after much speculation, its Calendarlive site is going back to be…
More Reg Woes For NY Post
The NY Daily News reports that rival NY Post reversed efforts to collect “a mother lode of highly personal information, including name, age,…
Lost in the (NY) Post
Poor NY Post..it was having some major trouble launching its online registration efforts (which started today), and everyone who hates them…
AP or P2P: The Debate Continues
Often, stories that I think will bring a surge in comments in that particular forum don’t even net one reponse. This one is different. I thi…
Newspaper Circ Down 1.9 Percent
It may not sound like much in the grand scheme of things but this 1.9 percent decrease includes some even more significant numbers. Accordin…
Scripps Execs: AP Is Self-Distructing; Replace It With P2P Co-Op
To say E.W. Scripps execs Bob Benz, GM-print web operations for and Mike Phillips, editorial director-newspaper division, are unhappy with A…
AJC.com Meets Modest Goals For Paid Blogs
I played a very small part in the Atlanta newspapers’ earliest efforts to make money by delivering news via computer (the 1980s’ CompuServe…
Next: The Google Street Journal
(reg. req.) A controvesial thought, to say the least: “It’s only a matter of time before a Yahoo or a Google decides to buy an old media com…
Aussie Editor Says Online Cannibalization Is “Overstated”
A decade after Aussie newspapers went online, The Austrailan — through its website — takes a look at the effects. Nic Jones, managing dire…
“Newspaper Publishers Aren’t Being Smart”
Newspaper publishers need to step up to new opportunities that are emerging in the local search arena, rather than hiding their heads in the…
Total Overhaul for UK News Site
The Independent Online’s relaunch is a total overhaul aimed at unfolding the site for users. New navigation allows single-click access from…
News Sites Boost Paid Search Use
The online arms of The New York Times, Washington Post, National Public Radio and several other top media outlets are running search campaig…
Ifra Beyond the Printed Word 2004 Moblog
Well, the newspapers are catching up…at least in Europe. Ifra’s “Beyond the Printed Word” Conference, (which I attended last year in Amste…
Sun Online Says Guardian Story Wrong
This is the rebuttal of a story which caused some controversy last month…Sun Online editor Pete Picton has criticised the Observer and the…
Better Search at Tribune Sites
Search as a news tool: Tribune Interactive is making some real progress with recent upgrades on its various sites, writes Steve Yelvington.…
Open Season For News Sites
Mark Glaser round up some of the recent developments in online media industry: sites such as the BBC and News.com are linking more outside t…
Individualization of Content For Newspapers
Vin Crosbie’s speech at the Associated Press Managing Editors annual conference, earlier last week…
A quote: “A major difference between p…
Info As a Flow, Not Stock
(via Vin) A great speech by Command-Post.org founder Alan Nelson, to newspaper editoris: “Information in general, and news in particular, is…
‘News Journal’ Launches Twice-Daily Local Webcast
The newspaper website are catching the broadband bug (NYT, USA Today, WaPo and other big papers do it already)…now the News Journal, in Wi…
Why Web Publishers Fear a Little Sharing
Well, the story got Matt Haughey’s spelling wrong, for starters…and then it raises the bogey of bogus newspaper website registrations…
D…
UK’s Times Goes Back on Online Subscription
Times Online, the website of UK’s The Times newspaper, has gone back on its subscription policy for overseas visitors…The areas now freely…
Online Sites Are Cutting Into Papers’ Classified Ads
Yep, what a surprise..Craigslist and eBay are now cutting into newspaper classified advertising, according to a new report released today by…
Metro Newspaper Launches Music Service in UK
UK’s free tabloid Metro has launched an online music service called Metrotunes, aimed at what it calls “urbanites”.
The service has been de…
Are There News Publication Implications To Paid Search?
As news breaks and hottens up, so do the prices for ad keywords on search engines…some people are wondering that this, combined with the r…
USAToday.com Adds Broadband Video Section
In a tie-up with The Feedroom…the mini-site is up here…
CanWest Global Makes Digital Media Hires From US
Canadian media chain CanWest Global Communications is bringing in three big-name American media executives to run its newly rebranded CanWes…
Online Classifieds Shouldn’t Scare Newspapers
“Those publishers who take the initiative and adapt to the very different market dynamics and product factors that exist in the digital worl…
Arizona Republic Redesigns Site
The online home of The Arizona Republic, azcentral.com, launched a major site-wide redesign this week. It is the first design overhaul for a…
SpokesmanReview Newspaper Goes Paid
The Spokesman-Review’s website has gone subscription for some parts…the charge for the premium online service will be $7 per month…
Cutbacks at LA.com
(via LAObserved): The much-hyped LA.com is not working: Los Angeles Newspaper Group has laid off its top managers, including manager Lynda K…
AP’s Local Blogging Plans
Associated Press, one of the oldest and biggest news organizations in the country, is looking into using blogging on local community level..…
The State of Online Journalism
That was the event held yesterday by ONA…
Among other things: CNET News.com is currently working on restructuring its inner story pages be…
It’s the End of Classifieds as We Know Them
To combat the growing popularity of auction and classfieds Web sites, should newspapers offer free ads and open local auction warehouses? A…
Effects Of Sun Cutting Down Web Content
UK’s tabloid Sun is planning to cut down on its website, as it says that big cannibalization is happening with its print readers..
That was…
Associated Backs Loot Revamp With 1 Million GBP Marketing Push
In UK, online classified marketplace Loot, owned by Associated Newspapers, is spending
Why Bloggers Are Good For Profit
(reg. req.): Why aren’t more online news sites becoming more blogger/link friendly? “[Complimentary] content for bloggers and their visitors…
Morris Digital Works Acquires Media Services Assets of Cobalt Group
Morris Digital Works, a division of newspaper/media company Morris Communications, has acquired the media services assets of automotive reta…
Registration? For What?
John Dvorak hates everything in this world, so what’s the point…but I’ll agree with this point: “When you peruse the Web sites of newspape…
Globe Goes Premium
Canadian newspaper site Globeandmail.com, has launched a premium section for subscribers… If you want to read their columnists or editoria…
Job: LA Times Looking For Online GM
LAT’s online division is looking for a new GM…
And Apple’s looking for an iPod marketing manager…
Sun UK To Cut Back Web Due To Cannibalization Fears
(reg. req.) UK’s biggest tabloid (and one of the biggest websites in UK) The Sun has decided to scale back its online operations, as parent…
Sun To Launch Mobile Java Edition
In UK, the tabloid behemoth The Sun is planning to launch a downloadable mobile Java version of the newspaper, reports NMA.
The publisher b…
Newspapers Pursue E-Commerce
(sub. req.): Online newspapers are begining to embrace e-commerce through their sites, but their entrance onto the commerce stage is off to…
Alt-Weeklies Officially Launch One-Stop Site
I mentioned the soft-launch earlier last month…the site AltWeeklies.com has been launched, formally…the site that aggregates content fro…
The Unasked Question
The eternal Craigmania-induced question: Why can’t/haven’t/don’t newspapers create and offer their OWN self-published, community focused lis…
Political Advertising: All’s Fair in the ‘Wild West’ Aura of the Net
Critics worry about unregulated mudslinging. Web publishers would welcome a post-convention gold rush of soft money ads. Others take a wait-…
Where Web Traffic Is A Rocky Mountain High
Denver Post engaging lofty goals with redesigned site…
Electronic AP: Big LeAP Forward?
By year’s end, The Associated Press plans to roll out Electronic AP (eAP), a content management and distribution initiative that aims to pro…
Shrewd Dot-Com Investing
Newspaper executives who oversee digital-media investments are taking a more calculated approach this time…Their strategies more closely r…
Big Traffic, Not Big Media Responsible for Bugmenot Shutdown
Just to be clear…Clickz leeches BoingBoing’s work on BugMeNot and writes a story…
Boston Globe’s Website To Go Registration
This new job position at Boston.com mentions it…(much like parent company NYT’s online website)
Philly Inquirer Partners With NBC10
Some nice cross-media promos tied-in to this partnership…
PDF Editions: Still A Hot Button Issue
Using PDFs as a content presentation and delivery vehicle is still a hot button issue, and has cropped up in a few different threads online:…
Should Monster Be Bought By Bigger Net Plays?
(sub req.): Barron’s making a persuasive case for it…
Bugmenot’s Back
The army of volunteers at Mozilla forum helped sort it out for Bugmenot…the hosting guy got it mixed up…see here.
See my earlier post: “…
Bugmenot Gone?
(via Umair Haque) Seems like the bug in the side of newspaper and other news sites is gone, or at least down for some time. Bugmenot, the c…
Newspaper-Owned Web Venture Tries Local Sale Search
ShopLocal is a searchable directory of local specials and sale items similar to those found in newspaper circulars. It was developed by Cros…
The Secrets of Lawrence
Lawrence Journal-World’s secrets, revealed. Revenues — reportedly $900,000 last year for online sales. In-line ads and sponsorship made $17…
News Sites Fail at On-Site Search
You don’t have to look very far to see that on-site search on news sites is in a dismal state.
Why Trust Registration Data?
‘Cause why should I trust your view, Adam?
Related: Why trust Adam Penenberg?
Also read: “Registration Still Required”
The Personalized Cookie For News Sites
I would think a combination of what MSNBC.com Newsbot does, along with a more active clipping service like IHT.com, would do the trick….
Alt-Weekly Portal Launches
(via Media Drop) As pointed in a previous story on OJR, the alt-weeklies are beginning to wake up from their Net slumber: Association of Alt…
Trouble At Village Voice; Aims For Online Lifeline
(reg. req.): Alt-weekly Village Voice is going through a lot of restructuring and turmoil, as its business has been usurped by the likes of…
What, Me Register?
Another knee-jerk and populist reaction to online registration…more research is needed into a something like not, not flag-bearing populis…
News Sites, Where the Men Are
While the gender ratio of people who read print newspapers is about 1-to-1, 60 percent to 70 percent of the people who read the websites of…
Profits Up For Local Web
Local online advertising moved from high-growth status to “boom” in the first half of 2004, according to consulting firm Borrell. Daily news…
News Web Sites Court Campaign Ads
(reg. req.): Missed this one last week: a detailed story on online news sites trying to court political ad budgets during this election seas…
Steal this Login
An interview on NPR with Wired News reporter Rachel Metz, about BugMeNot, the small site which is at a center of controversy among online ne…
AP Looks Into Enhanced Online Search Tool
AP’s looking to get into the local search and content game… The goal is to offer a search engine with more participating news organization…
Open Arms for Open-Source News
A California newspaper is turning over the news to the people: If you think it’s news, it probably is to somebody, so write it up…
Napster Ties Up With News Corp For Newspapaper Music Promos
For some reason, innovation in this niche is happening in UK, even though the market is much smaller, and almost a year behind U.S…(Or may…
Many Newspaper Sites Still Cling to 24-Hour Publish Cycle
Oh well…Research at the University of Texas at Austin found that of 30 news sites monitored, only 12 updated their home pages frequently,…
Google-envy and the Quest for Local Search
Local newspapers might be in a better position to tap into the local search and classifieds space than we give them credit for. “Local onlin…
Newspaper Blogs and Ad Revenues
An interesting little tidbit from, who else, E-Media Tidbits…the Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Washington, is having some success…
Checklist for Building the Ideal News Web Site
Suggestions include the scroll-less home page, better ad management, more user-generated content.
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Login
And you thought the controversy had died? It is back again, at least on the discussion boards of the technorati…
The story revolves around…
New Plans For CS Monitor
Includes a subscription service for “heavy users of the Monitor website”..what does that mean?
Publishers Urged to Try Paid Search
Newspapers companies should reconsider paid search, and “jump on…the bandwagon”…
The next time a consulting firm tells me to jump on the…
Registration: The Industry’s Hot-Button Issue
Just when you thought everyone was becoming comfortable with registration for online news access, along comes a whirl of public opinion agai…
Alternative Papers Waking Up From Net Slumber
OJR has done a great story on how the alt-weeklies are now waking up from their Net slumber, so to speak, and trying to ride the second wave…
Quality News: Who Will Pay The Tab?
Can the mass media make money from digital publications that tap advertisers’ desire for targeted ads? And, if the ad revenue from digitaliz…
Mobile Offers A Renaissance For Newspapers
An interesting new report from the World Association of Newspapers’ “Future of the Newspaper” project, on how newspapers need to develop mob…
LA.com’s Insider Approach
Hoping to take advantage of the L.A. Times’ decision to restrict access to its city guide, LA.com’s small team is building a media brand fro…
Will Young People Enjoy Dirt?
Denver newspaper tries to reach out to the youth…
LAT’s CalenderLive Leading To Defections?
That’s what this story speculates: LA Times’ CalenderLive site went subscription last year, and maybe the LAT entertainment writers are not…
Telegraph Reconsiders Online Operations
The Telegraph Group in UK is to weigh up the future of its fashion/gossip site Handbag.com–a joint venture with Boots–following the Barcla…
Smaller Newspapers’ Life On The Web
The problems facing a small newspaper website…among them, newspapers’ Web efforts don’t appear to be helping their print circulations.
Newspapers Beware: Local Search Services Are Rolling Out
“Could local search be as much of a threat to newspapers — and in some advertising categories, local TV — as online classified services ha…
AP Turns To Convera As eAP Initiative Moves Forward
Really, it is…the news agency will use Convera’s RetrievalWare software to categorize, search, and distribute its multimedia news content.…
Website Analytics Still Hit or Miss
(via Cyberjournalist): The online version of the Tampa (Fla.) Tribune and WFLA-TV, called TBO.com, uses no less than six different methods -…
WaPo Online Wins Edward R. Murrow Award
Washingtonpost.com has become the first non-broadcast media organization to win a
prestigious Edward R. Murrow award from the Radio-Televisi…
Newspapers Bite; No Fun
(via Editor’s Weblog): “With television offering headlines — and Internet blogs offering inspired commentary — why do people want to get t…
User Registration Need Not Be Inevitable
Steve Outing has written a great article on trying to capture user data more carefully, ways around asking users to register and yet be able…
First Zulu Language News Site
The Zulu language has burst onto the Internet with the launch of Isolezwe.co.za – the world’s first Zulu news site, or so it claims. The web…
NewsStand Gets $7.2 Million in Funding From NYT Co, Others
NewsStand, the Austin, TX-based electronic editions software provider (enabling electronic/digital PDF editions of newspapers and magazines)…
Embedding the Internet in Newspaper Processes
The future of newspaper priting world: Ad systems are all web-enabled, tearsheets are being delivered electronically, and news-editorial sys…
2004 Mid-Year Newspaper Media Review Webcast
This Tuesday and Wednesday, you might want to check out the live webcasts of the Mid-Year Media Review…
A mid-year progress report from ne…
UK Newspapers To Get Into Digital Music Fray
Hell, why not? Guardian Unlimited will be the first to launch a download service around this year’s Glastonbury festival after striking a de…
‘Sun-Sentinel’ Launches SouthFlorida.com
The Sun-Sentinel Co. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has launched SouthFlorida.com, a new entertainment Web site focusing on the tri-county area.
Why Can’t A Newspaper Be More Like A Blog? Community and Karma
Barry Parr continues his commentary: “On the Web, focus matters. And newspapers should be focusing their site on local news….Be a good nei…
Online News Registration May Not Deliver
This is a rather unfair story, but play along. The basic argument is that there’s bad data, and then privacy issues…
The Philadelphia Inqu…
NewsStand Launches Browser-Based Reader
They’ve finally figured it out, haven’t they? That’s the least these digital version software companies can do…NewsStand has unveiled a br…
New Rules To Online Circulation Figures In UK
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for the UK and Ireland, has unveiled new rules to enable publishers to report digital editions on the…
More On- Why Can’t A Newspaper Be More Like A Blog
More commentary from Barry Parr on making newspaper more like blogs or blog-friendly:
— Archives/Links: Bloggers add value to old news with…
British Newspaper Archive To Be Launched Online
(via Resourceshelf) “British Newspapers 1800 – 1900” is a £2m project which will digitize more than one million pages of fully searchable t…
The Woes of the Christian Science Monitor
What should they do? They’ve been thinking of charging for online content…a story in the paper lays out the troubled state of the paper op…
Why Can’t A Newspaper Be More Like A Blog
Two sharp pieces by Barry Parr, on how online newspapers need to evolve:
— RSS: “Publishers don’t understand that the home page is no longe…
Roger Ebert’s Movie Reviews on Cells
Smart move by Chicago Sun Times…”Ebert Mobile Movie Reviews” will be available exclusively to U.S. Cellular subscribers.
Ebert’s Mobile…
Seybold Bulletin Goes Open
Seybold Bulletin, the companion weekly electronic newsletter on publishing technology from the eponymous Seybold Report, has been redesigned…
Can the Tribe Make It Work?
An interview with Mark Pincus, the founder of Tribe.net, a social software startup, backed by, among others, Knight-Ridder. Again, a simple…
‘Nerd Values’ Help Propel Tiny Craigslist Into Classifieds Threat
A profile of Craigslist and an account of how much has it eaten into newspapers’ traditional classifieds business, and whether newspapers ca…
The Compact Revolution
Reports from the World Editors Forum, being held in Istanbul, Turkey…these reports focus on how tabloid-sized newspapers are the wave of t…
Integrating Newspapers With Mobile Video
While we here in US are still stuck with trying integrate SMS with news services, Ico, a Korean mobile content provider is integrating newsp…
Newspapers: Opportunities and Profit From Digital Media
A report from a panel at the World Newspaper Congress, going on in Istanbul, Turkey…
According to a panelist, mobile operators still need…
World Newspapers: Advertising Rebounds, Circulation Down Slightly
A comprehensive roundup of the state of newspapers worldwide, by the World Association of Newspapers. On the online side, the growth of the…
Was I Having a Bad Day?
I stirred a small hornet’s nest last week when I mentioned that maybe online newspapers are shying away from innovation on busienss models,…
ANM Appoints Ad Agency To Promote Newspaper Websites
The oh-so-late entrant in the online newspaper market in UK, Associated New Media, the digital publishing division of Associated Newspapers,…
Text Messaging May Be Way to Reach Young Readers
For newspapers, that is…Boston Phoenix has rolled out an SMS program with two lures sure to snag the under-30 set: chat, and the chance fo…
Denver Post Gets Into Editorial Dayparting
Which is good…online users want different types of content at different times of the day, the logic goes…
Report Alert: What Local Web Sites Earn
60% discount for paidContent.org readers: A report by Borrell Associates…Unique results and rich analysis based on revenue reports from mo…
Honey, They Shrunk the Newspaper, Part 2
Jack Shafer digs deeper into the electronic/digital versions of newspapers: last time he looked at New York Times, the Washington Post, and…
Bush Camp Unveils Ads on Newspaper Web Sites
The Bush campaign for re-election has launched an advertising venture on the Internet, including several newspaper Web sites. The ad, which…
Tribune Co. Web Sites Hit by Technical Glitch
Chicagotribune.com and Newsday.com have pared down to text versions…
AP Chief Touts Customized News
The AP wants to help its members reach consumers who are increasingly demanding immediate news on their personal electronic devices, such as…
Tribune’s Interactive Revenues
Interactive revenues for Tribune, in Q1 2004, were $29 million, up 38 percent, due to strength in classified and banner/sponsorship adverti…
The Newspaper of Tommorow
A story on the electronic paper technologies being developed…”Those looking beyond the initial launch of electronic newspapers advise indu…
San Jose Mercury News Begins Registration
Knight Ridder’s San Jose Mercury News will begin requiring registration of its online visitors beginning April 14…
More details here….
2004 EPpy Award Finalists Announced
The finalists for the 2004 EPpy Awards, which honor the best new media work by media/newspaper companies, were announced today by Editor & P…
UK’s ANM Eyes Newspaper Mobile Services
UK’s newspaper group Associated Newspapers is ramping up the use of mobile interactivity across its titles, considering such next generation…
Lack of Unions Makes Florida the Convergence State
But it’s not all sunshine for the ongoing experiments in combining print, broadcast and online. The dark side is revealed during the annual…
Tech Takes On News Plagiarism
(sub. req.): Can technology stop plagiarized articles before they hit the newsstand? Despite some recent high-profile incidents and new soft…
Online Daily to Challenge S.F. Chronicle
(reg. req.): Beyondchron.org, an alternative online daily launching in San Francisco, promising to tweak the city’s establishment newspaper…
John Evans, Online Publishing Pioneer (1938-2004) R.I.P.
Vin Crosbie points out to the obit of John Evans, publisher of Village Voice in the 90s, who died nine days ago…
“As far as I know, he was…
Topix.net Finds Niche With Local News
Whatever it is, Topix.net, the news search engine launched recently, is getting a lot of press…
Topix is entering an area that’s long been…
Newspapers Still Don’t Get It on Classifieds
David Carlson on judging the EPpy Awards: “I am shocked at how little innovation is taking place in the newspaper classifieds arena. Many of…
Swiss Company Launches MMS News Service
(the link is a Google translation of the German page from the company’s website) BEX Media, a mobile content provider in Switzerland, has la…
Ten Years in New Media: Looking Back, Looking Forward
A wish list for new media sector, from Steve Yelvington, VP of content and strategy at Morris Digital Works, the online division of newspap…
Stop the Presses! Roll Out the E-papers
(sub. req.): A detailed story on the developments in the e-paper sector, and the future for it… Enough said: see below..
Local Internet Revenues For Media Companies
Borrell Associates is releasing a report that examines local Internet revenue and makes projections for 2004 in 210 U.S. markets, from New Y…
Registration coming to Ohio.com
“Beginning Wednesday, we will ask you to register online to read articles from our newspaper partner, the Akron Beacon Journal.”
Star-Telegram To Require Registration
The Star-Telegram’s Web site, Star-Telegram.com, on Wednesday will go behind a registration wall…
Knight Ridder, which owns the Star-Teleg…
You Gotta Hold It
Really?
Why Topix Is Different: Toward A Sustainable Model For Net Media Companies
So writes John Battelle today, in an interesting report on Topix.net, the new news search engine…Battelle hopes that a smaller company foc…
Topix.net Increases Number of Sources Crawled
Gary Price has all the details, as usual…Topix.net, the news search engine launched recently, is now crawling 6,000 sources. An interestin…
San Antonio Express-News Requires Registration
Beginning Monday, MySanAntonio.com will begin requiring users to register to access parts of the Web site of the San Antonio Express-News an…
InfoSpace to Buy Switchboard for $160 Million
InfoSpace is buying rival Switchboard for $160 million, boosting its business in the growing market for local search, and again, adding to t…
Olive Software Gets $6 Million Funding
Olive Software, the electronic publishing (digital editions) technology/software company based in Denver, CO, has received $6 million in fun…
LA Times Crossword On Mobiles
It’s slow, but newspapers are getting into the wireless game (pun intended!)…
Related: NYTimes.com To Launch Crossword, Word Game on Mobil…
Newspaper Web Readers Younger, More Educated
A new study by NAA shows no surprises: online newspapers readers are younger…”Power Users 2004: Newspapers’ Online Audience in a Broadband…
CanWest To Launch A Multimedia Digital Newspaper
Canadian media/newspaper company CanWest, which has made noises recently about convergence and the importance of it for newspaper industry,…
Trends in Online Newspapers
A great overview on what’s happening in the online newspaper market in U.S.: online registration, targeted advertising, targeted content, pr…
Tony Ridder on Online Newspapers
“For me, a decade of experience with Knight Ridder Digital engenders real excitement about the increasingly important role of interactive me…
Newspapers Need to Know Their Audience Online
Kinda obvious, but always worth a reminder…a report from the recent NAA’s Connections 2004 digital media conference.
Profile of Boston.com
A profile of Boston Globe’s online efforts in Boston.com..its efforts in online video, an open-source CMS system, generating user feedback e…
From Web to Print
In a smart move, the online newspaper TV2 Nettavisen in Norway published 20,000 copies of a print version of the website on Friday…downloa…
Users Rebel Against Data Gathering
(sub. req.): A disturbing yet obvious trend…More and more Web publishers are requesting personal details in an effort to serve up targeted…
‘Classic’ L.A. Comes to the Net
MediaNews Group and its California Newspaper Partnership, along with Gannett and Stephens Media, is set today to unveil LA.com, run by presi…
American News Web Sites May Offer Lessons For Japanese Papers
Asahi Shimbun researcher Shingo Ueji believes his company can profit from learning how U.S. newspapers adapt to the Web. He says Japan’s pap…
Free Swiss Daily Shuts Down Digital Edition
The free Swiss daily 20 Minuten has shut down its digital edition. The reason? The Swiss news agency Schweizer Depenschenagentur (SDA) usual…
Newspapers Hold 7 Spots on Top 20 News Site List
Seven of the top 20 news websites or groups in the U.S. during February were affiliated with newspapers, according to audience statistics fr…
Weak Online Economics Threaten Quality of All Journalism
Vin Crosbie breaks down the recent Pew study, “The State of News Media” and focuses on the online part of it. The report concludes that Inte…
Tribune TV Listings in TiVo
An alternative way of looking at newspaper syndication…
Shoptalk: Print Will Survive
Yep, this just in: print will survive…
Knight Ridder Won’t Charge for Web Site Access
Not necessarily in the plans right now…
The Future of News and Newspapers
An excellent series of stories by OJR (mainly Vin Crosbie) on the future of news and newspapers, online. Crosbie outlines the probems and so…
Knight Ridder Web Sites to Charge?
That’s what Vin Crosbie is hearing, from KRD execs…once Knight Ridder Digital has finished implementing consumer registration at their Web…
New Head For Tribune Interactive
Tribune has got the writing on the wall: classifieds and online have merged, irreparably, and so it has combined both those units, and has n…
UK’s Times Online Unveils First Ad Campaign
The Times Online in UK is to launch its first brand marketing campaign online featuring the strapline ‘Where it’s @ Times Online’.
The campa…
MediaNews, Stephens Launch LA.com
MediaNews Group’s California Newspapers Partnership, which includes Gannett and Stephens Media Group, is taking a direct stab at online city…
A Register of Newspaper Readers
A Wired News story on how a lot of newspapers have started asking for registrations fro users online….”While most newspaper websites haven…
Newspaper Sites’ Dayparted Content Lures Readers Throughout the Day
Another one of those lame MediaPost stories which takes research as gospel…
Timesofindia.com is No 5 in US
I have to say, there’s something really fishy about this: Hitwise has released a list of top 10 most-visited print news and media sites..som…
Knoxville News Sentinel To Require Registration
Knoxville News Sentinel newspaper’s website KnoxNews.com has started asking readers to register before accesng site’s content…and hey, it’…
The Scotsman to Require Registration
The Scotsman’s website has become the latest online newspaper website to ask for registration, in an attempt to get more in-depth data for a…
Google and Newspapers
Co-founder Sergey Brin on the evolution of search and his company’s partnerships with publishers.
News Sites Seek Readers Via Search Ads
Some news organizations have started advertising on search engines, luring readers on stories ranging from Michael Jackson’s trial to Comcas…
USAToday.com Signs Content Deal With United Online
USAToday.com has become the exclusive provider of news and headlines for United Online’s NetZero, Juno and BlueLight Internet services, incl…
WPNI Chief Eyes Growth Opportunities
An interview with Caroline Little, CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, in wake of WaPo’s decision to ask for more regi…
Green Bay News-Chronicle Asks For Voluntary Subscriptions
The Green Bay News-Chronicle, a small newspaper in Wisconsin, is asking for voluntary subscriptions for its website..consider it a more prof…
Christian Science Monitor May Start Charging for Online Version
Christian Science Monitor, beset by problems at its parent Church, is going in for a restucturing, which may also mean that it may start cha…
SunSpot, No More — It’s BaltimoreSun.com
Just as well…though sandiegounion-tribune.com would not be a good name to type in everyday…
YellowBrix and FluentMedia Announce Merger
Content licensing rivals YellowBrix and Fluent Media (part of Tribune Media) have announced a merger. The newly merged organization will ope…
WaPo Online To Require User Registration
WashingtonPost.com, after resisting the “registration-gate” for its website for years, has given in..it will now require all readers to regi…
Crosswords Killer On UK’s Telegraph Site
Crosswords pay, in more ways than one, online: Crosswords dating back to 1925 will be published every Saturday for the next 18 months on tel…
Wireless News: Idle Mode For Now
Well, for newspapers, that is…most smaller newspapers have not seen enough returns or revenues form their wireless/mobile efforts..
But th…
Daily Mail UK To Launch Premium Website
The Daily Mail UK is about to revamp its website with rolling news and paid-for content. Sometime this quarter the newspaper site owned by A…
WaPo’s Online Revenues Increase 34 Percent
Washington Post Online’s revenues for Q4, 2003 increased 34 percent to $14.2 million, from $10.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2002. Loc…
What’s in a Name? Nothing, If Its eAP
Call me when you’re done snoozing through this…I am pretty sick of the eAP thing…isn’t it just IT infrastructure upgrade, which should h…
Newspapers: The Connecting People Business
(via E-Media Tidbits): Norbert Specker has written a provocative article on why newspaper have failed in the most basic of human needs: conn…
NAA Connections: Ultra-local Content and Services
NAA Electronic Media Director Melinda Gipson is blogging the NAA Connections 2004 conference from San Diego..this is a good piece, touching…
NAA Digital Edge Winners Announced
The Newspaper Association of America presented its Digital Edge Awards to the best online newspaper projects on Monday at the Connections 20…
Will Newspapers Sites Start Seling Software?
Chicago Sun-Times has, and Digital River hopes so would other publishers….kinda weird..
NewspaperDirect Launches Library Service
NewspaperDirect, a digital delivery service for daily online editions of newspapers, has luanched its library service.
Libraries will have t…
USA Today Digital Edition To Be Offered Free With Wayport Wi-Fi
Wayport will offer USA TODAY in digital format for free for three consecutive days to travelers who connect at Wayport-enabled Wi-Fi hotspot…
WaPo Online Names New CEO
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the online arm of Washington Post Company, has named a new CEO: Caroline Little will be the new CEO and…
UK Newspapers’ Digital Editions: Review
Helpful review by The Register…Guardian, FT, Times and Telegraph versions reviewed…
Tribune-Owned BlackVoices.com Faces Shutdown
BlackVoices.com, an 8-year-old Web site owned by Tribune, is slated to be closed or sold in coming weeks. The site, which has failed to turn…
Web Newsrooms Needn’t Be Loss Leaders
Separation of church and state is a basic tenet of journalism, but that doesn’t mean online newsrooms have to be loss leaders, suggests Pete…
News Web Sites: A Future Waiting to Happen
Dave Morgan of Tacoda Systems: “One aspect of that discipline is to stop pigeonholing readers as either offline subscribers, newsstand buyer…
NewspaperDirect To Launch Online Version
(via J D Lasica): NewspaperDirect, the print-on-demand newspaper service, is launching on online version of its service, much like say Newss…
Why WaPo Can’t…
Some more WaPo bashing: not sure why Don Graham even gave the statement…the paper can’t add the online circulation even if it wants to, fo…
WaPo Not Combining Print and Online Circ
Regular readers of this site know I am not exactly a fan of WaPo online…most of it has to do with my avowed aversion to beltway politics (…
Tying Referrals to Content
This is how Knight Ridder plans to make money from its recent invetment in social software company Tribe.net: it is exploring a business mod…
Knight Ridder’s Web Focus: Local, Local, Local
Interview with Hilary Schneider, CEO of Knight Ridder Digital: “The message to publishers this year is that Knight Ridder as a company has a…
Publishers Bet on Friendster-Like Service
Publishers Knight Ridder and The Washington Post Co. are banking on social networking to be the future of online classifieds, having investe…
Aftonbladet Introduces More Premium Services
Aftonbladet, Sweden’s biggest newspaper site, has introduced an array of new premium services called “Aftonbladet Plus.” The Plus-package f…
WaPo Redesigns Website
Whatever…
Trib’s Jack Fuller — Time to Pay the Piper
(by Staci Kramer, guest blogging the ONA conference from Evanston, Ill): No surprises but a smooth look at online economic reality from Tri…
Scripps Plans Web Site Registration
The newspapers of E.W. Scripps chain will soon roll out registration at its Web sites…the first paper to launch will be the Ventura County…
The Albuquerque Journal as a Bad Paid Content Model
Vin Crosbie sinks his fangs into poor Donn Friedman of Albuquerque Journal…Vin is like Michael Wolff of online newspapers….
He warns aga…
From Free to Fee in 10 Easy Steps
ABQjournal’s Donn Friedman lays it all out for us..and please don’t miss the tenth step! A must read..
Denver Papers Sell Video Ads
The Denver Newspaper Agency recently launched streaming video advertisements on the Web sites for the two papers in the city’s joint operati…
Beyond the Printed Word — Nordics Lead The Way
(Ed: Vittorio Zambardino, the head of new media strategy at Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, one of the biggest newspaper chains in Italy, is g…
Details on CanWest’s Tiered Approach
Mark Glaser gives us details of Canwest’s recent announcement to offer the most content online to print newspaper subscribers, with plans fo…
Beyond the Printed Word – What is Beyond, Really?
(Ed: Vittorio Zambardino, the head of new media strategy at Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, one of the biggest newspaper chains in Italy, is g…
CanWest Outlines New Online Strategy
CanWest, which owns Canada’s biggest newspaper chain and the canada.com website, has provided more details of its previously-announced plan…
Online Outlets Link Papers, Profits
William Dean Singleton, CEO of MediaNews Group: “Bad content doesn’t get better just because it is on the screen,” he said. “It is time to a…
Building a Better Print Newspaper
Steve Outing does some big-picture thinking of what newspapers of the future should be doing…must-read for musty-heads…
AP Unveils Details of ‘EAP’ Initiative
Please, be respectful…hide that yawn, will ya?
Boston.com’s Flexible Redesign
“Sexy Nugget”? Seriously, what were you guys on…
KansasCity.com Launches User Registration
This is the first test-case for Knight Ridder chain… it plans to introduce a similar registration model at Charlotte.com at the end of nex…
Publishers – The Printed Kind – Rethink Their Role Online
“[A Gartner survey] found that many newspaper publishers don’t have a registration system that would be critical for developing the targeted…
SFGate.com’s Vlae Kershner
“We’re against the subscriber-only model. Our goal is to attract a large audience that advertisers want to reach. Newspapers need to charge…
CanWest Will Launch Premium Versions in November
(via Online-News list) CanWest Global Communications, the Canadian national newspaper chain, will close off its newspapers sites in November…
Newsday Launches Premium Membership
Newsday becomes the second major newspaper in the Tribune chain to launch premium services…here’s the message Raymond Jansen, Newsday’s pu…
Hesston Record Suspends Print Weekly; Launches Sub-Only Site
The Hesston Record, a small 70-year old weekly, has developed an online edition of the paper that will be available on a paid subscription-o…
‘Ariz. Republic’ Requires Web Registration
The Arizona Republic’s azcentral.com rolled out registration Tuesday, requiring users to provide their ZIP code, gender, and birth year befo…
Sunday Times’ CD Shows Promise
The Sunday Times in UK has launched its monthly CD-ROM, “The Month”, as part of its Culture supplement. Does it add to the paper – or is it…
Newspapers Want to Charge for Content, but Will Readers Pay?
Peter Krasilovsky, a senior partner at Borrell Associates, says newspaper sites should shy away from tollgates and charge only for exclusive…
The Sunday Times Integrates Print And Online Into CD-ROM
The Sunday Times in UK is launching a new multi-million pound entertainment section, integrating online and print content in a CD-ROM that w…
L.A. Times Hoping Time Is Right in Move to Monetize Niche Content
Mark Glaser analyzes: Things could get very entertaining after Tribune Co.’s largest newspaper walls off LA Times’ Calendarlive.com.
So why…
Growing Online Subscriptions In The Desert
Albuquerque Journal doesn’t look back two years after charging online…”ABQjournal.com has had 3,782 customers pay for access to the site i…
The Irish Times’ Story of the Transition
Again, a detailed look at Irish Times’ Ireland.com making the transition to a subscription site…The Irish Times was the first newspaper in…
The Jerusalem Post Looks For A Middle Road
An in-depth look at Jerusalem Post’s JPost.com transition to a subscription site, straight from the horse’s mouth. Despite being able to tur…
Newspaper Web Sites Struggle to Attract Younger Readers
Wow…news. Next… (But seriously, read it…lame headline notwithstanding)
Tribune Media Services Launches Subscription Newsletter
Tribune is serving up the heat on premium content (after last week’s announcement that LAT’s CalenderLive site will go subscription from Aug…
Pondering Paid Entertainment Guides
Rich Gordon analyzes the online paid entertainment guides, in wake of LATimes.com’s CalendarLive announcing that it will turn into a premium…
LAT’s CalendarLive Goes Paid
As expected, The Tribune Company has started rolling out premium services for its newspapers: first up, its biggest property Los Angeles Tim…
WaPo’s Future Online
A puff-piece on Washington Post’s online efforts…
Malaysian News Site Launches SMS Micropayments For its Online Content
(via XIAM): Malaysian news site Malaysiakini has launched an innovative payment scheme (though it is not the first one…few other news site…
Advance Papers Require Web Registration
Advance Publications has become the latest newspaper chain to implement user registration on its websites. Users at Cleveland.com, nola.com,…
Newspaper Websites Cannibalizing Print Side?
Seems so, according to a new survey by Belden Associates’ Spring 2003 survey of newspaper website users. Although Belden’s earlier quarterly…
The Next Great American Newspaper Will Be Online…
(via Romenesko): But not in the form you think…David Gelernter, professor of Computer Science at Yale and one of the most visionary thinke…
Searching for Online Gold
“Registration is the drumbeat of 2003, rather than firewalls,” he says. Both Benz and Yelvington dismiss the subscription tactic. Morris exp…
Est. Value of Premium Content Types
An interesting slide from Peter Krasilovsky, VP and senior partner at Borrell Associates, who gave a presentation earlier this week at UC Be…
Bill Gates Touts Digital Newspapers
“At the annual convention of the Newspaper Association of America, Gates said newspapers will deliver information and services like video me…
Independent Launches Pay Service
The Independent, the “independent” newspaper in UK, is launching a subscription/micropayments service, dubbed Independent Portfolio, which w…
Hamilton Spectator Goes Subscription
The 157-year old Canadian regional newspaper Hamilton Spectator is turning its website into a premium site, starting April 22. “Spectator [p…
Nando Time to Close
Nando Times, one of the pioneering news websites, will cease to exist within about 90 days, said Christian A. Hendricks, VP of Interactive M…
E-Newspapers With Built-in Video Coming
(via MarketingFix): Canadian media company CanWest Global Communications plans to roll out electronic versions of its newspapers with embedd…
Why Register
The Sun Herald has started asking users top register before accessing the content. The letter outlines why the move was necessary, though it…
Daily Telegraph to Launch a Digital Edition
The Daily Telegraph will launch a digital (PDF) version of its newspaper, in the next couple of months. Of course, newspapers in US have bee…
Can Online Publishing Attract the
Can Online Publishing Attract the E-Generation?: “Web sites and newspapers are designed to be read in different ways, in different situation…
Swiss Paper Allows Content Payment
Swiss Paper Allows Content Payment Through Mobiles: Swiss newspaper Le Temps is to allow its online readers to pay for archived articles usi…
Boston Herald To Launch a
Boston Herald To Launch a Subscription Scheme for Its Popular Columnists: This has been bit of a holy grail for big newspapers: the ability…
Want The News Now? Then
Want The News Now? Then Pay Up: A newspaper in Singapore has done what pundits here in US have only been debating for months and perhaps yea…
USAToday.com Tests Registration: USAToday.com on
USAToday.com Tests Registration: USAToday.com on Thursday began requiring users to answer three demographic questions to access some stories…
An Electronic Newspaper for On the Go
An interview with Roger Fidler, Director of the Institute for CyberInformation at Kent State University, and an electronic content distribut…
Online Newspapers Show Little Interest
Online Newspapers Show Little Interest in Innovative Payment Systems (Europe): A detailed story (and a report) the the European content paym…
Tribune May Start Charging Soon
“Later this year, the Tribune Company may become the first major chain to dramatically expand its pay-for-content services.
Gannett’s Online Revenues Increase 27
Gannett’s Online Revenues Increase 27 Percent: Gannett, the publisher of USAToday.com, among 100 other newspaper websites, has generated app…
South African Newspaper Site Rethinks
South African Newspaper Site Rethinks its Paid Content Strategy: “M&G Online [the online version of the South African paper Mail&Guardian]…
Web Profits Are Talk of
Web Profits Are Talk of NAA Meeting: “[O]nline news might develop into a model similar to cable television, where users pay for premium cont…
What Keeps Newspaper.com Execs Awake
What Keeps Newspaper.com Execs Awake at Night?: Answers: paid content, of course, among others! A short report from Newspaper Association of…
Newspaper Digital Units in the
Newspaper Digital Units in the Black: A roundup on the revenues for online units of major newspaper chains.
Newspapers and New Media: Dan
Newspapers and New Media: Dan Gillmor reports from the Newspaper Association of America’s Connections conference in Orlando, and is a bit di…
Ukranian Immigrant Newspaper Goes Subscription:
Ukranian Immigrant Newspaper Goes Subscription: Kyiv Post, an English-language weekly aimed mainly at the immigrant Ukranian population in E…
More Publishers Try All-Paid Web
More Publishers Try All-Paid Web Model: While no U.S. newspaper is yet making a fortune by charging for access to its website, more publishe…
Canadian Newspaper The Record Goes
Canadian Newspaper The Record Goes Subscription, With a Twist: Candian newspaper The Record, out of Kitchener, Ontario, is going subscriptio…
Washington Post’s Everett Herald Launches
Washington Post’s Everett Herald Launches Subscription Archives: The Everett [Wash.] Herald has deployed the Clickshare’s transaction platfo…
Newspaper Outsiders Offer Tips for Websites
The story offers advice to thwe newspaper industry, from newspaper outsiders like CBS MarketWatch, AOL, Internet Broadcasting Systems, and,…
Web Publishers Describe the Year’s
Web Publishers Describe the Year’s Top Achievements: A good round-up of acheivements of (mainly) newspaper web publishers, including The Adv…
AOL News Director’s Tips For
AOL News Director’s Tips For Newspapers: America Online’s news operations head Gary Kebbel, a former newspaper man, speaks with E&P Online a…
Buy the Print Copy to
Buy the Print Copy to Read the Online Newspaper: The Spanish newspaper on economics, Expansión Directo has a unique code number on its prin…
Paid Subscription Hasn’t Decreased Visits
Paid Subscription Hasn’t Decreased Visits to ElPais.es: One week after the debut of its charging venture, Spanish newspaper ElPais.es keeps…
Spanish Paper El Pais Puts
Spanish Paper El Pais Puts Entire Content Behind Subscription Wall: This is perhaps the first and the biggest general-interest paper in Euro…
Jerusalem Post’s Online Subscription Efforts:
Jerusalem Post’s Online Subscription Efforts: JPost.com, the online edition of Jerusalem Post, has been an innovator in reaching global audi…
Smaller U.S. Newspapers May be
Smaller U.S. Newspapers May be Late in the Online Game, But Are Keen to Experiment: Small U.S. dailies and community weeklies have embraced…
Spanish newspaper Gets 1000 Subscribers
Spanish newspaper Gets 1000 Subscribers in 20 Days: The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has gained 1,000 people to pay for some of its online con…
LATimes.com Launches Ticker Subscription Service
Following CNN.com’s and ABCNews.com’s lead, LATimes.com has launched a personalized subscription news ticker service called “NewsDirect”. Ne…
Akron Beacon Journal Launches Digital
Akron Beacon Journal Launches Digital Edition: The Akron Beacon Journal has launched a digital edition of its newspaper, using Adobe Acrobat…
San Francisco Chronicle Introduces Customized
San Francisco Chronicle Introduces Customized Subscription Audio Edition: In keeping with a growing trend, San Francisco Chronicle will laun…
British Wine Site to Charge
British Wine Site to Charge for Advice: Superplonk.com, the website set up by The Guardian’s wine expert, Malcolm Gluck, is to launch a subs…
Israeli Business Newspaper Launches Ad-Free,
Israeli Business Newspaper Launches Ad-Free, Subscription Version: Israeli business newspaper Globes has launched an ad-free, subscription v…
Le Monde’s Unsolicited Subscription Offer:
Le Monde’s Unsolicited Subscription Offer: Olivier Travers writes about the unsolicited subscription offer he got from Le Monde, France’s bi…
Irish Times’ Website has
Irish Times’ Website has 6,000 Subscribers: Ireland.com, the online division of the Irish Times newspaper, has reportedly signed up 6,000 f…
College Newspapers to Push Subscriptions?:
College Newspapers to Push Subscriptions?: In a story in NYT about college newspapers online, College Publisher, which provides publishing t…
WashingtonPost.com Doesn’t Plan to Charge
WashingtonPost.com Doesn’t Plan to Charge for Content: IWantMedia.com features an interview with Christopher Schroeder, CEO and publisher of…
Copley News Service Launches Syndicated
Copley News Service Launches Syndicated Download Site: Copley News Service is launching a new download website, which will offer about 80 co…
Globalvision News Network’s Ambitious Attempt
Globalvision News Network’s Ambitious Attempt to Charge for International News: Globalvision News Network, an independent global news-and-in…
Swiss Newspaper to Charge for
Swiss Newspaper to Charge for Online Content–Pay-Per-Day?: Swiss media group Tamedia will introduce charges for those who wish to read thei…
Florida Newspapers Launch Subscription Electronic
Florida Newspapers Launch Subscription Electronic Versions: Freedom Interactive Newspapers of Florida–a division of Freedom Communications-…
Best Vertical Newspaper Site: Milwaukee
Best Vertical Newspaper Site: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has won the “Best Vertical Site” in the Digital Edge Awards by the Newspaper Associ…
Local Papers Launch Differential Pricing
Local Papers Launch Differential Pricing Subscription Versions: In an interesting experiment, three local newspapers–the Telegram & Gazette…
Dutch Newspaper’s Per Hour Access
Dutch Newspaper’s Per Hour Access Fee: This takes the prize of the most innovative (or weird, maybe?) subscription model– The Dutch newspa…
Canada’s History Since 1844, Now
Canada’s History Since 1844, Now in a Subscription Package: The Globe and Mail, Canada’s biggest daily newspaper, has released “Canada’s Her…
Weblogs For Newspapers?: Steve Outing
Weblogs For Newspapers?: Steve Outing exhorts newspapers to take up weblogging to connect with readers. “It could even be a paid subscriptio…
Wireless Newspapers?: At the NAA
Wireless Newspapers?: At the NAA
