Vanity Fair’s “Bono” Issue Demos High-End User Gen

Important Details: For its July issue, Vanity Fair turned to Bono, leader of U2 and acclaimed AIDS and anti-poverty activist, as “guest editor.” The result is a stunning issue, focused on a continent little covered than for the occasional violence, Africa. The issue tells readers ...

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Blog Net News Shows How to Corral Top-End Politics Blogs

Important Details: How do publishers corral the best of amateur content and then offer it to readers? News publishers and others can look to a homegrown, hip-pocket creation of a daily news staffer for some guidance. Blog Net News is the work of Dave Mastio, who in his day job works as an ...

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Washington Post Local Explorer Connects the Dots

Important Details: Think local, and you think maps. In the old world, it was Thomas Maps; in the new one, it’s been all Google, as Google Maps have redefined a way in, a way of finding out about local events, culture, businesses, and more, by location. Now WashingtonPost.com has trumped those ...

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Change in Internet Broadcasting Leadership Highlights Broadcast Network Growth

Important Details: Internet Broadcasting, an 11-year-old company that powers a network of 77 local broadcast station websites, announced a change at the top. David Lebow was named CEO, replacing Reid Johnson, a founder of the company. Lebow comes to the company from AOL Media Networks, where he ...

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Voxant’s “Newsroom” One of Few That’s Growing

Important Details: Online video. Online advertising. It’s one of the main matings of 2007, as industry estimates say online video ads are expected to pick up share from text paid search in the coming years. Outsell’s own Annual Ad Spending Survey (Jan. 19, 2007) reported that online ...

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Broadcasters Test The Rev Share Economy in Open-Web Agreements

Important Details: The licensing of local broadcast news by Hearst Argyle – from five TV stations – to YouTube is a first-of-its-kind deal. In licensing local broadcast news for the free web, Hearst Argyle is agreeing to take related ad revenue shares, and YouTube is for the first ...

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AP Licenses A Content “Radar” System

Important Details: Ask the Associated Press (AP) how the news it produces in five languages out of 243 bureaus in 97 countries is being used on the web today, and you’ll get an incomplete answer. The AP, like most news publishers, knows the content licensing agreements it has in place, ...

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Dow Jones Puts Itself on the Market

Important Details: Publicly, the Bancroft family, which controls 64% of the Dow Jones voting stock, had been steadfast. Despite a 67% premium offered for the company by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., the family had said “no, not interested.” As the family heard presentations ...

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Knight Foundation Pumps $12 Million Into Digital Future

Important Details: The Knight Foundation, a leader in journalism education and civic engagement in more than 20 cities across the US, named the first winners in its five-year program to blaze new pathways in digital journalism. The Foundation, the 24th largest in the nation with $2 billion in ...

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Chronicle Plans to Cut a Quarter of the Newsroom

Important Details: The San Francisco Chronicle is readying significant job cutbacks in the newsroom, cutbacks that may include as many as 100 of the 400 journalists in its newsroom. That’s a 25% cutback, one of the steepest among reductions in force across the beleaguered newspaper ...

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