April 27, 2024
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Important Details: The recent Belgian court ruling against Google has sent minor shockwaves through the content publishing world. The court ruled that Google did not have the right to take headlines and brief paragraphs from news websites and include them in versions of Google News. It ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It’s a simple but profound idea: "There will be someone at the scene of almost everything." That’s the thinking behind the Associated Press’ just-announced agreement with crowd-sourcing news site NowPublic.com, as expressed by AP’s Jim ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Think real estate advertising has already changed a lot? Think again. Much of the real estate ad revolution is yet to come. Realty companies have seen the Web changing buying and selling relationships. In the early years of the Web, though, they were concerned about the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: In a recent national survey, Outsell’s research finds that publishers and editors aren’t the only ones concerned about news coverage and the changing economics of the business. Readers have noticed the industry’s economic woes, and many of them are concerned ...
Read MoreImportant Details: What’s the future of the New York Times? Apparently it is journalism. That’s what Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger made a point of saying in a recent Davos session, now being re-sent around the world courtesy of an interview in the Israeli daily Haaretz and ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Speakers at SIIA’s annual Information Industry Summit offered some insights into the tectonic changes — advertising model shifts, company-created content, user-generated content, niching — underway as the year begins. A few highlights: On the heels of ...
Read MoreImportant Details: This week, the Sacramento Bee launches Capitol Alert, a new California state politics-and-money newsletter, aimed at lobbyists. The newsletter, priced at $499 annually, focuses on immediacy and on expert commentary. The Bee has long been a paper of record for the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Blogs seem to have gone from a laughingstock to mainstream in about three years. Now, 13% of the news site traffic of the top 10 news sites, according to a new Nielsen//NetRatings report, comes from blog content. That number is up dramatically from 4% a year ago. Blog traffic ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The Tribune Company’s board meets Saturday (Jan. 20) to assess bids for the company. After a four-month auction, it looks like that board is in for a long weekend as three disparate bids, all received at the deadline, show just how tricky – and low – ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Wondering who’s started a city or neighborhood site in your area? The new PlaceBlogger, launched this week, now makes it easy to get a quick look at who’s doing what, country-by-country, state-by-state and city-by-city. The site lays out a broad mandate about the ...
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