May 10, 2024
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Important Details: The launch of Google News Archive may be remembered as a Humpty-Dumpty event for news publishers and providers. Until today, finding an article more than seven days old has often been difficult, sometimes torturous. Now as the first archival eggs have fallen from the top ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Did you just love British actress Emily Blunt in “The Devil Wears Prada”? Can’t wait to find out what Susan Sarandon’s next movie will be? Then, you may be interested in The New York Times’ recent purchase of Baseline Studio Systems. For ...
Read MoreWhat We’re Seeing: You know the question. What if newspapers went away completely one day? As a good impatient journalist, probably tired of hearing newsroom people grousing about the decline of the industry and how "no one reads anymore," Amy Webb did a smart thing. She stopped ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It’s tough to keep up with the announcements churning off the Google PR conveyor belt – and to pick out the ones that have larger implications among those that are really just small "beta" tests that may not amount to much. The recent ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Recency/Relevance. Relevance/Recency. Tired of the toggle? The ubiquitous search box has seeped into our collective consciousness. Though it often produces inadequate results and endless lists, users are now conditioned to entering the words and perusing the lists. Users are ...
Read MoreImportant Details: As publishing revenues flatline, investors are looking for new leadership. Leadership that promises and seems capable of growing revenue and seeing the Internet more as an opportunity than a threat. Leadership that may not come from traditional publishing ranks. Still, ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Contact. Content. Context. Those three C’s tell us a lot about the Internet news business. Publishers produce the content, but have too little contact with the users, who have found search aggregator sites largely more appealing. As the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It’s been a long-simmering dispute between news publishers and search aggregators. What’s fair and what’s legal, as the search aggregators index headlines and story leads from open news Web sites? Ask the aggregators, and they’ll tell you ...
Read MoreImportant Details: After McClatchy’s purchase of Knight Ridder earlier this year, circulation stats told us that McClatchy was becoming the second-largest newspaper company in the country. Events this week tell us it’s claiming spot No. 3, following both Gannett and ...
Read MoreImportant Details: You need a scorecard, an Excel spreadsheet, and a sheath of 10-Ks to keep track of the recent maneuvering in the newspaper industry. Blame (or credit) the moves on the falling dominoes out of the Knight Ridder demise. That sale and subsequent divestment of 12 of the KR ...
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