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Important Details: San Francisco financier Warren Hellman has announced one of the most ambitious independent online news start-ups. He’s putting up seed money of $5 million with plans to hire “dozens of journalists” to cover ...
Charging for non-desktop/laptop access should be a new revenue stream for news publishers. The math, though, isn't huge. Who is most likely to pay for Journal mobile? Presumably it's online subscribers, of whom there are about a million. So $12 ...
Fast Flip, Google's hardly secret visual news search product, just made its debut today. It's a premiere that tells us lots about the swirling tradewinds in which the company now finds itself. It also marks two important milestones, one about ...
If it fact, the ability to charge -- and get paid -- is based on having a good degree of proprietary content, then maybe it is the weeklies who have a better chance of bundling print and online than city dailies. Those that have websites or ...
The main difference: Advance Internet is maintaining its own ad platform, currently powered by 24/7 RealMedia, and integrating with Microsoft. Yahoo Newspaper Consortium members have fully adopted the Yahoo APT platform for their ad serving ...
If there's a better realpolitiks player in the news industry than Murdoch, please stand up. If not, Murdoch knows that News Corp putting up a pay wall would be akin to unilateral disarmament -- and that's something only pinkos do. Put on up a ...
Important Details: National Public Radio has re-launched its new national website, multiplying the amount of the its content and improving its immediacy. Importantly, it also re-imagined its national/local handoffs, connections that have been ...
What is Christine Varney taking from her newspaper industry talks? Obama's new anti-trust chief has drawn a lot of attention for her interest in Google's books deal, and beyond that, to Google's great search dominance. Varney has also been ...
Search advertising does have an impact on newspaper companies. Most consortium members take Yahoo search and paid search, both services that would be replaced by Microsoft's new Bing and related products. The newspapers' paid search deal with ...
By my calculation, readers (print and/or online) of news from U.S. newspaper companies will see about three quarters of a million stories fewer in 2009 than they did in say, 2006, before this big round of cuts began. I get to the number starting ...
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