Online Advertising Slowly Moves Local

Important Details: Online advertising is growing quickly, but the challenge of getting smaller businesses into the online advertising mainstream is still a work in progress, according to several speakers at this week’s Kelsey Group’s ...

Disney Launches Family.com

Important Details: This week Disney announced it is launching Family.com, aiming to be a one-stop resource for parents — especially moms — on the web. It’s an ambitious product, resonating with most of the bells and whistles ...

News and Social Publishing Meet and Match

Important Details: You know what USAToday.com does. And you kind of understand what MySpace does. Now the very definition of news and social networking sites is blurring as they move closer to each other. Take recent developments: USAToday.com ...

News Ad Production Moves to Pune

Important Details: Ads, ads, ads. That’s much of what people in the news industry talk about these days, as paid circulation and subscription revenues dwindle and ad revenues are challenged on several fronts by a variety of competitors. ...

News Publishers Move into College Markets

Important Details: MediaNews, now the fourth-largest news publisher in the U.S., has announced its first niche distribution partnership in the college market. The company is partnering with AfterCollege. The initiative: upsell classified ...

AP Wades Into the Crowd to Gather the News

Important 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 ...

Real Estate Advertising Gets a Move On

Important 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 ...

Readers Know the News Business is Changing

Important 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 ...

Print is So Over…Says the New York Times?

Important 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 ...