The Newsonomics of New News Syndication

Some have said that in the digital world, news companies need to think of themselves both as creators and aggregators, doing what they do best and linking to the rest. Let’s amend that: creators, aggregators, and syndicators, doing what they do best, licensing with zest and linking to the rest.

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Bay Area Online News Renaissance: 7 Pointers Forward

For daily newspapers, the growth of alternative journalisms is both a promise and a threat. It's a promise of getting high-quality, low-cost (California Watch charged even large metros just a few hundred dollars, though it is reviewing its business models going forward), without having to pay ...

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Google’s Fast Flip Dips Publishers’ Toes in Google’s Own Ad Revenues

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 the slow replacement of news search 1.0 and one ...

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