Reuters America Claims New Territory; First Stop, Chicago & Tribune

Still, it will be an intriguing test. Beyond the immediate test, we're seeing how flexible news content delivery is getting to be. Demand Media is selling content to USA Today and Hearst papers, while Reuters and Tribune buddy up to Examiner. Mix and match is the order of the day and ...

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Nine Questions on Patch’s New Push: National Hyperlocal?, SEO Sauces, and the Case of the Besieged Florist

So who's the ad competition? Maybe we should ask, who isn't? ...The question, here, is one of sustainability. Certainly, there's the question whether Patch can sustain itself, as its parent AOL struggles to find a new identity and growing business model. Then, there's the question of the ...

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Harlan Ellison Examines Associated Content Demands — or Pay the Writer!

Writer Harlan Ellison's impassioned, profanity-laced tirade against those who expect writers to work for free is making new rounds via the viralness of .... the free web, of course. We can have good abstract talks about content factories, content mills and the Pro-Am world. Ellison's rant is a ...

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Last Man Standing? NYT and WSJ Move on Metro Markets

It's hard to gauge the impact of New York Times and Wall Street Journal moves into metro markets. They could be simple, print retention strategies aimed, at holding on to valuable print readers — the magnets for still-lucrative print advertising — for as long as possible. ...

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