Of Man, Machine, Google News’ Editor’s Picks and Emerging from the Dark Ages

What Editor's Picks is a response to is an intriguing question. Yes, Google still is the huge driver of traffic to news sites, much as they differentiate the value of its many fly-by referrals from the relative few that make a meaningful revenue difference, sending, it says, more than a billion ...

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“Smart” Slate: New Game, New Rules?

We could say that news companies -- from Slate to the Journal and Times -- have figured out that playing the ad game by someone else's rules didn't make a lot of sense. In the game of gross numbers, they couldn't win.

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