The Newsonomics of Impaq.me and News Impacting You

First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   Related: The Newsonomics of (California Watch’s Single, Investigative Story Three Reasons to Watch California Watch The Death and Life of California News Foundations Move to Fill News Gap     Hello there! It’s me, your ...

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Nine Questions: Savior Bezos, Chronicle Debacle, Patch Undone, the Long Beach Lunge & More

Is reader revenue one of the answers to the next stage of hyperlocal? The halving of Patch ("The newsonomics of Patch's unraveling", today at the Nieman Journalism Lab) is just another curve on the long road to marry local news and digital. Like Backfence and many newspaper forays, it has found ...

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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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INN’s First Big Deal: The Reuters Test

For Reuters, it's a leg up in the agency world, and part of its big U.S. push (see my Thursday Nieman lab column, "The newsonomics of Reuters' Americanization"). Reuters gets a semi-exclusive, able to exclude a handful of key competitors, including AP, from doing similar syndication. The wire ...

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The Newsonomics of Kindle Singles

In fact, Kindle Singles may open the door even further to wider news business application, for news companies — old and new, publicly funded and profit-seeking, text-based and video-oriented. It takes the old 78s and 33 1/3s, and opens a world of 45s, mixes, and infinite remixes. It says: You ...

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If “Weekly” is So Yesterday, How Do We Explain These Round-Ups

The conventional wisdom (to borrow an old phrase iconized by Newsweek): weekly reading bio-rhythms are dead; it's a 24-/7 news world and let's get on with it. One problem: the human brain.

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Seattle Times: “We’re the LOCAL Traffic Leader”

The two sites still appear fairly close in most metrics, with the major disagreement coming on the basis of what the Times considers it stronger "local" penetration. The impact on advertisers is, of course, another story again, as the dirty, little secret of many "local" news websites -- for ...

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Nine Questions: Flipping the PI, NY’s 4 Dailies, Re-Kindling Women Readers, Talking USAToday, Journalistic Deviance and More!

8) Will the Post-Intelligencer Flip the Switch in Seattle? You know, go online-only. (Is online the onliest medium?) With Hearst's Ken Riddick and the PI's Michelle Nicolosi working through the what-ifs, we may have a new, great test to watch. We’d be able to compare the online PI to the ...

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