Content Software Technology

Important Details:  Tribune Company announced a new partnership with technology provider Mediaspectrum, aiming at quickly spreading self-service display advertising technology among US daily newspapers. Tribune has been testing the self-service set of tools at six of its eight newspaper properties, with the final two due to join in soon. “We’re trying to bring the industry [...]

Important Details:  Google released Fast Flip, its effort to escape from the text-bound news search world, and to re-energize its relationship with news publishers.  Fast Flip is a visual feast or optical overkill, depending on how you take it in.  Organized by title, topic, most recent and recommended, the product — still formally in Google [...]

Important Details:  Jim Tyree thinks his group can swing a good deal to buy the (Chicago) Sun-Times Media Group out of bankruptcy. Tyree, CEO of Chicago-based Mesirow Financial, believes that the Sun-Times, Chicago’s tab daily and second paper, and its sister papers — 58 in total, largely suburban-based — can be operated profitably. He is [...]

Important Details:  Gannett’s Journal-News, located just north of New York City, has been a significant test ground for Gannett, the leading US news publisher with 82 dailies and more than 400 non-dailies. The Journal-News has been an early leader in staff and community blogging as those new forms drive above-average traffic on its website, LoHud.com [...]

Important Details: News Corp, which became the number one news company worldwide in 2008, is asserting its leadership among its peers. News Corp now is the worldwide leader in news revenues, according to the recently released Outsell report, News Providers & Publishers:  2008 Final Market Size and Share Report, July 28, 2009. It totaled almost [...]

Important Details:  Paid content — getting new revenues from readers — is getting the lion’s share of attention this summer. Yet, news companies’ moves to transform their local sales operations from print+ to full-bore digital continue apace.  The latest evidence of that push is the announcement that Advance Internet is  partnering with Microsoft. With that [...]

Important Details: Take two reports, one issued in the U.S. and one in the U.K. within the last month, and you can see the fundamental foment within the news trade. That foment continues to blur the lines between profit-based and non-profit-based journalism. On June 16, the British government issued Digital Britain, a wide-ranging plan for [...]

Important Details: The post-election Iran discord is the biggest global story of the week — and one of the most visual. So if you want to get a visual sense of what’s going there, where might you go? You could check in on Reuters, AP, BBC or WSJ, and get those sites’ video. Or, now, [...]

Important Details: You can mark the urgency of US news publishers’ push to find new business models by cities. First came “San Diego.” The April meeting of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) produced headlines like, “Publishers Mad as Hell” — about content piracy and the difficulty of making the web business pay — and [...]

Important Details: The decline of US newspapers has caught the attention of the foundation community, and it is responding with large and increasing sums to offset lost investigative and local reporting. J-Lab — the American University-based intiative in interactive journalism — has rounded up data on journalism-oriented giving.  It has identified almost $128 million in [...]