4 more papers dropping AP (2)
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The Bakersfield Californian, The Spokesman-Review, The Yakima Herald-Republic and Wenatchee World are all following in the footsteps of The Post Register to drop Associated Press after the AP announced new rates. And the Review is trying to drop AP without the two-year required advance notice. Adds Rob in comments: “With Yakima and Wenatchee — two of the other major Eastern Washington papers (along with Spokane’s Spokesman-Review) — joining suit in dumping AP, I wonder if ...
WSJ tests, fails (1)
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Gawker spotted this push-button publishing mistake at the Wall Street Journal: Gawker explains: In an email to subscribers this afternoon, the Wall Street Journal included one of its signature market-moving stock market columns, published at 5:04 p.m. Wait, but they usually embargo “Heard On The Street” until morning! Well, it’s pretty clear from the headline, “TEST TEST Duke Hits A Ditch,” that the story wasn’t quite ready for the proverbial prime time! But the subhead ...
Get the Wall Street Journal Free on Your BlackBerry, Even If You Aren't Gordon Gekko (1)
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I only read two sections of the WSJ, partly because it's behind a pay wall, though there are ways around it. Their new Mobile Reader for BlackBerry drops the entire paper for free, constantly updated, right to your phone in an interface that actually works. Silicon Alley Insider says it's the best newspaper app for any phone yet.
کاش دري به تخته بخورد! (1)
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شايد بايد به صداوسيما حق داد که سعي مي کند در پخش تصاوير و اخبار بازي هاي المپيک، صرفه جويي کند. بزرگ ترين رويداد ورزشي جهان - که در هر دهه نهايتاً 2 بار اتفاق مي افتد- در جريان است و سهم ما تا اينجاي مسابقات، يک هيچِ بزرگ بوده است. اين موضوع، پيش و بيش از اينکه از ناچيز بودن توان ورزشکاران کاروان ايران خبر بدهد، نشان ضعف مديران عرصه ورزش و سردرگمي ايشان ...
Topix CEO: Lack of local news helps us (3)
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There are some interesting takeaways from this column written by Topix CEO Chris Tolles. (Topix is a local news aggregator and community that’s focused on regions, cities and neighborhoods.) First, Tolles does some rough math: There are about 1,400 daily newspapers and 7,000 television and radio stations in the U.S., and back-of-the-envelope math shows that they each produce about three to six stories per day, or about 22,000 local stories for the entire U.S. If ...
10 reasons to still buy a newspaper (1)
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IHT, originally uploaded by noodlepie. What with this summer's stateside massacre and the recent carnage in Britain I thought I'd attempt to justify my recent subscription to the print edition of a daily newspaper. Here are (nearly) ten reasons why you too should subscribe to a daily deadwoood in the digital age, It's cheap. The home delivered version of the IHT costs me less per day than the price of one espresso. It's not quite ...
Guardian column: Do we need editors? (4)
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This week’s Guardian column asks whether editors are a luxury we can afford. (There’s a separate version online here where comments can and I suspect will be made.)
What is the future of the copy editor? (1)
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Do copy editors have a future in journalism? Will that role be drastically changing? Traditionally, copy editors at most newspapers had to do more than just edit copy. They also had to do page layout, fit stories to fixed spaces, write headlines, write captions, etc. Obviously, page layout is not needed on the Web, and every beat blogger should understand SEO for headline writing. And it might make sense to replace most captions with tags. ...
US: chicagotribune.com increased traffic after joining social media world (1)
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Social channels like Facebook, Digg, Flickr, Twitter and Youtube could help newspapers like the Chicago Tribune become "more approachable", according to The Huffington Post. After its entry into social media, the Tribune saw an instantaneous surge in traffic and an 8% growth in pageviews. "Essentially, social media gives us a year-round, real-time focus group to monitor conversations and keep us in tune with what consumers are thinking," said Bill Adee, associate managing editor for innovation ...
Huffington Post goes local (and the press doesn’t like it) (3)
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By now you’ve heard that the enormously successful Huffington Post has launched a local clone in Chicago. It’s what I call a local information aggregator and something I have recommended to clients for years. The home page is typical Huffington Post, only this one contains a chilling headline just to the right of the lead: So Huffpo Chicago rises, while the Tribune sinks, and this has not escaped the attention of the institutional press. In ...
BusinessWeek: Where Newspapers Are Thriving (1)
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The Chinese Government Guide To Olympic Journalism [Propaganda] (1)
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When a Hong Kong paper said earlier this week that it had gotten its hands on a 21-point memo from the Chinese government's propaganda unit telling the national media how it must cover the Olympics, the head of the Beijing Olympic committee scoffed, "There is no such 21-point document. Chinese media, according to the Chinese constitution, are free to report on the games." But then the Sydney Morning Herald got the same document, and published ...
The AP–Of All Places–As News Industry Think-Tank (2)
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The Associated Press has taken a beating in some quarters lately over perceptions–largely misguided, I believe–that it's somehow competing online with its newspaper members. Not only does this reflect a misunderstanding of what the AP does, but a lot of critics seem to forget that AP is owned by those newspapers. It's a rare example of newspaper ownership of a savvy online player, and a lot better than the alternative (think: Reuters. Or Google).One of ...
Is Covering The Olympics Worth The Price? [Media] (1)
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The New York Times has 32 reporters covering the Olympics in Beijing. Thirty-two! That's quite an investment from a company in the newspaper industry. Any big cash outlay is risky these days. Without relying on the crutch of "official budget numbers," we combined our sophisticated economic estimation skills with a patented "Media Value" formula to determine: Is this Olympics coverage worth the cost? Read on! How Much Does It Cost? Travel: Expedia is offering four-night ...
NYTimes.com: More Californians Visiting than NYers? (1)
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... That's what Google Trends says. Like I've said, sometimes when you're poking around for other work, you find curious stats. Like, today, if you search "NYTimes.com" in Google Trends, it shows that more visits come from California than New York.
Adding Up The Newspaper Cutbacks (4)
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How severe have the recent cutbacks in newspaper staffing and operations been? Pretty severe. Over the past few days, I've built a database of the cuts over the past year at the nation's 100 largest newspapers (measured by circulation), and here's what I found: More than 6,300 employees at the 100 largest newspapers have lost jobs through buyouts or layoffs in the past year. More than half of those cutbacks have come since the beginning ...
Let's be trusted Twitter friends (1)
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Some newspapers have been experimenting with Twitter since its early days (you know, two years ago) and the number of newspaper-affiliated accounts continues to grow, according to Erica Smith's stats.It's up to 303. That sounds great. Newspapers innovating with a new technology. Rah, rah! But Smith's stats also show newspapers haven't figured out to be very effective. The average number of followers of her newspaper list is 132 followers per account.it's not too awfully hard ...
F.B.I. Says It Obtained Reporters’ Phone Records (4)
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that it had improperly obtained the phone records of reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post in the newspapers’ Indonesia bureaus in 2004.
