Posts Tagged ‘
heritage media ’
UK News Corp newspaper The Times has started blocking some sites from indexing its content using the Robots.txt standard, demonstrating that not only do they know how to do it, there's no longer any excuse when it ...
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A study published by the Fair Syndication Consortium, an industry body backed by major media outlets in the United States, has found that blogs aren't primarily responsible for content theft.
The study found that blogs account for less ...
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News Corp founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch has told an interview with Sky News Australia that News Corp will likely remove News Corp content from Google.
The revelation came early in the interview, after Murdoch claimed that Google ...
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Among the doomsayers and Luddites at Sydney's Media140 conference (see my earlier review here) this week there were some positive people, some on stage, but more again in the audience.
Without the benefit of actually undertaking a ...
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At the last minute I made the decision to fly up to Sydney to attend Australia's first Media140 conference. I mostly needed a break away from home, which makes the "blogger" pass I got into the conference ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is preparing to launch new guidelines that will legally force disclosure on blog posts that involve "compensation" to the blogger writing it.
The guidelines, coming primarily in response to paid posting, are ...
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One of the most common lines used in defense of the mainstream media is that we need journalists, because bloggers can't be believed. The line argues that journalists are trustworthy because they tell the truth, and if ...
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Connecticut State Representatives are petitioning the State to subsidize The Bristol Press and The Herald of New Britain, two papers facing shutdown in January as we reported November 11.
The letter from seven Democrat State Representatives to the ...
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Back in July I argued that broadcast television would be the first heritage media medium to fall. The reasons I gave hold true today: broadcast television is the least prepared for the changes ahead, and not having ...
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The Journal Register Company will close two of its daily newspapers in Connecticut unless a buyer is found by January.
The two papers facing closure are the Bristol Press and The Herald of New Britain, reports the Hartford ...
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The Tribune Company, the publisher of The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday and others has reported a $124 milliion loss for the 3rd quarter, down from a profit of $84 million for the same quarter ...
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Another week on bad news for the newspaper industry, with cuts and a serious cash crisis facing the New York Times.
The New York Times owned Boston Globe has cut 42 jobs, mostly managers in advertising, circulation and ...
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The Seattle Times will cut around 10%, or around 130-150 positions, following a similar cut at the beginning of the year.
In a memo to staff, Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen and company President Carolyn Kelly (as published ...
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As revenue heads south, smart newspapers are looking at different ways they can adapt to survive. At the extreme end, The Christian Science Monitor announced yesterday that it was moving to a primarily online model and abandoning ...
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And so it begins. The 100 year old newspaper The Christian Science Monitor has announced that it will cease publishing its daily print edition, switching primarily to an online only presence. The paper will publish a weekend ...
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Circulation figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) shows an increasing decline in newspaper circulation in the United States.
According to the figures for the 6 months to September, national daily circulation dropped 4.6% to 38,165,848 ...
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The other day I wrote post here about how Paul Boutin declared that blogging was oh so 2004 and was dying an ignoble death. Now we are being told that the Grey Lady herself might just be on ...
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Now it's official: the death spiral of newspapers is accelerating, with the largest newspaper publisher in the United States reporting an increased decline in advertising revenue.
Gannett, which publishes the USA Today and a range of titles domestically ...
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The Associated Press (AP) has backflipped on its decision to increase membership rates in 2009, a key factor in the growing list of papers seeking to terminate their AP content agreements.
AP said its board of directors had ...
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The New York Times released their 3rd quarter results today, adding to the doom and gloom in the newspaper market with declining advertising and debt issues.
The company reported 3rd quarter net income of $6.5 million, compared to ...
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Newspaper group The McClatchy Company has posted a third quarter profit despite a decline in ad revenues.
McClatchy posted a net income for the quarter ending September 28 of $4.2 million, or 5 cents a share, compared to ...
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PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Analyst Marcel Fenez has told the World Association of Newspapers readership conference that traditional media has 5 years left until the death clock kicks in.
Fenez argues that globally print media has growth opportunities, and expects ...
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