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| Death of a Chronicle Foretold on Recovering Journalist "Sure, they've got blogs, maybe a podcast or two (how 2005), possibly some online discussions with staffers, maybe, just maybe, a submit-your-photo feature, or story comments. But where's the aggregation of local content, the hyperlocal and niche sites, the local database maps, the sophisticated ad formats, the aggressive efforts to bring readers into the conversation and solicit user-generated content to augment and enhance expensive professional coverage?" | The Chronicle Faces Collapse: A Collection of Links on Spot.Us "…which would make San Francisco the first major American city without a major daily newspaper…." |
| New York Times Betting on Neighborhood Blogs on Sillicon Alley Insider "The New York Times (NYT) will experiment with hyperlocal blogs, starting with two next Monday, Brownstoner reports. Each site will be led by a NYT journalist, but the paper will also use free neighborhood contributors and will work with CUNY journalism students." | Top 30 Newspaper Websites, Time Spent On-Site on E&P "NYT tops the list at 35 minutes/month; Newsday (NJ.com) bottoms the lists at 4:30." |
| Hearst to Bring Out an E-Reader? by Michael Copeland "Against a backdrop of plummeting ad revenue for newspapers and magazines, and rising costs for paper and delivery, Hearst Corp., is getting set to launch an electronic reader that it hopes can do for periodicals what Amazon's Kindle is doing for books." | Why Small Payments Won't Save Publishers by Clay Shirky "When I am talking about some event that just happened, whether it’s an earthquake or a basketball game, whether the conversation is in email or Facebook or Twitter, I want to link to what I’m talking about, and I want my friends to be able to read it easily, and to share it with their friends. This is superdistribution — content moving from friend to friend through the social network, far from the original source of the story. Superdistribution, despite its unweildy name, matters to users. It matters a lot. It matters so much, in fact, that we will routinely prefer a shareable amateur source to a professional source that requires us to keep the content a secret on pain of lawsuit." |
| Journalism's fatal disconnect from business by Cory Bergman "But nearly every one of these discussions, attended mostly by journalists and academics, downgrades into a frustrating and largely meaningless exchange of ideas. The problem: journalists wash their hands of the business side of the equation. That’s the business guys’ problem, said one newspaper journalist. But it’s not. It’s everyone’s problem. And the 'Great Wall' separating news and the business side has expedited newspapers’ decline." | Jay Rosen's Comment on Bergman's Post "We could say our staffer is just continuing to observe the wall between business and editorial, but lobbing opinions like grenades over it, hoping one will explode and wake up the business guys, who will then realize it’s time to solve the problem... I’m not against charging, by the way. I’m against people who think that they can go back behind their wall and just do journalism again if the idiots in charge of the business would bite the bullet and charge!" |
| Spot.Us by David Cohn "We are an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting.” Through Spot.Us the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories." | SF Appeal, published by Eve Batey This is a new digital daily that's going to start publishing next week. We can't wait to see what it looks like! |
| Public Press, Noncommercial news for the Bay "Welcome to the Public Press, an emerging concept for a noncommercial daily Web/print/broadcast collaborative news service. The idea is to put journalism first -- operating as a nonprofit organization that prioritizes public service over commerce. One idea is to eliminate advertising altogether, creating a robustly independent specialized vehicle for serious news. A newspaper born in the 21st century could experiment with new forms of "reverse" publishing -- pulling commentary, blogs and alternative news perspectives into print dynamically." | Newsless.org by Matt Thompson: "I’m often asked, 'Do people really want context? Say you build out all these neat-o topic pages laying out the context behind the headlines. Do you really think anyone’s going to read that stuff?' I say I don’t look at it as a matter of whether people want context, but when. If you told me in July of 2007 that one of the hottest articles on StarTribune.com would be a detailed explanation of the workings of gusset plates and roller bearings in bridge engineering, I would have raised a very quizzical eyebrow. But when that bridge fell in August, gusset plates were the new Britney Spears." |
| Doesn't digital leave the masses stranded without news? Steve Yelvington on Twitter: "Digital Divide watch: Dell Mini 9 dipped below $200 earlier today. Laptop + a year of Internet now cheaper than many print papers." | Wikis to (Re)build the News by Daniel Bachhuber: "The critical point is that is has to be more than what Google Reader Mobile already offers me. I’d like to be able to comment on stories, see what my friends are reading and think interesting, and be able to interact with real world extensions of journalism. If I’m reading the weekly print edition, then I’d enjoy being able to take my phone out and see how other people have reacted to the information. It should support pull journalism too, allowing me to look up the ecological impact of restaurant choices, etc." |
| The Twenty Five Most Valuable Blogs on 24/7 Wall Street: "Gawker Properties... In combination, the sites have about 23 million unique visitors and over 200 million pageviews a month... The average CPM for each page across all of the properties is estimated at $15. That makes Gawker at $36 million business... HuffPo is probably the most well-known 'blog' in the world... CPM per page as low as $5, putting a 2009 annual revenue estimate at about $11 million." | Recession? Local news sites are hanging tough by David Westphal: "The anecdotal answer from my small sample group is this: So far they're hanging tough. Business hasn't fallen much, if at all, and most are instituting expansion plans. If they're a barometer, community news sites have some resiliency to them... Tracy Record and Patrick Sand, another husband/wife team who operate West Seattle Blog, are getting revenue in the high five figures... And Bob Gough, who runs Quincy News, pockets $1,000 a week in wages from his startup that serves an Illinois community of only 40,000." |
Rubel:
"Dear media companies: Thank you for making so much
content available forfree online for 15 years. I am sure
you're eager tomonetize it all beyond ads.The good news
is your greatwhite hope has arrived. It's the Amazon
Kindle....This couldbe yourlast chance to monetize
content."
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