The Associated Press, otherwise known as AP, have a hate – hate relationship with anything to do with the Internet but with bloggers in particular. It’s not just that the AP is the sole provider of about 95% of the non-local ‘news’ that shows […]
As the paywall experiment at the New York Times continues, another major regional newspaper has adopted the selfsame model used by the Gray Lady and a growing number of area news outlets to allow limited free access before charging for content. […]
I think it’s not entirely alarmist to say “everybody panic” right about now. If you write for blogs, and have done for any reasonable amount of time, you’ve probably been sneered at with the oft-misspelled comment “what do you think […]
Long Island-centric newspaper and website Newsday– which became one of the first sites of its type to instate a paywall back in 2010- may actually be reaping benefits from its paying customers only web strategy after all. When the site […]
Or so says Gawker. Actually, the New York Times itself posted yesterday about the new commenting system on its site, and Gawker posted about that, adding that the staid paper is a total copycat. The Times says: The first thing you’ll probably […]
Even though Hugh Hefner makes more money in a minute than you do in a year and lives in a house built entirely of high-grade silicone women, it’s hard not to feel a little bad for him. Pretty much the […]
As the Kindle Fire makes its way into consumers’ hot little hands all around the US and Barnes & Noble readies to launch the Nook Tablet, it seems magazine publishers are scrambling to get their content onto the devices sooner […]
Publisher Condé Nast is bringing all of its titles- with the exception of heavy fashion tome Vogue- to the soon-to-be released Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet, the publisher announced today. 17 of the 18 titles, Vogue excepted, will be available by the […]
Earlier this week, the New York Times branched out specialized iPad apps with the launch of new iPad magazine The Collection. Per Women’s Wear Daily, the app- updated daily- will pull content from Times properties such as Styles, On the Runway, […]
In the realm of web news, who would you peg as major players? CNN? Fox? MSNBC? You can probably tell where this is going, since you read the headline. But CNN.com’s vice president and managing editor Meredith Artley says when it […]
While most news outlets, traditional and new, have picked up Twitter as a tool to disseminate their content, few are tapping into the full potential of social media because their usage of such services tends to flow only one way, […]
Tech blog VentureBeat has entered into a “content sharing partnership” with newspaper and news site the Washington Post, both companies have announced. VentureBeat wrote up a post on the new pairing, and says that a selection of VentureBeat’s daily offerings […]
ABC News is reporting that their ABCNews.com portal witnessed a 98% increase in traffic in October when compared to September traffic numbers, an increase witnessed directly after the company signed a partnership agreement with Yahoo, Inc. When the two company’s […]
Domestic doyenne Martha Stewart stopped by Google to chat with Marissa Meyer for their @Google Talks series, discussing her new cookbook, her feelings on mobile publishing and how to engage a web audience. Stewart is releasing a new tome titled Martha’s […]