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Publishers Embrace Content For Mobile, Up 9% Over Last Year

Publishers Embrace Content For Mobile, Up 9% Over Last Year

Content for mobile is proving to be a major growth area for traditional publishers, who are adapting the practice of optimizing their publications for e-readers, smartphones and other mobile devices at a breakneck pace. 85% of the magazines in the […]

‘New York Times’ Paywall Actually Bumped Home Analog Subscribers

‘New York Times’ Paywall Actually Bumped Home Analog Subscribers

While the controversial paywall implemented by the New York Times has not yet managed to offset print losses, there is some good circulation news that the paper of record can chalk up to the move. Several papers across the country […]

StarTribune Latest Paper to Throw Up Paywall, Expects Decent Return on Decision

StarTribune Latest Paper to Throw Up Paywall, Expects Decent Return on Decision

If the New York Times paywall has been successful at anything, it’s certainly been in inspiring other newspapers to enact similar pricing structures. The Boston Globe and the Dallas Morning News were among some city papers to follow the Gray […]

Google And Yahoo Launching Digital Newsstands Next Week [Report]

Google And Yahoo Launching Digital Newsstands Next Week [Report]

Yahoo and Google are both expected to unveil new digital newsstand apps next week according to a report by All Things D. Yahoo will hit first with their Livestand app launching on Wednesday followed by Google who will release their Propeller […]

UK Online Newspapers Witness Declining Traffic

UK Online Newspapers Witness Declining Traffic

September wasn’t a good month to be a UK national newspaper. According to figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulation major newspapers in the country all witnessed declining site numbers including MailOnline which fell below the 70 million mark. […]

New York Times Digital Gains Won’t Offset Print Losses, Analyst Says

New York Times Digital Gains Won’t Offset Print Losses, Analyst Says

Analysis of the success of the New York Times‘ precedent-setting paywall- which has inspired newspapers across the US to enact similar subscription models- is still ongoing. Reaction to the model has been mixed as media companies are continually seeking ways […]

Radio listening hours take a big hit in a new media world

Radio listening hours take a big hit in a new media world

When it comes to the effect that  the Web is having on our world most of the attention is directed towards video and big music media companies, however there is also another player in the old media world that is […]

B2B Social Media Mags Launching, But Print is Low on the Agenda

B2B Social Media Mags Launching, But Print is Low on the Agenda

A group of new magazines covering social media are launching this week from GSG World Media, but not surprisingly, print is nearly an afterthought for the publications with a hyperconnected focus. It will be interesting to see if mainly-digital launches […]

Newspapers going retro with ads while saying ‘smart people read newspapers’

Newspapers going retro with ads while saying ‘smart people read newspapers’

I ran across this rather interesting advertising campaign from the Newspaper Association of America courtesy of Thomas Baekdal that seems to be insinuating that the really smart people out there are newspaper readers while the rest of us are losers […]

So much for the tablet being the savior of “pay-to-read” news

So much for the tablet being the savior of “pay-to-read” news

When the iPad was first rumored to be launching news media companies were all failing over themselves to rush out and get apps made for the new platform because they were being told that this was how they could start making money, […]

Guardian Expects One Millionth Facebook App Install This Weekend

Guardian Expects One Millionth Facebook App Install This Weekend

On September 22, 2011 the Guardian launched their beta version of a new Facebook news reading application and now one month later the company says they are about to surpass one million app installations. On October 5, two weeks after […]

Daniel Victor Joining ProPublica As Social Media Editor

Daniel Victor Joining ProPublica As Social Media Editor

ProPublica on Tuesday announced that Daniel Victor is joining their investigative newsroom as the company’s new social media editor. Daniel will join the team in November. Victor is an accomplished editor who helped launch Philly.com’s hyperlocal site and he currently […]

Ford VP to deliver this year’s BlogWorld & New Media Expo keynote

Ford VP to deliver this year’s BlogWorld & New Media Expo keynote

BlogWorld definitely isn’t above trying new and different things and this year’s Expo is no different as they just announced that Jim Farley, Ford Group Vice President, will be delivering this year’s keynote. Farley is vice president for global marketing, […]

Print and online news – is like – Coke and Sprite .. different animals

Print and online news – is like – Coke and Sprite .. different animals

I can understand, sometimes, the reluctance of old media to jump into the new media world with both feet but sometimes you come across statements that make you wonder if some of these old media dinosaurs even have a clue. […]