Archive for category: MSM

Leaked AP memo tells employees that they must beat blogs

Leaked AP memo tells employees that they must beat blogs

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 […]

Chicago Sun-Times Latest Regional Paper to Adopt NYT-Style Paywall

Chicago Sun-Times Latest Regional Paper to Adopt NYT-Style Paywall

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. […]

Bloggers Not Journalists, Judge Finds, Implications Rock Blogosphere

Bloggers Not Journalists, Judge Finds, Implications Rock Blogosphere

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’s ‘Newsday’ to Bring on 25 Digital Staffers, Add iPad and Android Apps

Long Island’s ‘Newsday’ to Bring on 25 Digital Staffers, Add iPad and Android Apps

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 […]

New York Times Adds Gawker-Like Commenting Section

New York Times Adds Gawker-Like Commenting Section

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 […]

Playboy By Far and Away Most Liked Mag on Facebook

Playboy By Far and Away Most Liked Mag on Facebook

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 […]

Amazon, Time Inc. Ink Deal to Bring Mags to Kindle Fire

Amazon, Time Inc. Ink Deal to Bring Mags to Kindle Fire

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 […]

Condé Nast Launching All Titles on Nook Tablet

Condé Nast Launching All Titles on Nook Tablet

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 […]

New York Times Launches Fashion/Style App ‘The Collection’

New York Times Launches Fashion/Style App ‘The Collection’

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, […]

CNN.com Eyes Yahoo, Not Fox or MSNBC, as Big Competitor

CNN.com Eyes Yahoo, Not Fox or MSNBC, as Big Competitor

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 […]

MSM’s Twitter Usage Mostly One Way, Study Finds

MSM’s Twitter Usage Mostly One Way, Study Finds

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, […]

WaPo, Venture Beat Hook Up on the Web

WaPo, Venture Beat Hook Up on the Web

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 […]

Yahoo Partnership Helps ABCNews.com Numbers Soar

Yahoo Partnership Helps ABCNews.com Numbers Soar

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 […]

[Video] Martha Stewart Visits Google For Digital Media Chat

[Video] Martha Stewart Visits Google For Digital Media Chat

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 […]