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Smart thinking is the key to a stylish press
"Don't write off newspapers, says Tyler Brûlé, founder of 'Wallpaper' and 'Monocle'. Titles from Italy to Japan have embraced modern design to remain essential reading"
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NYTimes.Com Aggregates Third-Party Content, Marks Transformation of Media
"The New York Times joins what I expect will be a rapidly expanding list of media brands that aim to create value for their readers by aggregating the best third-party content from across the web."
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"The Onion neither publishes nor accepts letters from its readers. It is The Onion's editorial policy that the readers should have no voice whatsoever and that The Onion newspaper shall be solely a one-way conduit of information."
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"True value creation happens when everyone who has an economic interest in media is made better off. Value is not created when when value is simply transferred from readers/consumers to shareholders - as has happened here."
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Le Monde Diplomatique Redesign
By Spiekermann: "Le Monde Diplomatique appears worldwide in 20 languages and 30 countries and has more than 1.5 million readers."
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The Old Model: TimesSelect Is A Failure
"TimesSelect, the world's stupidest pay-for-content bar to a good user experience, has 222,300 paying members as of May, according to a report just released by the Times."
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Media 2.0 Intel (May 16, 2007)
National TV moving local, newspapers getting in to video and the problems with the wheel metaphor for media companies.
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Following the frogs in the pot
"Fragmentation, disintermediation, the ability to unbundle content from form, and the personal media revolution have all created an abundant, customer-in-charge world for media, one in which pure reach-frequency ad models won’t work."
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A collection of North American front pages from the day after Saddam's death.
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"Under the new model, a blogger can permanently "activate" the content, distribute it and allow the New York Times to generate ongoing ad revenue from the article."
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A Newspaper Investigates Its Future
"The [Los Angeles] Times is dedicating three investigative reporters and half a dozen editors to find ideas, at home and abroad, for re-engaging the reader, both in print and online."
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Paradigm shift: What Google didn't buy
"They could have considered buying The New York Times. But no--they didn't, did they--and the decision to spend all this money on YouTube shows that the coffin nails of mainstream media are already strewn across the open grave"
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How Did Newspapers Land in This Mess?
"The underlying theme in Tribune’s unraveling is that in a time of technological transition, the two publics that are served by many of the nation’s newspapers are no longer getting along so well."
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A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change
"A lot of the information that newspaper organizations collect is relentlessly structured. It just takes somebody to realize the structure (the easy part), and it just takes somebody to start storing it in a structured format (the hard part)."
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All the news that's fit for bits
Martin Nisenholtz is presiding over a surge in digital revenue at the old gray lady.
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The CIA-Contra-Crack Connection, 10 Years Later
"Reporter Gary Webb was the victim of his own hyperbole, but he never got credit for what he got right."
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Newspapers to Use Links to Rivals on Web Sites
Baby steps . . .
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Guardian: Print Your Own Newspaper
"G24 will be a free service featuring news content from the Guardian Unlimited website. . . Users will be able to log on to Guardian Unlimited and download an eight to 12-page A4 pdf document, which can then be printed off."
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"The time is long since past when morning newspapers can pretend they are breaking big national and international news stories. They have to remember that their readers know what has happened."
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Guardian targets American audience
"The Guardian plans to expand its print and online presence in America as part of its ambition to become the biggest liberal voice in world media."
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1/3 of referrals to washingtonpost.com from blogs
"In a signing of the growing power of blogs to drive traffic online, WashingtonPost.com Executive Editor Jim Brady says that one-third of the referrals washingtonpost.com gets now comes through blogs."
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Virtual Economics: The audience as enemy (reprise)
A message to newspapers: "If you're going to hold your paying customers in contempt at least don't stand up in a public forum and crack jokes about it."
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The clickthrough's tyrannical efficiency
"Literally. The web unbundles the bundle - each story becomes a separate entity that lives or dies, economically, on its own."
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New York Times editor briefly explains their web redesign.
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His mission: to redesign with today's readers in mind
"World-famous newspaper designer Mario Garcia embraces the challenge of blending the old with the new as he helps reinvent the Wall Street Journal."
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Behind the Eavesdropping Story, a Loud Silence
New York Times public editor Byron Calame asks some tough questions about the delay of the eavesdropping article.
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Horse sex story was online hit
The Seattle Times story about a man dying from sex with a horse was the paper's most read story in it's 109 year history.
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Jeff Jarvis writes a newspaper state of the union.
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"Why are we doing this? Because we want to foster innovation, and because we want to see your ideas about new ways of displaying news and information on the Web."
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One concerned Godmother writes a letter to the local newspapers about her Godson's possible addiction to 'camel toad.'
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The Guardian's New European Look
"It can take months before the full potential and strengths of a newspaper redesign become apparent. A paper is an instrument and its editors and designers have to learn how to play it to perfection."
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How Would You Change The 'New York Times'?
An AdAge article in which a few designers think about how to fix the New York Times
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More coverage of the Guardian's redesign
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Assessing the new Guardian, with brief nod to the avant-garde (aka Grazia, Heat and The Sun)
A very long look at the Guardian's print redesign by cityofsound
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Why Google's Print Ad Experiment is a Really Big Freakin' Deal
"Google gets to know response rate, all in one place; they can even (ready for this?) charge based on it."
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when mainstream media cite blogs
"There's something funny about watching mainstream media pick up their reporting habits from bloggers. I wonder if we get misspellings next?"
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When a Man Dies in a Sex Act with a Horse -- What's a Reporter to Do?
How a Seattle Times reporter handled a story about a man who died while having sex with a horse.
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Wired: "There will always be a market for young reporters who know how to gather facts and write them up in a clear, convincing manner."
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Is Rupert Murdoch right to predict the end of newspapers as we now know them?
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The New York Times Company Reports NYTimes.com's Record-Breaking Traffic for March
"NYTimes.com's RSS feeds generated 5.9 million pageviews on the site in March, which represents a 342% increase year over year and a 39% increase from February's 4.3 million pageviews."
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Apple bloggers get press support
Eight US newspapers and the Associated Press agency have thrown their support behind three bloggers sued by Apple.
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Chicago Sun-Times Sports Section
I need a Jay Mariotti RSS feed
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Notes from talk--The Real Deal: How Young Adults Spend Their Time Online
Susan Mernit: "from RSS and SMS to peer-to-peer file sharing, find out how newspapers can tap into the new information networks, and the audience was about 40 newspaper editors and one online news producer."
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angiemckaig.com: "Instead of implementing a business model that doesn't make sense just to protect your bottom line, why not come up with something that DOES make sense?"
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Can Papers End the Free Ride Online?
New York Times writes about newspapers deciding to charge for content online. Foreshadowing?
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All around the Net, but underused by news sites
OJR: "So far, most newspapers have done little to develop the tools required to enable interesting, broad networks needed to foster ongoing relationships with their readers."
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Daily Papers Face Unprecedented Competition . . .
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Bloggers and critics put the New York Times executive editor through it. He gives it back.
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Whither The Wall Street Journal?
What will the effects of the Wall Street Journal's subscriber only online model be?
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Reuters covers RSS and specifically the recent wave of branding newsreaders
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Looks like the Los Angeles Times is entering the RSS market with a branded aggregator
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How television killed the newspaper sports column.
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The Future Of The New York Times
Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has his hands full: Weaker earnings. A changing media world. A scandal's aftermath. He also has an ambitious business plan
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Craigslist Costs Bay Area Newspapers $50M/Year
A new study examining the impact of Craigslist
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Fairly exhaustive list of newspapers that use RSS
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Loyal newspaper readers in the US are increasingly turning to the Internet for news, shopping research and information.
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They've finally expanded their feeds
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Bush template letter being printed by newspapers across the country
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How to deal with someone stealing your sports section
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Online citizen newspaper gains poularity in Korea
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Demeaning bloggers: the NYTimes is running scared
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More reporting on newspapers adopting RSS
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Hypergene MediaBlog » Why can't a newspaper be more like a blog?
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