29 March 2009

"A Note to Readers" - NYTimes.com

"E.U. Warns Internet Companies on User Privacy" - NYTimes.com

Newspapers need to care a lot about this.

"Propaganda.com" - NYTimes.com

"In Europe, Possible Survival Lessons for U.S. Papers" - NYTimes.com

Maybe....

"Wikipedia - Exploring Fact City" - NYTimes.com

A critically important issue for newspapers.

"The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia"

This is the new global edition of The New York Times. I hope it succeeds, and we will know soon enough......

28 March 2009

"Facebook at 5 - Is It Growing Up Too Fast?" - NYTimes.com

Newspapers need to pay a whole lot more attention to this.

26 March 2009

"Screen Time: Study Parses How, When We Watch" - NPR

This sure has a big impact on the future of newspapers.

Will E-Book Anti-Piracy Technology Hurt Readers? : NPR

There is a lot for newspapers to learn from this.

"The Times Plans Temporary Pay Cuts and Unpaid Leave for Many Employees" - NYTimes.com

24 March 2009

"The Vietnam War, Through Eddie Adams' Lens" - NPR

Who will replace this sort of photography in a post-printed newspaper world?

"Hearst's Houston Chronicle Cutting 12 Pct of Staff" - NYTimes.com

This is a newspaper that used to be owned by a foundation and most would have thought it would survive, successfully, forever. Who would bet on that proposition today?

21 March 2009

"Wikis in Seattle and San Francisco Help Build Model for News Organizations of the Future" - Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

"About" - Providence Daily Dose

Is there a future for this?

"Meet Laura, Your Virtual Personal Assistant" - NPR

Which newspaper will be the first to offer a virtual news assistant like Laura?

12 March 2009

"For The New York Times, the digital future is now" - CNET News

"Gutenberg Is Dead; Long Live Gutenberg" - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com

"For Papers, a Downsizing Trickle Becomes a Flood" - NYTimes.com

I continue to believe that we need just one newspaper - anywhere - to demonstrate how they have responded to the information and service needs of the geographic market they seek to serve, successfully, in order to turn this around. What are the criteria? That more than 90% of the people with access to the internet in that market have subscribed to something from the newspaper in any medium with some paying for highest value offerings, and that everyone in the market is offered a free daily product that, when combined with the electronic offerings, is the most essential means by which advertisers of all kind can seek customers in that geographic market.

So far, as I sit in Chapel Hill, several newspapers have me well within that 90% group, with me paying money for some of what I receive from newspapers, but none of them has yet perfected the link between me and the mass of advertisers physically located inside and outside this geographic market whose customer I already am or whose customer they would like me to be.

I don't see any one of thes papers - from the most local to the most international - even trying to do this.

Why is this job so hard to grasp?

09 March 2009

The Bob Edwards Show - Bob Edwards Weekend

The interview about Global Post was very interesting. The founder pointed out that he is a friend of Bill O"REILLY of the O"Reilly Factor and that is why they are a co-sponsor. He said that Huffington Post approached them and they added them as well.

"Wikis in Seattle and San Francisco Help Build Model for News Organizations of the Future" - Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

""The Business of Bribes": new US investigative journalism project launched" - Editors Weblog

"McClatchy Plans to Eliminate 1, 600 Jobs" - NYTimes.com

08 March 2009

"Google branches into expandable ads" - CNET News

And which newspapers are offering this independently to advertisers?

04 March 2009

"The weekly battle" - The Boston Globe

"The Geography of a Recession" - NYTimes.com

What a superb use of technology by The New York Times.

"Newspapers: Rupert Murdoch's Magazine Disaster"

03 March 2009

"Mobile phone use passes milestone as UN report reveals global growth" - The Guardian

And the total number of daily newspaper purchasers around the world? Ok, include those who pick up a free paper, too!

"Workshop in digital journalism open to Saudi journalists" - IJNet

"CFJ to offer online course on investigative journalism in Arabic" - IJNet

"'New York Times' to Launch Local Citizen Journalism Sites"

French regional newspapers mastered this approach in print a long time ago.

"Gun Database Ignites Debate in Tennessee" - NYTimes.com

"Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Scrape Content" - NYTimes.com

"Hearst Dailies Look to Charge for Some Web"

As sound an idea as this is, it may yet be too late.

"CBS' The Early Show to Host Live Webcast"

More newspapers ought to be doing this!

"Newspaper Wars" - WSJ.com

02 March 2009

"Read for Free, Pay for Print or Stuff ' - PBS

This makes a lot of sense.

"Mediapart.fr - Abonnement au nouveau journal interactif" - Maximiles

This is such a difficult sell....

"Pearson publie des résultats 2008 meilleurs que prévu"

Some good - or at least better - news again.