A new study carried out by the Boston Consulting Group has found that 48 percent of regular internet users in the United States would be prepared to pay for their online news; a considerably lower figure than many other Western countries, the New York Times has [...] msnbc.com, which had the first embeddable video player among the major video producers in the United States, will soon launch a player which provides embed codes for specific segments.
The new player will also be resizable and will carry forms of advertising, deemed acceptable on off domain sites, meaning no pre-roll [...]
NBC Sports will announce plans today to use Microsoft Silverlight as the software for Web viewing the Winter Olympics Games in the United States.
We have been impressed with the latest use of Silverlight by NBC for Sunday Night Football. We look forward to watching the Olympics online. Although, [...]
I often point out that the New York Times is in a very different business than the typical local/regional daily newspaper in the United States.
But listening to Bill Keller tell the NYT Digital crew his list of seven "questions that loom largest to us at the moment," I'm' [...]
Today, a roundup of some graphs related to yesterday’s release of newspaper circulation numbers in the United States.
Warning, these graphs may disturb anyone who believes printed news isn’t fading fast. Discretion is advised.
How much has newspaper household penetration [...]Americans overwhelmingly have a lack of interest in cloud-based services, according to a new survey"Asked what they felt about personal data being stored on third-parties’ remote computers, 64% say they don’t want their data kept by a third party, according to the latest installment of 'Unisys Security Index: United States.''"I' [...]
Next month, newspapers all over the United States will begin sharing sports stories online and in print as part of an initiative that sprung from the Associated Press Sports Editors. Then, early next year, the Washington Post and Bloomberg will unveil a new co-branded business section on [...]
"The Reconstruction of American Journalism" is a 100-page
report on the state of journalism in the United States. Written by Leonard
Downie, the VP of The Washington Post, and Michael Schudson, a professor at
Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, it describes changes in the news
media industry (i.e. the 'happening' [...] Today in the United States, there is no legislation that allows bloggers to protect their sources. Yet bloggers have become a great way for the public -- and journalists in particular -- to keep informed about important topics. A survey from Middleberg Communications and the Society for [...]
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has an excellent Earthquake Center for all the earthquakes in the world, which is very handy at a time when many are happening at once, followed in some cases by tsunamis that cross seas to strike coastlines minutes [...]
