E-Media Tidbits

• Price Tag for WSJ.com in Microsoft-Murdoch Deal Could be $8 Million Annually

  Everyone and their uncle, it seems, is weighing in on News Corp.'s reported talks with Microsoft to block Google from searching its sites and give the privilege to Microsoft's Bing' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  

• Knight News Challenge Reaches Out to Tech, Business Communities with Extended Deadline

  With two weeks left in an unexpectedly late deadline, the 2010 Knight News Challenge is still looking for a few (thousand) good ideas to help save journalism.

  The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, sponsor of the 5-year contest which awards up to [...]

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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:56am EST
  

• Power Struggles over Converged Newsrooms May Diminish Value of Web Sites

  When I heard that The Washington Post had let go two well-known video journalists, Steve Yelvington's tweet summed up my initial reaction: "WP online layoffs are sad and self-defeating, a step backward as printies seize power."

  While the Post isn't officially talking about individuals affected, I've confirmed that Travis' [...]

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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:10pm EST
  

• News Orgs Starting to Compete More with Marketers for Dollars, Audiences

  In marketing, executives talk of spending "above the line" and "below the line." Above the line is traditional advertising -- ads placed in publications and on TV, radio, Web sites and the like. Below the line relates to other ways that a product, brand or company message might reach a [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:27pm EST
  

• How Demand Media's Business Model Can be Applied to Niche Sites

  Demand Media has advertising-driven content down to a science. Instead of creating content for the Web and hoping that it generates revenue, the company works backwards by determining how much revenue each piece will generate before anything is produced.
  
  The company uses a series of algorithms to pick through keywords [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:57am EST
  

• Testing CUNY's New Business Models with Adjusted Assumptions

  Amid the rhetoric over how to support the business of journalism, the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism has taken a plunge by creating models of what a news network on the Web might look like with hard, if optimistic, numbers.
  
  Broad and multi-tiered spreadsheets filled' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:29am EST
  

• Don't Give Up on Online Video Yet

  Poor video. For a while, he was the hot boyfriend of the online world. His buddy, pre-roll advertising, was touted as the way to save the industry. Now, like a guy who dumped us, people are trashing-talking video content on news sites and telling all their girlfriends that [...]

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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:34am EST
  

• CUNY Conference Shows Journalists Must Understand Business

  What a chasm to overcome. One journalist tweeted that the financial spreadsheets being shown were overwhelming, that "I don't do numbers." Someone else in the room quipped that business isn't as much fun as journalism. A third admitted, while watching a spreadsheet presentation, that he didn't' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:02am EST
  

• Google Latitude Adds Features with Potential for Journalists

  Google Latitude, a service that works with your mobile phone to enable people to see where you are, has launched 2 new services with interesting potential for mobile journalism: Location History and Location Alerts.
  
  
  
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:14pm EST
  

• News Sites Must Use Alerts and Tools to Help Readers Find Content

  I used to cover tennis, was in the stands as Andre Agassi teared up after his final tennis match as a pro, and can be a bit of a fanatic about the sport. So when I learned recently that The Times newspaper in the U.K. was going to carry excerpts [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:24am EST
  

• Fort Hood Shooting Shows How Twitter, Lists Can be Used for Breaking News

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  "Covering the Fort Hood Shootings, A Day Later," Al Tompkins  Days after Twitter Lists were introduced to the public, the shootings [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  

• New Hampshire Suit Challenges Mortgage Blogger's Use of Anonymous Sources

  The New Hampshire Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that calls into question the legal protections available to independent Web sites that cover news.
  
  The case involves mortgage lender Implode-Explode, a Las Vegas-based site launched in 2007 that publishes stories about the meltdown of the mortgage industry. The [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:30pm EST
  

• How The New York Times, Others Are Experimenting with Augmented Reality

  Journalists and publishers are exploring ways to use the emerging technology known as Augmented Reality in their work.
  
  Augmented Reality, or AR, is "layering digital information onto the physical world," in the words of New York Times Creative Technologist Michael Young. The most common AR apps today live on "smart" handheld [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:15pm EST
  

• New Google Analytics Tools Make it Easier for News Orgs to Track Metrics

  Just in time for the holidays, Google has announced some potentially valuable new additions to its free Web metrics suite, Google Analytics.
  
  Among the highlights: better metrics from mobile devices, more flexible goal setting and tracking, automated and custom metric alerts and more precise tracking of individual visitor behavior.
  
  The new [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:05pm EST