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Yichen Zhu

Online: The Future of Newspapers - 0 views

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    Online: The Future of Newspapers? Germany's dailies in the World Wide Web
Suzanne Cardwell

Will Newspapers Ever Turn A Profit Online? | newmatilda.com - 0 views

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    Everybody's talking about content monetisation. David Howe looks at two proposals on the table from Google and Microsoft
yunju wang

A New Horizon for the News - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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  • Still, the Times seems likely to attract many readers even after it begins charging for content.
  • Last year, circulation dropped on average by 4.6 percent on weekdays and 4.8 percent on Sundays. Earlier this year, Detroit's two daily papers reduced home delivery to three days a week, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ended its print edition, and the Rocky Mountain News shut down altogether. This summer, The Boston Globe, which is losing more than $50 million a year, survived only by giving in to the draconian cutbacks demanded by its owner, the New York Times Company, while the Times itself, weighed down by the Globe, had to take out a $250 million loan from Carlos Slim Helú, Mexico's richest man, at a junk-bond-level interest rate of 14 percent a year.
  • The traditional three staples of newspaper advertising—automotive, employment, and real estate—have all drastically declined, thanks to Craigslist, eBay, the travails of Detroit, and the consolidation of department stores (resulting in fewer retail ad pages). Meanwhile, the steady expansion of space on the Internet has caused online ad rates to crash, and these are not expected to recover even when the economy as a whole does.
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  • When it comes to mismanagement, then, the newspaper business seems in a class with Detroit. Unlike GM, though, newspapers offer a product that consumers still value. But how to cash in on it? As the old business models fade, new ones are urgently being tested. Surveying the blackened landscape, I searched for new buds—and stumbled upon something much larger.
  • it seems overwhelmed by gadgets and gizmos, features and fluff. Technologically in a class by itself, the paper has seemed less adept at grasping the Web's potential to spotlight issues and stir debate. This summer, for instance, the blogosphere lit up over "The Great American Bubble Machine," Matt Taibbi's provocative Rolling Stone article about the political and financial power of Goldman Sachs.
  • building sufficient Web traffic to attract advertisers.
Yichen Zhu

Kirkville » Why Haven't Online Newspapers Gotten it Right? - 0 views

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    Kirk McElhearn is a freelance writer, specializing in Macs, the iPod, iTunes, digital music and more. In addition to having written or co-written a dozen books, he is a Senior Contributor to Macworld magazine, and contributes to several other web sites and magazines. He reviews classical CDs for MusicWeb and audiobooks for Audiofile, and is a translator from French to English.
Huang Jing

* News * Media * Charging for content More than two-thirds of online publisher... - 1 views

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    AOP survey shows about 70% of digital publishers in the newspaper, magazine and TV industries will charge for content online, it also illustrates that more than half of media firms use Twitter to publish content
HUANHUAN XU

The death of a gatekeeper - 1 views

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    Open-source softwares and social networking allow anyone anywhere to share and create contents online. People on longer need printed press such as newspaper, magazine as the cultural gatekeeper.
Huang Jing

Small Newspapers Aiming to Go Online - 1 views

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    Digital publishing company Pressmart Media is launching ePortal, a hosted service which includes tools for content and interface management that will allow publications to post and update a variety of content to a domain of their choice.
Huang Jing

Will E-readers Help Save the Newspaper Industry? - 0 views

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    "E-readers will save the publishing industry. E-readers will become the mobile equivalent to the eight track tape."
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    most publishers are looking at E-readers as simply a fourth platform for delivering content-besides print, Web and mobile.
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