The LION Summit for local independent online news publishers took place in Chicago on Friday and Saturday. In two days of panels, there was plenty of focus on ad-selling strategies and other revenue-generating ideas, but one thing was large ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Media Association calls on government to implement 10 changes to corporation’s objectives and governance in submission to green paperUK national and regional newspaper publishers have called for the BBC’s digital news operation to be curbed to allow commercial players to flourish at home... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late April news was impressive and divisive: Google would spend €150 million on a new Digital News Initiative (DNI) partnership with European news publishers (“Google to launch $150 million partnership with publishers&rdquo ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
MONTREAL — If a “death of newspapers” narrative still mires the industry, then here might be a Lazarus story. It’s hard to avoid such hyperbolic comparisons when talking about La Presse, a 131-year ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook’s long-rumored plan to directly host articles from news organizations will start on Wednesday, concluding months of delicate negotiations between the Internet giant and publishers that covet its huge audience but fear its growing p ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
MPs urge public service broadcaster to back commercial press with licence fee moneyAre we about to see the BBC and the regional press, to use my colleague John Plunkett’s endearing phrase, “getting into bed with each other”?Clearly, the MPs want to see the public service broadcaster and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The clamor for native advertising budgets has led to many of the top news publishers rebranding and up-skilling. Here's how their solutions stack up. The post Inside 4 UK news publishers’ content studios appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
After attracting more than 50m monthly readers on tablets and smartphones, US startup smashes down its walled garden and hopes partners will see the potentialFlipboard came to prominence as a news-reading app for tablets and smartphones, attracting more than 50 million monthly active readers by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Axel Springer goes Anglophone to seek an international audience Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blackstar investment company wants to obtain full ownership of Times Media Group Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
At some point, we've all said no to an offer of help before realizing that some help would actually be rather useful. It's a situation that German news publisher Axel Springer has found itself in after spending months lobbying Google to stop indexing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
For companies like Google, facing problems with the law across Europe has become a common thing. The most recent example of this is now taking place in Spain, where the country's parliament just gave the go-ahead to what's being known as the "Google... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
WATERLOO REGION — The former publisher of the Elmira Independent newspaper has been forced to return to Canada and serve out the rest of his sentence after losing an appeal of his conviction for contempt of court. Bob Verdun learned this ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the early 90s people balked at the idea of reading the news on a computer, yet if you looked at online services of the day (Compuserve and AOL), user demand would say otherwise. News was consistently among the top activity. Eventually that same demand drove Web 1.0 and by the time Web 2.0... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Local TV and radio broadcasters in Amarillo, Texas, consider yourselves on notice: the Amarillo Globe-News smells blood in the water and is coming after your business. That’s because Les Simpson, publisher of the Morris Communications-own ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Traditional mainstream publishers in Spain believe they have found a way to extract payment for the appropriation of their online content.It follows the Spanish congress's passing of a law last week nicknamed tasa Google ("Google tax") which gives newspaper publishers the right to seek payment... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Journalists in Liberia believe that the arrest and detention of newspaper publisher Octavian Williams for a traffic offence was motivated by his newspaper's political coverage.Williams, who runs a tabloid in Monrovia, The Nation Times, was detained by police on 2 July and accused of driving a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
PORTLAND, Ore. – Detroit will serve as the host city for the 75th Anniversary celebration of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)–an African-American organization which focuses on supporting and advocating for publ ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Five brands that are encroaching on established publishers' turf by starting their own content sites. The post 5 brands becoming news publishers in their own right appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
After a very entertaining stunt with Jimmy Fallon, GE, an early adopter of content marketing, has been putting a focus on hard news of late. GE has used sites like The Economist and Quartz for native advertising to promote itself as a supporter of ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]