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March 27 2010
Independent: Murdoch launches the debate: will we pay for news on the net?
"Times Online has a unique monthly audience slightly in excess of 20 million. But during a Q&A with readers yesterday, James Harding, editor of The Times, described such users as mere "window shoppers". He said: 'Clearly, we are going to lose a lot of passing traffic. We have, like a few other national newspapers, tens of millions of unique users a month. But they are not regular readers. They are more like window shoppers.'"
March 26 2010
Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard: For the media biz, iPad 2010 = CDROM 1994
Scott Rosenberg: "It’s no mystery why so many publishing companies are revved up about the iPad: they’re hoping the new gizmo will turn back the clock on their business model, allowing them to make consumers pay while delivering their eyeballs directly to advertisers via costly, eye-catching displays."
Times Online: The Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June (includes video)
James Harding, editor of The Times, said: "Our new website ... will make the most of moving images, dynamic infographics, interactive comment and personalised news feeds. The coming editions of The Times on phones, e-readers, tablets and mobile devices will tell the most important and interesting stories in the newest ways.”
Wired.co.uk: Why Lebedev’s Indy should go digital
Peter Kirwan: "at the Independent ... Print-based ad sales have plummeted. So going digital would incur less of a blow to revenues than previously. Meanwhile, of course, the cost of printing and distributing copies looms ever larger in relative terms. ... The cost base of a digital-only Independent could shrink by half, to £30m or £40m. As for revenues, a decent digital sales operation working on behalf of a broadsheet newspaper can hope to bring in £20m-£30m a year. The online display market is returning to growth. In the not-too-distant future, a digital-only Independent could hope to break even."
BBC News: Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June
"The Times and Sunday Times newspapers will start charging to access their websites in June ... Users will pay £1 for a day's access and £2 for a week's subscription. ... Both titles will launch new websites in early May, separating their digital presence for the first time and replacing the existing, combined site, Times Online. "
March 25 2010
Advertising Age: Print Vets Looking to Go Digital Find Switch Difficult
"Whether motivated by personal choice or downsizing at their employers, the switch to digital offered many print veterans footholds in a growing young sector and the chance to learn new skills. But it is becoming increasingly difficult for even seasoned professionals to segue from print to digital."
WSJ.com: Advertisers Gather Around as Publishers Tout Bells and Whistles of Apple’s iPad
"Time magazine has signed up Unilever, Toyota Motor , Fidelity Investments and at least three others for marketing agreements priced at about $200,000 apiece for a single ad spot in each of the first eight issues of the magazine's iPad edition, according to people familiar with the matter."
March 24 2010
Mashable: The Future Newsroom: Lean, Open, and Social Media-Savvy
Mashable looks at the different working practices at the long-established Penn State student newspaper and its upstart rival blog: "the old/new media rivalry might not be generational, but ideological. What follows is a practical look at the successful social media strategies of Onward State, and a comparison of the world views of two camps of student journalists and their professional counterparts — a comparison that portends a long war to come."
March 23 2010
PBS MediaShift Idea Lab: Resurrecting Unstructured Data to Help Small Newspapers
"At best, a selection of [a newspaper's text] files are copy and pasted into a content management system for ublication online. But this process seldom happens until after the newspaper's print edition has been completed. At this point the newspaper has little incentive to process these files further, as attention must now be focused on the next day's edition. This reality helps illustrate the potential for the CMS Upload Utility, my Knight News Challenge project. It's an inexpensive way to move text files into a web-accessible database."
Guardian: Grazia publishes 3D issue
"The 'walk-in, talking Grazia' will feature augmented reality (AR) codes throughout the issue, activated by holding the magazine up to a webcam or iPhone. ... it will offer readers a 360- degree view of the latest spring fashion trends ... "
John Nack on Adobe: A tablet demo too far
John Nack talks sense on overproduced iPad magazine demos: "Sure, hardware's better and the delivery pipe is fatter, but the cost of producing something visually beautiful & creative remains (and will remain) much higher than shoving text into a template. When moving content online, publishers often trade dollars for pennies, and even high profile sites grind out content for a pittance ... "
ReadWriteWeb: First Looks: Magazines on the iPad
"For publishers big and small who, for whatever reason, can't or don't want to build their own iPad or tablet application in-house, digital magazine distributor Zinio will be introducing an iPad application which provides readers with easy access to digital subscriptions and an online 'newsstand.""
March 22 2010
paidContent: Paywall On-Ramps Get A Workaround
"Web developers have made BreakThePayWall, a browser extension that helps users overcome part of news publishers’ subscription strategy. .... BreakThePayWall works mainly - and merely - by deleting cookies sites use to limit the number of stories users can read before having to subscribe."
March 21 2010
Mathew Ingram: Anonymous Comments: Are They Good or Evil?
"I think that persistent (and quasi-verified) identity agents like Facebook Connect and OpenID can help with some of the problems that online comments have — not necessarily “real” identity so much as persistent identity. It’s not really important that I know who Shelley456 is when she comments, but if she is Shelley456 everywhere she comments, then she has devoted some time (theoretically) to establishing that identity, and therefore will be less likely to destroy it by spewing Nazi hate in some online comment board."
March 20 2010
Search Engine Land: Stat Rant: Does Facebook Trumps Google For News & Can’t We Measure Twitter Correctly?
Danny Sullivan: "Earlier this week, Hitwise put out stats suggesting that Facebook is beating Google and Twitter when it comes to driving traffic to news sites. I dug a little deeper, and I beg to differ."
Search Engine Watch: One Man’s Keywords are Another Man’s List of Forbidden ‘Newsspeak’ Words and Phrases
"No journalist will respond well to being handed a list of search terms to use or a list of trite clichés to avoid using. That's why it is important to teach journalists how to do keyword research themselves, so they get to decide which words and phrases are relevant and important to their story..."
Fast Company: Hot off the Presses: The Newspaper Club Produces–and Prints–a Newspaper at SXSW
"The 1000 pieces (three long pages folded, in color) were printed last night at the Austin-American Statesman's press, just across the river from the convention center where SXSW was held. 'We have broken your business,' was the message from digital to print media at today's launch. 'Now we want your machines.'"
guardian.co.uk: How will print content look on the iPad?
All of the prototype videos imagining expensively overproduced iPad consumer magazines, collected in one place.
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