Morning Links: November 20, 2008
— Upmarket-aggregator smackdown: Tina Brown points out she pays her writers — a not very subtle point on rival/buddy Arianna Huffington’s HuffPo, which doesn’t. — LA Times online guru Eric Ulken goes...
View ArticleWhy The Boston Globe missed the nanostory with Mitt Romney’s dog
I’m reliably informed that the current issue of Vanity Fair contains a lengthy, engaging, and revealing profile of Sarah Palin, full of unflattering details like an email she wrote to friends and...
View ArticleWhat impact is SEO having on journalists? Reports from the field
Last week, I wrote that SEO and audience metrics, when used well, can actually make journalism stronger. But I got pushback from journalists who complained that I was parroting back management views...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: A surprisingly sensible move online, two ugly falls, and...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week's top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] Another old-media stalwart goes online: This week’s biggest story...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of replacement journalism
[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] Finally, we’re seeing...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Hard news’ online value, a small but successful paywall,...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week's top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] The value of hard news online: Perfect Market, a company that...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: The future of NewsBeast, Facebook Messages, and Yahoo...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week's top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] An unpopular marriage: As I briefly noted in last week’s review,...
View ArticleMartin Langeveld: Predicting more digital convergence and an AP...
Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2010 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. As we draw to a close, it’s time for this year’s predictions from Martin...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of Yahoo Livestand
Those Pew research numbers — 11 percent of U.S. adults owning a tablet, tablet news-reading numbers off the charts — make everybody even hungrier. Yahoo is the latest to try to get in on the growing...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Google and the social search wars, and the Post’s...
Social search and competition: Google made a major move toward unifying search and social networks (particularly its own) this week by fusing Google+ into its search and deepening its search...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: The new iPad mini and Surface tablets, and a BBC scandal...
Two entrants into the tablet market: We got a first look this week at two new devices that should play a big role in shaping the tablet market going forward. The first, the iPad mini, was unveiled at...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: A red flag for media regulation, and are news paywalls...
A warning about press regulation’s downside: We’re now two weeks removed from Lord Justice Leveson issuing his report calling for a new regulatory body for the British press, and at this point, we’re...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Andrew Sullivan’s bold paid-content plan, and Al...
Note: This week’s review covers about two weeks, looking at everything you might have missed going back to Christmas. A bellwether for blog paywalls?: Legendary blogger Andrew Sullivan joined the...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of the digital-only paywall parade
Folly. Gigantic mistake. Rearview-mirror strategy. Paywalls have taken their share of abuse since The New York Times reopened the digital circulation debate three years ago. But in those three years,...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Fuzzy math at newspapers, and more opposition to Kochs’...
Newspapers’ digital subscriptions jump: Newspapers’ biannual circulation reports came out this week, and there were a couple of ways to read them. The New York Times went the glass-half-full route,...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Howard Kurtz goes under the microscope, and Politico’s...
Kurtz’s rare accountability: Media critic Howard Kurtz’s status was pretty well settled by the end of last week after his disastrously erroneous column earlier in the week — he was fired by The Daily...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Debating journalists’ role in DOJ seizures, and Facebook...
Blame for both the DOJ and journalists: The story of the U.S. Department of Justice’s seizure of news organizations’ phone and email records moved into “who knew what and when” stage, especially...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of the Kochs rising — and uprising
It’s official. Charles and David Koch think Warren Buffett may be right. After only sideways confirmation of their interest in buying the Tribune papers, Charles Koch on Wednesday explained the...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of the Kochs: The impact on the L.A. news landscape
For more background on a potential Koch purchase of Tribune Company newspapers, see Part 1 of this piece. Let’s say that Charles and David Koch are successful in their now-announced quest (“The...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Encryption and censorship, and broadening the story of...
Encryption, surveillance, and academic freedom: There were a number of developments on the U.S. National Security Agency surveillance front this week, including reports on the NSA’s ability to grab...
View ArticleHow 10 news organizations look at issues of online engagement
How do you measure success in the digital sphere? How should news organizations interact with their audience? What’s the best way to personalize content for individual users? These were among the...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of mixing old and new
Each morning, 135,000 people get Wall Street Journal editor Gerry Baker’s The 10 Point, his one-year-old touts email on the best of the Journal that day. Around the same hour, 600,000 people get The...
View Article“Modern” homepage design increases pageviews and reader comprehension, study...
News sites with modular, image-heavy designs receive more pageviews and have stronger user engagement than sites with more staid, newspaper-inspired designs, according to a report released Tuesday by...
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