Media Money: The future of newspapers: Metro with knobs on (and a hiring spree at Thomson Reuters)

Peter Kirwan on Ed Roussel's outsourcing idea: "The other question that needs to be asked here is this: what will a newspapers’ roster of 'premium' writers look like once they’re required to blog and Twitter with the rest of us. Getting the top knobs to take the web seriously and start interacting with their readers –- properly –- might be a bit of a challenge."

Thomson Reuters releases new version of semantic tagging tool

Thomson Reuters has released a new version of its semantic tagging tool Open Calais along with plugins for several blogging and content management systems. The new version of the software, which allows web publishers to automatically add metadata indicating the people, companies, places, events mentioned in their stories, was unvielled at the SemTech 2008 conference in [...]