New York Times: At Bloomberg L.P., a Modest Strategy to Rule the World
Sunday, 15 November 2009, 12:32
"Bloomberg may lack the pedigree and gloss of some of its rivals, but it has one thing they don’t right now: money to throw around. This year alone, Bloomberg, deploying the cash spouting from its data business, has recruited refugees from The Wall Street Journal and Fortune and opened bureaus in places like Ecuador and Abu Dhabi. Its editorial staff (which includes radio, TV and Web site workers) now numbers 2,200, compared with 1,250 journalists at The [New York] Times and 1,900 at Dow Jones"
paidContent:UK: Bloomberg.com May Charge Up To $1,000 A Year For News Feeds
Friday, 6 November 2009, 17:50
"[Having] signaled that its newly acquired Businessweek.com may raise the paywall for certain types of content, Bloomberg is now considering charging Bloomberg.com users up to $1,000 a year to access certain areas of the site starting next year."
FT.com: Thomson Reuters / Bloomberg
Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 06:51
"Anyone who thinks the news business is dead should look at the wire services. …"
paidContent:UK: @ FT Digital Media: Newspapers’ Digital Biz Models: Guardian, FT, Bloomberg
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 07:21
One of the things US paywall advocates forget: "One thing [Guardian News & Media MD] Tim Brooks wants is for the New York Times to put its content behind a pay wall. That would allow GNM to achieve its goal of becoming the “world’s leading liberal voice', in other words, the most-read centre-left media outlet, within a year."
The Economist: Why news agencies are thriving
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 08:27
"A few struggling newspaper groups have stopped subscribing to newswires. Many others, having cut their own newsrooms, have become more dependent than ever on regurgitating agency copy. The proliferation of news websites, hungry for content, but lacking staff to produce it themselves, has also boosted the agencies"
CNET News.com: Images: Top Web news gaffes
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 10:22
… including recent online news goofs like the undated story about United Airlines' (2002) bankruptcy, the Steve Jobs obituary, and the LA Times calling Hillary as Obama's VP. Oops.
Washington Post: 2002’s News, Yesterday’s Sell-Off
Friday, 12 September 2008, 07:20
"The light-speed wipeout is a powerful reminder of how quickly bad information can spread via the Internet to a trigger-happy Wall Street that is willing to dump millions in stock before checking the facts. It exposed how Bloomberg's influential brand name is vulnerable to bogus content — the old article was posted to a Bloomberg subscription service by a Florida investment adviser, one of Bloomberg's many "third-party content-providers."
Forbes.com: How A Botched Web Story Wiped Out UAL’s Shares
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 07:05
"It was unclear whether the old story appeared on the front of the Tribune's site, as some initial reports indicated. Tribune says it did not. Regardless, investors who found the story would have a hard time knowing it was six years old. No date of original publication is listed on the story page on either chicagotribune.com or sunsentinel.com. The only date on the pages was today's: Sept. 8, 2008. "
Sunday, 4 May 2008, 08:13
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Profile of the new Thomson Reuters: "Devin Wenig … who will run Reuters, shrugs off Bloomberg as yesterday’s story. His real worries: Google (GOOG) or ’some kid in Silicon Valley.""
Friday, 19 October 2007, 17:53
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PC Magazine has a slideshow of websites that are disaggregating the bundle of news that US metropolitan dailies used to provide. The situation’s a bit different in the UK, but it’s worth looking at.
