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Bloomberg Blog: Introducing Bloomberg Queue

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"The way this new feature works is simple. You see a story you want to read, but you don't have time right then. Add it to your queue (using the + sign), and read it later. Or, if you've read a story and want to save it, you can do that too and "star" it, or search within your queue for it."

We'll also suggest stories you might find interesting based on what you've already added to your queue.

FT.com: Bloomberg launches $2,000 newsletters

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"A daily economics newsletter and three weekly titles covering hedge funds, mergers and structured notes have been available for free to customers of the Bloomberg Professional terminal service since June, and have amassed 35,000 subscribers. ... The Bloomberg Brief newsletters will be sent digitally, as PDF files to be read on a computer screen or tablet computer, or text files accessible from a BlackBerry or other smartphone."

New York Times: At Bloomberg L.P., a Modest Strategy to Rule the World

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"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: @ FT Digital Media: Newspapers’ Digital Biz Models: Guardian, FT, Bloomberg

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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

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"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"

Washington Post: 2002′s News, Yesterday’s Sell-Off

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"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

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"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. "