The Observer: Andrew Clark meets a publisher who’s charging for online news
Monday, 24 August 2009, 11:03
"Walter Hussman of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette … has charged for access to its website since 2002. It imposes a $5.95 (£3.60) monthly "fee wall" on its digital content – not, Hussman stresses, to make money online, but simply to protect its sales on newsstands. … Hussman has bucked industry practice in another way: classified ads in his paper are free, so long as they are placed by individuals and not companies. That has spiked the guns of listings websites such as Craigslist, which has a lower penetration in Little Rock than in comparable US cities."
The Economist: Local newspapers in peril: The town without news
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 07:53
"An advertising slump has hit local newspapers much harder than national papers or other media (see chart). The growing reach of national brands like Rightmove and Auto Trader means that local papers have lost their grip on property and car advertising. Most painful has been the disappearance of job ads. Public-sector recruitment has shifted mostly to official websites in the past few years, and recession has eroded the rest. In July 1999 an edition of the Echo carried 17 pages of job advertisements. The final issue had one-fifth of one page."
Salt Lake Tribune: Newspaper agency’s discount brokerage riles Realtors
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 07:40
"MediaOne of Utah, which handles publishing and noneditorial duties for The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News , has created a real estate brokerage designed to compete against traditional full-price firms — and it's causing a stir. … starting a brokerage puts MediaOne in the position of competing against their realty customers"
SearchEngineLand: Land Grab: Google Expands Real Estate Listings
Monday, 6 July 2009, 21:48
"… newspapers and other classified ad providers … please meet your new neighbor: Google.com. Google has expanded its real estate listings and added extra search functionality for users to find property listings in Google Maps."
MediaGuardian.co.uk: Big newspaper websites ‘erode value of news’, says Sly Bailey
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 08:18
Trinity Mirror chief exec Sly Bailey: "By creating gargantuan national newspaper websites designed to harness users by the tens of millions, by performing well on search engines like Google, we have eroded the value of news … News has become ubiquitous. Completely commoditised. Without value to anyone. Other than us as publishers, because we pay for it."
Currybetdotnet: 6 other things newspapers could stop doing for a day to prove their “unique” value
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 19:32
Martin Belam picks apart Cale Cowan's suggestion that "All newspapers in the world need to shut down their websites, if just for a day, to demonstrate that it is the fourth estate that actually provides 90% of the news on the Internet" by showing how many of newspapers' other social functions and sources of value are being eaten away by superior services online…
Sunday, 16 September 2007, 13:14
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"… in Britain … [Jim] Buckmaster is preparing to relaunch the English version of Craigslist. … Craigslist has yet to make a big impact in Britain – hence the relaunch plans."
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 22:24
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"The UK’s local newspaper industry lost about £225m in revenue last year as regional publishers invested heavily online but failed to counter declining circulation and advertising revenue in print"
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 23:28
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"Newspaper Web sites might reap the most from local advertisers spending online but a new study reveals online newspapers are losing share."
Friday, 11 May 2007, 22:54
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Scott Karp: "If I were a newspaper exec, I’d thinking long and hard about how to create a social network around the one element that newspapers still have claim to — locality. People who live in a city or town have an instant connection."
Saturday, 21 April 2007, 13:33
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"U.S. newspaper publishers are betting the Internet is the key to their survival, but a worsening classified advertising slump is hampering efforts to make good on their digital strategies."
Saturday, 21 April 2007, 13:33
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"U.S. newspaper publishers are betting the Internet is the key to their survival, but a worsening classified advertising slump is hampering efforts to make good on their digital strategies."
