Journalism.co.uk: Guardian launches WordPress plugin allowing bloggers to republish its content
Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 10:18
"The Guardian has launched a new tool to allow bloggers to republish its articles free of charge. The Guardian News Feed plugin works with blogging system WordPress and will allow users to search for and embed whole Guardian articles on their own sites. Adverts will be embedded within the Guardian blog posts hosted on other sites to build a global ad network."
Nicholas Carr: The writing is on the paywall
Monday, 9 March 2009, 18:19
Missed this, from February 10: "The essential problem with the newspaper business today is that it is suffering from a huge imbalance between supply and demand. What the Internet has done is broken the geographical constraints on news distribution and flooded the market with stories, with product. Supply so far exceeds demand that the price of the news has dropped to zero. … [The] solution to [newspapers'] dilemma actually lies on the production side: particularly, the radical consolidation and radical reduction of capacity. The number of U.S. newspapers is going to collapse."
Editor & Publisher: CNN Courts Newspapers With New Wire Service
Saturday, 1 November 2008, 11:16
"CNN is courting newspapers — and possibly competing with The Associated Press — with a new wire service the cable network plans to launch soon, with plans for an all-expenses-paid, three-day summit in December to show off its news gathering capabilities."
Editor & Publisher: Newspapers in Northeast Pursue a Content-Sharing ‘Consortium’
Saturday, 1 November 2008, 10:26
"Top executives and editors from several major dailies in the Northeast, dissatisfied with The Associated Press, met recently to discuss the formation of a content-sharing agreement that in several cases would serve in place of their AP agreements, E&P has learned from top executives at three of the papers."
Saturday, 12 April 2008, 07:49
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"The Associated Press has launched a new syndication feature for members of its Online Video Network (OVN), enabling uploaded video to be shared with the rest of the network."
