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New York Times: European Ventures Seek to Fill a News Void

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"Worldcrunch, a Web-based start-up in Paris, offers English translations of newspaper articles from around the world. Presseurop, another new site edited from Paris, does something similar for European newspapers, translating articles into 10 languages, including English. ... Using freelance journalists, Worldcrunch plans to publish several dozen English translations of articles from newspapers like Le Monde, Die Welt and La Stampa every week."

Project for Excellence in Journalism: Navigating News Online

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"the findings suggest that there is not one group of news consumers online but several, each of which behaves differently. These differences call for news organizations to develop separate strategies to serve and make money from each audience.
The findings also reveal that while search aggregators remain the most popular way users find news, the universe of referring sites is diverse. Social media is rapidly becoming a competing driver of traffic. And far from obsolete, home pages are usually the most popular page for most of the top news sites."

Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: RSS feeds beat any branded iPhone or iPad news app

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Patrick Smith: "despite their convenience, apps are a limited way of publishing information. The self-constructed, community-based, open, Google-able news eco-system gives the serious media consumer a better all-round experience than the closed off system represented by the iPad and App Store, and all it takes is a little effort to make the most of it."

Seeking Alpha: iPad and the New Five-Fingered Exercise

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"[Marc Frons], CTO of the New York Times, tells me he assesses the first rank of iPad products to be on the right-wing of publishing -- essentially re-purposed products of the existing, conservative order. In the center, the web, a hodgepodge of somewhat repurposed print, spiced with still-awkward multimedia mixings. On the left, a hazy future, as digital newsy media comes into its own, with its own look and feel."

Seeking Alpha: iPad and the New Five-Fingered Exercise

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"[Marc Frons], CTO of the New York Times, tells me he assesses the first rank of iPad products to be on the right-wing of publishing -- essentially re-purposed products of the existing, conservative order. In the center, the web, a hodgepodge of somewhat repurposed print, spiced with still-awkward multimedia mixings. On the left, a hazy future, as digital newsy media comes into its own, with its own look and feel."

Nieman Journalism Lab: The right information, the right way, at the right time

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"At 5:30 a.m., I got a text message from one of my local television stations alerting me that my kids’ school was closed because of an impending snowstorm. This was a valuable bit of information. .... This TV station gave me the specific information I wanted the way I wanted it and when I wanted it. ..."

Wired.com: Twitter URL Service Bit.ly Says No to Ads, Yes to Data-Mining News

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"[Bit.ly is] going to mine those links to create a real-time news service that would work somewhat like Twitter trends, except that it would track the hottest links rather than the most-used words. The result would be a Digg-like news service comprised of links determined to be important by bit.ly’s analysis engine."

Spiegel Online: Chris Anderson on the Economics of ‘Free’: ‘Maybe Media Will Be a Hobby Rather than a Job’

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Chris Anderson: "I read lots of articles from mainstream media but I don't go to mainstream media directly to read it. It comes to me, which is really quite common these days. More and more people are choosing social filters for their news rather than professional filters. We're tuning out television news, we're tuning out newspapers. And we still hear about the important stuff, it's just that it's not like this drumbeat of bad news. It's news that matters."

Micro Persuasion: The Amazon Kindle is the Great White Hope for Monetizing Print Media

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Unfortunately, I think Steve Rubel is wrong about this, because mobile devices will evolve into web-browsing devices: "The Kindle, like the iPod, overcomes the hurdle required to get people to pay for content. The secret sauce is easy and instantaneous delivery of content as soon as it ships. This need not be limited to daily, weekly or monthly publication schedule but also for breaking news."

Charles Arthur: Newspapers: why fungibility means they’re really really really really really REALLY screwed

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"Nick Carr sets it out very clearly: there’s an oversupply of news, and the market is correcting it ruthlessly. News is pretty much fungible (one of my favourite words - it means that if you have a pipe and stuff some of your supply in one end, what comes out at the other is indistinguishable. Sugar, oil and wheat are fungibles. And so, now, is news."