Category Archives: syndication

Journalism.co.uk: Guardian launches WordPress plugin allowing bloggers to republish its content

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"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

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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: Newspapers in Northeast Pursue a Content-Sharing ‘Consortium’

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"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."