OJR: Painting with the palette of the Web: a pointillistic approach to storytelling

Posted on 3 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Former multimedia war correspondent and Yahoo! newsman Kevin Sites talks about how online media pick up where traditional media leaves off."

Forbes.com: The Big News About Yahoo!

Posted on 8 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Over the past two years, Yahoo! has quietly solidified its position as the No. 1 provider of general, financial and sports news on the Internet."

CNET News.com: Tech news blog: What is news to John Q. Public?

Posted on 12 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

The Project for Excellence in Journalism has compared 48 news sites with social news aggregators Digg, Reddit and del.icio.us. The study also compared the items selected for Yahoo News and user-driven pages.

Insider Chatter by Donna Bogatin: What Google News? AP: Google Plays Second Fiddle to Yahoo

Posted on 2 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Yet again, an important reminder: Google News is a much smaller wire-service aggregating operation than Yahoo News. And MSN. And AOL.

Publishing 2.0: Memo to Google: Buy Yahoo!

Posted on 21 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Why should Google buy Yahoo? With the exception of search, Yahoo’s strengths map to Google’s weaknesses, almost precisely.

BBC iPlayer launch date set

Posted on 27 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

The BBC’s much-delayed on-demand broadband service is to launch on 27 July, the Corporation announced this morning. The iPlayer software, which is currently being beta-tested by 15,000 people, will be available for download from the BBC site, and will allow UK-based viewers to download a programme. Once downloadeed, they will be available to watch for up [...]

US AOL news site gets 2.0 makeover

Posted on 26 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

AOL is rebuilding its US news site in a blog-style format, Reuters reports. A look at the public beta

Brand Republic: Yahoo! acquires sports news website Rivals.com

Posted on 21 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Yahoo! has acquired US-based college and high school sports website Rivals for an undisclosed sum, to boost its sports publishing and online communities business."

Publishing 2.0: Newspapers Should Embrace Online Aggregators

Posted on 20 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Scott Karp: "The problem that newspapers and other traditional media brands have is that they still see branding as a function of controlling the distribution channel, rather than branding each unit of content that must now live and survive on its own"

NMA: News Corp uses MySpace to haggle with Yahoo!

Posted on 20 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"News Corporation is considering selling MySpace to Yahoo! in return for a stake in the company, according to reports."

Yahoo! Europe news director to step down

Posted on 12 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Yahoo! Europe’s Director of News, Sport and Information Lloyd Shepherd is leaving the post at the end of this month to go freelance. Shepherd revealed his decision on his blog, Dadblog, explaining that the move was for personal reasons. “I hope to do some freelancing (including at Y!), some consultancy and am even planning to launch a [...]

Followthemedia: The Journalist Whom Yahoo Identified to Chinese Authorities And Now Languishes in Jail Serving 10-Years Wins WAN’s Golden Pen of Freedom

Posted on 5 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

The Shi Tao has won WAN's Golden Pen of Freedom award

Publishing 2.0: Should Google Subsidize Journalism? »

Posted on 30 May, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Scott Karp: "[I]it’s not Google’s fault that the web destroyed the newspaper business, which in turn destroyed journalism’s source of subsidization."

Hitwise UK: Where to from Google News

Posted on 29 May, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Two weeks ago, Google News fell behind Digg.com in share of UK visits to News and Media websites ... [but] Google News UK refered five times more traffic to News and Media websites than Yahoo! UK & Ireland News."

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