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(News) Time, Time, Time: What's Become of You

Published: October 11, 2007, 9:39 pm

Tags: Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, Magazines, New York Times, News Archives Business, Syndication, Bbc History Timeline, Bbc News, Dan Gillmor, Google, Google Archive Timeline, New York Times Archives, New York Times Select, Topix, Topix Search Timeline

as much about taking other companies' best discarded ideas as inventing your own. Play with these, and you can see how the search can be magically limited. As Google marches toward $700 a share and skeptics ponder how the "next Google" will find a way to improve search, they often say that Google is too big, returning too much. But timelines

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Coming to a Site Near You: The Battle for Election Traffic

Published: October 5, 2007, 9:55 am

Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Google, Innovation, News Democracy, Weblogs, 2008 Voters Guides, Alan Mutter, Dennis Mcgrath, Google Australian Politics, Nancy Barnes, Newsosaur, Politically Connected, Star T

Summer's over, the super-primaries are threatening to consume us and that means one thing if you're a news website: better figure out a way to pull in lots of politico traffic, as sites as diverse as the brand-new Star Tribune "Politically Connected" (more below) and others are doing. My friend Alan Mutter sent a broadside flying recently with

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Shaking the Foundations, in Search of Journalism

Published: October 2, 2007, 9:23 am

Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, News Democracy, Eli Broad, Joel Kramer, Knight Foundation, L Times, Minnpost, Nelson Poynter, Sam Zell, St Petersburg Times, Tribune

light for our times. With newspaper company margins descending from the 20%+ level, such community-based, journalism-funding ideas are now becoming thinkable. And when billionaries like Eli Broad -- a potential bidder for the L.A. Times once Sam Zell closes his Tribune deal -- support that case, it only gets more interesting. Said Broad:

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Who Wants All Those Readers, Anyways?

Published: October 1, 2007, 8:12 pm

Tags: Daily Newspaper Companies, Google, Yahoo, Naa, Newspaper Circulation, Yahoo News

whether occasional, or daily or hourly visitors to Yahoo, Google and MSN are good. All need to be welcomed. I think that what's really going on is that daily newspapers -- the great mass medium of the last century -- are now becoming niche. Newspapers would deny that (witness NAA's marketing programs emphasizing total (print + online)

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Belo Buys Some Time for Its Papers

Published: October 1, 2007, 1:36 pm

Tags: Daily Newspaper Companies, H Belo, Belo, Bruce Sherman, Dallas Morning News, Gannett, Media General, Mochila, Paul Tash, Pcm, Robert Decherd, Scripps, St Petersburg Times, Worldnow, Yahoo Newspaper Consortium

think of companies like Belo, Gannett, Scripps and others as newspaper companies. Sure, they grew out of ink and pulp, but many have become hybrids over the years, mostly in acquiring broadcast TV stations. The names are newspaper names, but the companies are no longer newspaper companies. So Belo's announcement this a.m. that it is breaking

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Times Select Cancellation Leaves NYT "Balancing" on One-Legged Stool

Published: September 18, 2007, 2:01 pm

Tags: Advertising, Daily Newspaper Companies, New York Times, Weblogs, Factiva, Frank Rich, Lexisnexis, Murdoch, Times Select, Times Tracker

for years now, but many news companies continue to underperform web companies in sheer execution. The stealth problem created I believe though is around print subscriptions and print circulation revenue. Of those 787,000 Times Select customers, almost a half million -- 471,000 -- are print subscribers who've gotten TS for "free."

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In Real Estate Sell-Off, Newspaper Symbols Slip Away

Published: August 30, 2007, 11:50 am

Tags: Daily Newspaper Companies, News Democracy, Tribune, Avista, Boston Herald, Brian Tierney, L Times, Michael Lykoudis, Newspaper Buildings, Philadelphia Media Holdings, Philly Com, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Star Tribune

building is now inhabited by newspaper staff.) (Addendum: Jay Devine, representing the Philly newspapers, has added a clarification on the real estate history there, in a comment at end of this post.) Here in this Wall Street Journal story, we see moving and potential moving signs in Philly, Chicago, L.A., Boston and Minneapolis as well,

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MinnPost: A Broadside of Next Wave Journalism?

Published: August 28, 2007, 1:13 am

Tags: Advertising, Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, News Democracy, Crosscut, Dave Beal, David Cox, Doug Grow, Greg Patterson, Joel Kramer, John Camp, John Cowles, Kay Harvey, Kijiji, Knight Foundation, Lee

the core competencies of newspaper companies back in the '90s. Sure, they had printing presses, trucks, finance departments, ad sales people and journalists. But we figured out that the competencies hardest to duplicate were two: sales relationships with key advertisers and ability to produce reams of content every day. The others could be

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Pro Publica, MinnPost Burst Out of the Box

Published: October 17, 2007, 11:34 pm

Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, City Pages, Crosscut, Family Foundations, Joel Kramer, Martin Brown Foundation, Minnpost, Paul Steiger, Pegasus News, Pioneer Press, Pro Publica, Star Tribune, The P

through the growing haze of daily downsizing, you can see a sun trying to rise. While no single model of new journalism funding has yet emerged whole and succcesful, we can see common elements in experiments ranging from the just-announced Pro Publica to the soon-to-launch MinnPost to the newer national politics site, The Politico, and the

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Can You Say New Century Network in Japanese?

Published: October 19, 2007, 2:32 am

Tags: Daily Newspaper Companies, Google, Yahoo, Asahi, Japan News Portal, Knight Ridder New Media, New Century Network, Nikkei, Softbank, Yomiuri

and Nikkei (the business daily of Japan) enjoy close to 30 million in daily circulation. That's a tribute to the intensive home delivery systems in place in Japan, a strategy that means that more than 50% of newspaper revenue is circulation-based. That's compared to the 20% or so in the U.S. and and 25-35 in parts of western Europe. But the

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Is Locial the Next Wave?

Published: October 22, 2007, 6:46 pm

Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, Bob Tedeschi, I Neighbors, Lifeat, Meettheneighbors

Local + Social = Locial? There are probably better words, but it's a concept that's important. Bob Tedeschi's report in the New York Times today highlighted LifeAt, MeetTheNeighbors.org and i-Neighbors.org. They are all sites that use the social networking sites to connect us to ..... people next door, down the block or in the area. It's an easy

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NYT: A Good Month's a Reprieve, Not a Pardon

Published: October 24, 2007, 1:28 am

Tags: Advertising, Classifieds, Daily Newspaper Companies, New York Times, About Com, Boston Globe, Gannett, Media General, Morgan Stanley, New York Times Regional Group, New York Times Third Quarter Earnings

earnings like Gannett's (Newspaper Revenues -- -5.6%), McClatchy's (Newspaper Revenues -- -9.2%) and Media General's (Newspaper Revenues -- -6.7%), that's great news. Wall Street thought so too. In an up day at the market, NYT stock caught an upwind, closing up an unbelievable 9.83%. Observers would have the day to enjoy the irony that Morgan

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NYT: A Good Month's a Reprieve, Not a Pardon

Published: October 24, 2007, 5:45 pm