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Google: We
Have 'Moral' Duty to Help Journalism

We're not a newspaper killer, says CEO

Oct 3, 09 5:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google not only wants big news organizations such as the New York Times to survive, it has a "moral responsibility" to help them do so, says CEO Eric Schmidt. He tells Search Engine Land "there will always be a market for people who read the newspaper on a... More »

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technology • Google • Internet • Eric Schmidt • online newspapers • newspaper industry

Online Newspaper Payment Plan in the Works—at Google

Revolutionary model slated for completion within a year

Sep 10, 09 12:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Newspapers are getting help figuring out how to charge for online content from an unusual source: archnemesis Google. The online giant says it's developing a "micropayment" model that should be ready in the next year, reports Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab. "The idea is to allow viable payments of... More »

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Google • online newspapers • new media • newspaper industry • Newspaper Association of America

OPINION

 'Tragedy Porn' 
 Drags Down 
 News Sources 

Online outlets mull pay models, putting a price on sensational stories

Sep 7, 09 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Word is that newspapers will soon start charging for online news—but no one’s quite sure what it’s worth. Take a story like the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping: It’s “tragedy porn” that “neither informs nor enlightens. It merely titillates,” writes Simon Dumenco for Advertising Age.... More »

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media • Internet • Rupert Murdoch • news • pornography • online news • online newspapers • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido

(Newser) - Three weeks ago, a well-dressed man carrying $600 in his sock wandered out of a Seattle park with no idea who he was or how he got there. His identity was a mystery until today, when the Seattle Times ran a story on its front page with his picture... More »

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China • Internet • chef • English • online newspapers • amnesia • Seattle Times • Edward Lighthart

cuban to wolff:

 I'm Fat, but No Idiot: 
 Consumers Will Pay for News 


Aug 13, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Media maverick (and Mavericks owner) Mark Cuban mixes it up with Newser's Michael Wolff, laying out his argument that consumers should and will pay for online content if it's packaged in a new way. Allowing as how he's fat, but hardly an idiot (as per Wolff's column yesterday, see link... More »

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Mark Cuban • online newspapers • News Corp • Michael Wolff • paywall

 No More 
 Free News 
 Online: 
 Murdoch  

Mogul steps up plans to charge for all News Corp's web offerings

Aug 6, 09 2:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch says the days of News Corp.'s giving away news from its newspapers and TV stations on the Internet are numbered, the Financial Times reports. Murdoch, who earlier this year said he planned to test pay-to-read models, now says he plans to start charging for access to all... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • online news • paid content • online newspapers • News Corp

(Newser) - Google CEO Eric Schmidt's proposed model for online newspapers calls for a cable TV-like approach to subscription content, with tiers like free, basic, and premium. His ideas not only come too late, but they're “deeply flawed,” Douglas A. McIntyre writes for 24/7 Wall Street. And "even if... More »

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Google • New York Times • advertising • cable TV • subscription • online newspapers • newspaper industry • free news

(Newser) - Before newspapers held sway over politicians and maintained monopolies under federal anti-trust exemptions, they were a service people were willing to pay for, Michael Kinsley writes in the Washington Post. Even if “technology is on the verge of removing some traditionally vital organs of the body politic,” they... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • New York Times • online news • online newspapers • subsidies • newspaper industry • aggregator • investigative journalism

(Newser) - Content aggregators like Google—and yes, the humble site you’re reading now—are “parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet,” Robert Thomson, editor of the Wall Street Journal, told fellow News Corp. paper the Australian last week. He warned that the “... More »

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Google • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • online newspapers • News Corp • Robert Thomson • aggregator

Murdoch: Papers Need to Charge for Web Access

Journal subscription plan 'not a gold mine, but it's not bad'

Apr 3, 09 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times ought to be charging people to read its content, and so should every other newspaper that wants to survive, Rupert Murdoch said today. “People reading news for free on the Web, that’s got to change,” the News Corp chief said at a Washington... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • New York Times • Wall Street Journal • online newspapers • News Corp

Detroit's Papers Missing on Red-Letter Day

Freep, News stop delivery on day GM CEO forced out

Mar 31, 09 6:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yesterday was a once-in-a-lifetime news day in Detroit: GM's boss was forced out, Chrysler was pushed to merge with Fiat, Michigan State made it to the Final Four—and the first day that Motor City's two daily newspapers didn't land on doorsteps to tell readers all about it. Both the... More »

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Internet • newspaper • General Motors • Detroit • online newspapers • Detroit Free Press • newspaper industry

HuffPo Starts Investigative Journo Venture

Site steps in as daily newspapers fold or
cut reporting staffs

Mar 30, 09 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Laid-off journalists, take heart: The Huffington Post, aiming to take up the slack as daily newspapers shrink staffs, is about to fund an investigative team that will begin by casting critical eyes on the economy. Ten staff journalists, coordinating with freelancers, will provide work to other sites at the same... More »

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journalism • online newspapers • Arianna Huffington • Huffington Post • newspaper industry • investigative journalism

(Newser) - Political correspondent Jeff Greenfield examined what he called "the demise of the great metropolitan daily" on CBS News this morning, wondering what will replace it. The answer: Newser, among other online sources. "It is potentially an incredibly good time," said Newser founder Michael Wolff. "We have... More »

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newspaper • online media • online newspapers • Michael Wolff

 Seattle P-I Prints 
 Final Issue Today 

Seattle's oldest newspaper switching to online-only edition

Mar 17, 09 2:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Seattle will become America's latest one-newspaper town after the final print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer rolls off the presses today, the Seattle Times reports. Publisher Hearst is switching the 146-year-old newspaper to an online-only edition and laying off almost all of its 167 staff after it was unable to... More »

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newspaper • Seattle • online newspapers • newspaper industry • Seattle Post-Intelligencer • Hearst

 Seattle Paper Poised 
 to Switch to Online-Only 

Paper to quit printing if no buyer is found by March 10

Mar 6, 09 3:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Hearst publishing is pressing forward with plans to make the Seattle Post-Intelligencer an online-only newspaper, staffers say. The company—which has said the paper will quit publishing if no buyer is found by March 10—has made "provisional offers" to a few reporters selected to take part in the... More »

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newspaper • Seattle • online newspapers • newspaper industry • Seattle Post-Intelligencer • Hearst

(Newser) - Newsday will buck an industry trend by charging people to read it online, Reuters reports. The newspaper's owner, Cablevision, says it will "end the distribution of free Web content," though it didn't specify when. In the US, the Wall Street Journal is the only major paper currently sticking... More »

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Internet • Wall Street Journal • Newsday • subscription • online newspapers • newspaper industry

GLOSSIES

At Times, Web Geeks Grab at Future, Keep Grip on Past

Team aims to keep it the organization 'of record' even as print product sees its obits

Jan 12, 09 11:17 AM CST
(Newser) - There’s a quiet revolution going on at the New York Times, hiding behind all the print-journalism doom and gloom, New York reports. Since 2007, a team of “developers-slash-journalists” has been collaborating with reporters and editors to create interactive web features—like the trippy Election Day Word Train, which... More »

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newspaper • online media • New York Times • online newspapers • print journalism • newspaper industry

OPINION


 To Save the News,
 Look to iTunes 

Model proves people will pay for what could be free

Jan 12, 09 10:44 AM CST
(Newser) - People expect their news for free these days, but online advertising revenue isn’t enough to support major operations, David Carr writes in the New York Times. But there may be hope for the newspaper industry. A decade ago, people began getting their music illegally. Now, the convenience of iTunes... More »

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Steve Jobs • online advertising • Wall Street Journal • iTunes • subscribers • online newspapers • Consumer Reports • David Carr • newspaper industry

OPINION

Print Times Not Quite Dead, But Hope Lies in Its Ashes

Journalism faces a challenge, but hardly a disaster

Jan 7, 09 3:36 PM CST
(Newser) - We know it’s coming, that day when print newspapers cease to exist, but it won’t be this year, right? Maybe, maybe not, Michael Hirschorn writes in the Atlantic, and it wouldn’t necessarily be a disaster. The New York Times is in trouble—it could default on $400... More »

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Internet • newspaper • online media • New York Times • advertising • journalism • online newspapers • print journalism • Huffington Post • economic downturn • newspaper industry

(Newser) - New York may be America's cultural capital, but Seattle and Minneapolis top the list as the nation's most literate cities, reports LiveScience.  The rankings are based on newspaper, magazine, and online news readership, library usage, book purchases, and educational levels. The two cities also topped the list last year.... More »

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newspaper • Minneapolis • San Francisco • Atlanta • Boston • Washington DC • Denver • St. Louis • literacy • libraries • Seattle • Cincinnati • book • online newspapers • Portland, Oregon • readership • St Paul • Central Connecticut State University • Jack Miller

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