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WEB NEWS WARS

 News Corp. May 
 Shield All Content 
 From Google 

Murdoch says move will wait until paywalls go up at newspaper sites

Nov 9, 09 12:52 PM CST
(Newser) - News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch wants to put a permanent end to “parasite” Google’s “kleptomania” when it comes to content on his newspapers’ websites. Murdoch says the Wall Street Journal and others will likely be removed from Google’s search registry “when we start charging”... More »

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Google • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • online news • search engine • News Corp • newspaper industry • paywall

Guardian Axes American Website After 2 Years

Hit by losses, media company discontinues Guardian America

Oct 21, 09 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Guardian News and Media, which lost $60.3 million last year, is shutting its US-centered website Guardian America after two years. The site will now redirect to the Guardian newspaper's American coverage. Guardian America's head will instead focus on international expansion for guardian.co.uk. "We took it down... More »

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newspaper • online news • Guardian America • newspaper industry • Guardian Media Group • Guardian

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) - Executives at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. have been meeting with rival newspaper publishers about a consortium that would charge for web content. The publishers of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times are all believed to have met with Jonathan Miller, the News Corp. officer overseeing digital... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • New York Times • Tribune Company • Washington Post • online news • New York Times Company • News Corp • newspaper industry • Jonathan Miller • Hearst

OPINION

 Rather: Prez 
 Must Save 
 Newspapers 



Corporate interests, internet advertising crippling industry

Aug 9, 09 10:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The media's troubles mean that "this country is in trouble," writes Dan Rather, and no academic study or think-tank report is going to save the industry. We need no less than a “nonpartisan, blue-ribbon” presidential commission “to address the perilous state of America’s news media,... More »

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media • Internet • newspaper • Dan Rather • online news • President Obama • newspaper industry • committee

 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

OPINION

 Radio Was Gonna 
 Kill Newspapers, Too 


Aug 4, 09 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - As newspapers hemorrhage cash, the refrain is getting louder: the Web is sucking away their audiences and can never replicate the serious journalism they offer. The argument sounds familiar, Jack Shafer writes for Slate: It’s the one newspapers used against radio 80 years ago. Radio was then seen as... More »

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radio • Internet • newspaper • online news • media coverage • print journalism • Jack Shafer • newspaper industry

(Newser) - How to save newspapers and, in fact, journalism itself? Wire creator (and former newspaperman) David Simon implores the publishers of the New York Times and the Washington Post to start charging for their websites. “Content matters," he writes in the Columbia Journalism Review. "And you must... More »

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New York Times • Washington Post • online news • The Wire • David Simon • newspaper industry • paywall

Analysis

Politico's Obsessive Focus Is Future of News

It's all politics, all the time, and it works

Jul 1, 09 6:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you want to see the future of news—and how it will be delivered—look no further than Politico as a reasonable guide, writes Newser founder Michael Wolff in Vanity Fair. Unlike general-interest newspapers, which flail about knowing too little about everything, Politico has an obsessive focus:... More »

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politics • news • online news • journalism • Michael Wolff • Politico

(Newser) - TMZ left its more savory rivals in the dust yesterday, reporting Michael Jackson’s cardiac arrest and death before any other media outlet, the Chicago Tribune reports. The AOL gossip website reported Jackson’s death at 2:44 local time, less than 20 minutes after the singer expired. But... More »

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entertainment • media • Time Warner • AOL • online news • death • CNN • TMZ • Los Angeles Times • Michael Jackson • new media

OPINION

Web Will Make Conservatives Miss the Times


May 27, 09 11:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservatives have delighted in making a piñata out of the New York Times, but they’re not going to like the post-Times world, writes Francis Wilkinson of The Week. “Like most powerful, entrenched institutions, the Times has a deep bias in favor of the way... More »

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New York Times • conservative • online news • journalism • media bias • Huffington Post

(Newser) - Readers who find Newser too challenging can rest their brains with online games that play out major news events. Often linked via social networking sites, millions of Web surfers are killing pig-like viruses, tossing shoes at President Bush, or landing a plane in the Hudson River in popular Flash games.... More »

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Internet • online news • flash games • free online games

(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

OPINION

 Newspapers of the 
 World, Unite: Carr 

Collusion could avert disaster—but it won't happen

Mar 9, 09 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The newspaper industry is in dire straits, and to fix it, its bosses must “hold hands and jump off the following cliffs together,” writes David Carr in the New York Times. First, end free web access; it will  drive away some readers, but they're not paying for quality... More »

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newspaper • advertising • antitrust • online news • David Carr • newspaper industry • aggregator • collusion

(Newser) - Rumors of the New York Times’ demise are greatly exaggerated, reports... the New York Times. “Despite some published alarms to the contrary, the company has positioned itself to ride out another year of recession, maybe two,” Richard Péréz-Peña writes in a review... More »

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newspaper • New York Times • advertising • online news • New York Times Company • New York Times building • newspaper industry

'News Fatigue'
Is Symptom of Youth's Shift

Deluge of info has multi-tasking Gen Y less able to go in-depth

Jun 2, 08 1:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Young adults find themselves so inundated with headlines and so distracted by other media that they have trouble consuming the news, the AP reports of a new study. The project followed 18 ethnically diverse 18-34 year olds, and found that though they wanted in-depth news, they had trouble sorting through... More »

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news • news distribution • online news • Associated Press

Daily Paper Dumps Print Edition for Web

Move by 90-year-old Madison paper an omen for industry

Apr 28, 08 4:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - In an ominous sign of the times for printed news, a struggling 90-year-old Wisconsin daily newspaper is shutting down its daily print operation, but will continue to exist online, the New York Times reports. Most of the 18,000 current subscribers of Madison's afternoon Capital Times are switching to the... More »

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Internet • newspaper • online news • Madison

Bad Credit News Means
Good Tidings for Analysts

Demand for financial insight buoys Breaking Views, other sites

Mar 24, 08 5:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bear Stearns crisis was bad news for many, but it was good news—or at least good business—for financial analysts at London-based Breaking Views. The credit crunch is increasing demand for the company’s financial insights, offered online and, through various partnerships, in print. Breaking Views is seizing... More »

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Wall Street Journal • Bear Stearns • Financial Times • finance • online news • credit crisis • Economist • subprime crisis • economy • Breaking Views • Hugo Dixon • Daylife • Upendra Shardanand • Maziar Darvish • Internet Business Group • financial crisis

Slashdot Doesn't Digg Ron Paul

Tech blog founder says social news sites too easily manipulated

Jan 30, 08 12:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Social news sites like Digg don’t work, says Slashdot founder Rob Malda, and Ron Paul is Exhibit A. “A lot of these community news sites are all about Ron Paul,” Malda told the New York Times. “What that is really demonstrating is that you are... More »

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Web 2.0 • Digg • online news • Ron Paul • Slashdot

Online Journal Readers
Can't Put Wallets Away (Yet)

Murdoch lets decision slip at World Economic Forum

Jan 25, 08 12:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Puncturing the hopes of thrifty web surfers everywhere, the Wall Street Journal will continue to charge for much of its online content, at least for now. New owner Rupert Murdoch's apparently unplanned announcement at the World Economic Forum in Davos came after months of dithering over whether to keep access... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • online news • News Corp

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