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NYT Unveils Digital ‘Skimmer’ Edition
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The latest New York Times digital application was announced today, Times Skimmer. The newspaper describes it as providing “online readers with the layout and experience of paging through a newspaper, [...]
AP Layoff Count Hits 90, Meets Goal
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The count of Associated Press union employees laid off this week has risen to 90, which, according to the news cooperative, meets its goal of cutting annual payroll costs by [...]
Miami Herald to Launch Hyperlocal Web Network
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The Miami Herald is the latest metro daily to join the hyper-local Web world, with plans to start a network of online sites focused on five of its communities before [...]
Survey: Local Newspaper Readership High
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A new National Newspaper Association survey found that 81 percent of respondents read a local weekly paper each week, 73 percent read “most or all of it,” and those readers [...]
NYT Looks to Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs
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The New York Times announced a new buyout offer today, the paper reported on its Web site, adding that the goal is to cut 100 newsroom jobs, about 8 percent [...]
AP’s Curley Welcomes Microsoft, Google Battle
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Associated Press president and chief executive officer Tom Curley believes Microsoft’s search engine battle with Google will revitalize the media industry by helping it profit more from online news, according [...]
AP, Internet Broadcasting Ink Content-Sharing Pact
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The Associated Press has forged a content distribution agreement with Internet Broadcasting, a provider of local Web sites, content and advertising, which will provide AP members on the IB network [...]
CNN Launches Pay-Per-Story Web Service
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CNN, which earlier this year started a syndication service to distribute its content to newspapers, has launched an a la carte version that allows news outlets to buy stories online [...]
McClatchy Papers Join AP Mobile News Network
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McClatchy announced today that all 30 of its daily newspapers have joined The Associated Press mobile news network, AP revealed in a release. Two McClatchy papers, The Miami Herald and [...]
Social Media for Newspapers: Risks and Rewards
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Ask editor Bill Marimow of The Philadelphia Inquirer about the ways his staff has used social media, and he’ll reel off a list. There was the high school that went [...]