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Microsoft, News Corp Have Talked About De-Indexing From Google

Financial Times | Matthe Garrahan, Richard Waters, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media


Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to "de-index" its news websites from Google...

Chi-Town Daily News Founder Launches Chicago Current

Chicago Public Radio | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago


Next month, the former Chicago Tribune reporter will start another journalistic endeavor, Chicago Current. ...

Newser's iPhone App: Are We Nuts?

Michael Wolff | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media


Michael Wolff

The most popular news medium became, over the last 10 years, the computer, effectively putting newspapers out of business and changing the nature of t...

Young Voices in The Future of News -- Connection, Conversation, Community

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology


Jose Antonio Vargas

It's time for young journalists and, just as important, young technologists to show how news is expanding and being re-defined in a world under Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Online Journalism: How To Launch Your Own News Site

mashable.com | Posted 11.24.2009 | Technology


These bootstrapping indie journalists are learning to run their own small business, including tending to many details they never had to worry about be...

New York Times Malware: Bad Ad On NYTimes.com

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media


Here's a front page story the New York Times (NYT) would rather not be running: The paper is warning readers to be aware of bogus ads running on its ...

Video: Consumers will Pay for "Indispensible" Online Content, TIME.com Managing Editor

Andy Plesser | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media


Andy Plesser

While the monetization models for online news are emerging, there will an upside for  highly valued, niche content, says Josh Tyrangiel, Managin...

Associated Press To "Protect Its Content Online" By Tracking Use

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media


The Associated Press is moving ahead with plans for a system to detect unlicensed use of its content and potentially create new ways for the 163-year-...

Behind the Scenes of the Global Web Series

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 08.15.2009 | World


Reporters Uncensored

There are unfortunately too many international issues that the MSM does not cover

This Blog Post Is Even Weirder Than Michael Jackson

Dave Astor | Posted 08.01.2009 | Comedy


Dave Astor

The general public doesn't mourn the deaths of less-famous people who might have continued to also do great things if they hadn't left us before their time.

Memo to the Today Show: Don't Make Me Defect to Good Morning America

Val Brown | Posted 06.27.2009 | Media


Val Brown

The Today Show has been reporting on dizzingly dull tales of personal calamity and reality show losers that must be embarrassing for their anchors with serious news chops.

On the Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor

Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics


Sen. Patrick Leahy

Having a Supreme Court that better reflects the diversity of America helps ensure that we keep faith with the words over the entrance of the Supreme Court: "Equal justice under law."

Sonia's Wiki Wonder

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media


Marty Kaplan

Seconds after the networks say that it's Sotomayor, her Wikipedia entry is updated. The newspapers in my driveway can't do that; that's why on-paper distribution is dying.

Ken Lerer, Huffington Post Co-Founder on the Future of Journalism

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media


Martha St Jean

Lerer said, "Traditional media outlets could have developed online," but four things came together creating what he termed the "perfect storm."

How Print News Will Survive on the Internet

Mike Doyle | Posted 05.23.2009 | Chicago


Mike Doyle

It doesn't matter what you were taught in journalism school, relevance on the Internet is demonstrated by disclosing who you are, what you think, and why.

Pew Survey Charts Amazing Surge in Role of the Internet in Campaign 2008

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media


Greg Mitchell

Some 55% of all adults said they went online for news and information about the election or to communicate with others about the race.

Technology, Not War, Is the Solution to Publishing

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media


Penny Herscher

The global publishing giants have declared war on the new technology generation of content distributors -- but they have lost sight of what consumers value and how they want to get to the value.

The Debate Over Online News: It's the Consumer, Stupid

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.10.2009 | Media


Arianna Huffington

For me, the key question is whether those of us working in the media embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists.

Newspapers Want Cash for Content. Tough Luck

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media


Michael Wolff

Newspapers are going to war with the Internet--or trying to. So far it's more accurately a phony war.

To Newspaper Moguls: You Blew It

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media


Jeff Jarvis

The Newspaper Association of America is meeting this week and they're preaching angrily and self-righteously about their plight. Here's the speech I think they should hear instead.

Associated Press Fights Web News Piracy: "We Can No Longer Stand By And Watch Others Walk Off With Our Work"

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 05.07.2009 | Media


SAN DIEGO — The Associated Press and the newspaper industry plan an aggressive effort to track down copyright violators on the Internet and try ...

Giving Away Free Netbooks to Save America's Newsrooms

Will Bunch | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media


Will Bunch

What if newsrooms put their remaining muscle behind a program to provide information to the public and close the digital divide at the same time? That's "social benefit" we can believe in.

Is It Time For a Newspaper Bail-Out?

Johann Hari | Posted 04.22.2009 | Media


Johann Hari

In an age of bail-outs, several European governments are experimenting with ways to support the world of news-gathering so it will survive for the twenty-first century.

TV remains top source of news even as online grows

AP | JEREMY HERRON | Posted 09.17.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — Fewer Americans are reading newspapers and are instead getting their news online, but television remains the leading source of news i...

Google News "Stuck In Neutral," Not A Game-Changer

New York Times | Miguel Helft | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media


While news organizations continue to worry about what Google is doing to their business, the company is far from achieving the kind of dominant positi...