NYTimes.com: News digging websites take on watchdog role

The NYTimes reports that as newspapers get smaller in the US, and broadcast news ratings plummit, 'a new kind of web-based news operation has arisen in several cities, forcing the papers to follow the stories they uncover'. Full story...

Tags: NYTimes.com, United States, web-based news operation

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New York Times expands video online

NYTimes.com has developed a new video player to allow clips to be embedded in more sections of the site.

The player, which uses technology from Brightcove, will make video available on the homepage, individual article pages and on the site’s blogs, a release from the title said. The player also lets users send footage to social networks and bookmarking sites, including Digg, Facebook and LinkedIn.

As part of a video overhaul, the Times’ video library has been redesigned and a regularly updated list of ‘most viewed’ clips now features on the site.

“Demand for high-quality video is on the rise across the web from both our users and our advertisers,” said Nicholas Ascheim, vice president of product management for NYTimes.com, in the release.

“To meet this need, we have upgraded our technology, increased our production values and given video even more prominence across the site.”

According to the release, the Times produces 100 videos a month, while also featuring content from Reuters, CNBC, MSNBC and Bloggingheads.tv.

Tags: Bloggingheads.tv, Brightcove, launch, New York Times, Nicholas Ascheim, NYTimes.com, USA, Video

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NYTimes.com: Mainstream US news sites increasingly comfortable with hyperlinking

A look at the practice of hyperlinking content by the mainstream news sites in the US: news organisations are becoming more comfortable linking to competitors, 'acting in effect like aggregators'. Full story...

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NYTimes.com: Online advertising is slowing for US newspapers

US newspapers face the reality that online advertising has 'slowed to a crawl'. After 17 quarters of 'ballooning growth', online revenue at newspaper sites is falling. Full story...

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NYTimes.com will stream content from three technology sites ‘very soon’

In the latest of the newspaper site online deals (it’s difficult to go a day without one it seems), Readwriteweb, GigaOM and VentureBeat will supply the NYTimes.com newly re-designed technology section with content.

ReadWriteWeb announced on its blog yesterday that over the coming weeks we will start to see ReadWriteWeb content appearing on the section’s front.

“This is great news for us”, ReadWriteWeb’s founder Richard McManus writes, “because it brings our brand of web technology news, reviews and analysis to a much wider audience.

“It also means that the innovative and often little known startups we write about daily get a chance to be seen in a mainstream publication. The New York Times has a reputation for quality and in-depth journalism, attributes that we strive for on ReadWriteWeb - so we’re excited about this partnership.”

Beet TV produced a video interview with Vindu Goel, deputy technology editor at the NY Times.

GigaOM have written about it here, while Vindu Goel blogs about the decision on the NY Times site: he promises ‘a steady stream of content from three of the most respected tech blogs on the Web’ very soon.

Tags: gigaom, NYTimes.com, online deals, ReadWriteWeb, Richard McManus, the New York Times, USA, venturebeat, Vindu Goel

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NYTimes.com and BBC scoop prizes at Webby awards

The New York Times website won two awards for best news and newspaper at last night’s Webby awards.

BBC News also picked up an accolade for news, while its world service website won an award for radio.

The Financial Times blog Alphaville was also named best business blog.

Winners at the Webbys were asked to make a five-word acceptance speech - the full list of which can be read on the awards website.

Here’s a selection:

“No longer a newspaper site.” (NYTimes.com)

“Me, me, me, me, me!!!” (comedian Stephen Colbert named person of the year)

“Not bad for an aethiest [sic].” (Speaking of Faith, winner in the religion and spirituality category)

Tags: Alphaville, Awards, BBC, ft, newspaper site, NYTimes.com, Stephen Colbert, The Financial Times, the New York Times

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NYTimes.com launches Baghdad bureau blog

NYTimes.com has launched Baghdad Bureau, a blog looking at stories about daily life in Baghdad outside the Green Zone.

The new blog is a collaboration between reporters, photographers and western and Iraqi staff that live in the Iraqi capital outside the Green Zone and will focus on the daily challenges, like travel and checkpoints, which confront the city’s inhabitants.

It will attempt to tell these stories using text, slideshows and videos from the staff, as well as posts and videos submitted by Iraqi readers.

The blog will also invite Iraqis to write about their personal journeys, such as their decisions to stay or leave the country and the feeling of running into the aftermath of a car bomb explosion.

It will also feature a forum to answer questions on issues about Iraq.

Tags: Baghdad, Baghdad Bureau, blogs, car bomb explosion, Iraq, NYTimes.com, USA

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NYTimes blog to be published in print

A local news blog launched by NYTimes.com in June could be given its own space in the Times’ print edition.

While stories from the City Room blog are often aggregated by the paper’s Metro section, the blog’s editor Patrick LaForge said content from the blog may be published in its own right in a bid to drive readers from print to online.

“There are a lot of people who read the print section who just aren’t aware of how much is available on the Web,” LaForge told the New York Observer in an article.

“A lot of that stuff doesn’t get in the paper. So how can we tell readers, ‘Hey, you might want to go check some of this out’?”

While NYTimes.com’s political blog The Caucus and technology blog Bits already feature as columns in the paper’s print offering, LaForge stressed that plans to put the City Room in print were ‘preliminary’ at this stage.

Tags: blogs, NYTimes.com, Patrick LaForge, technology blog, The Times, USA

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NYTimes.com launches Polling Place Photo Project and asks users to submit

NYTimes.com has launched the Polling Place Photo Project, its bid to document the election year with photos taken by its readers.

The Times is asking for submissions of every polling location in America during the 2008 primaries and general election, so that it can compile an archive of voting in the US.

Images of the New Hampshire primaries have already been uploaded to the developing site.

Tags: America, New Hampshire, NYTimes.com, Politics, The Times, United States

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