The Washington Post has launched a new web section that links readers to the best of political coverage, including that of their rivals.
The websites of the largest newspapers in the US are worth an estimated $300 million to $450 million, according to new analysis from Borrell Associates.
The resurfacing of a six-year-old Tribune Co article, which caused a severe drop in share prices for United Airlines, is being blamed squarely on search engines by the publisher.
Tribune has said it asked Google to stop crawling its newspaper websites ‘months ago’.
The story came to light after a single user accessed the story on the Florida Sun Sentinel’s website at a period of low traffic, the publisher claimed.
This single user was enough to push the story to the top of the paper’s most viewed articles, where it subsequently came to the attention of Google’s crawlers.
A series of major advertising deals have been signed this week, starting with the creation of a national online real estate ad network between 282 US newspapers and Zillow.com.
The agreement, Editor&Publisher reports, will see the papers and Zillow sharing each other’s advertising inventories and splitting revenue.
Politico.com has opted for a selective approach in creating an ‘advertising and content distribution network’, says an article in MediaWeek.
US newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, aggregators, and local TV news websites are among 40 outlets signed up to the network.
Under the partnership the media organisations will carry Politico content on the political sections of their websites and feature ads sold by Politico’s sales division. The outlets can also run their own ads alongside Politico content.
Meanwhile in the UK, Birmingham radio station BRMB has joined up with classified advertising site AdFlyer to create a website for motoring ads targeted at the west Midlands. Users can upload an ad for the first week free of charge, a release from AdFlyer said.
Company has made appointments to Tribune titles to increase search engine optimisation and build online offering.
After 124 years in publication, industry news organisation Editor&Publisher (E&P) has entered the blogosphere with two new titles.
Fitz & Jen Give You the Business, written by editor-at-large Mark Fitzgerald and associate editor Jennifer Saba; and The E&P Pub, which will take contributions from all staff, went fully live today.
Because E&P’s main site doesn’t allow article comments, selected articles will be republished on the blog, an announcement by E&P said.
A woman, who was forced to leave a local shopping mall for wearing a short dress, is suing an anonymous online user for a post to a Kentucky newspaper’s forum.
The Associated Press (via Editor&Publisher) reports that 20 year old student Kymberly Clem says she was escorted by security from the Richmond Mall on August 9 after a row erupted over the length of her skirt.
Clem’s attorney says an anonymous posting on The Richmond Register claimed Clem had exposed herself to a woman and two children. Clem is suing the anonymous user for unspecified charges.
According to the AP, the newspaper has erased the comment and banned the user, known as ’12bme’, for violating the website’s terms of service.
The Register’s assistant editor Lorie Love, who is reponsible for posting comments made by users on the site, has been subpoenaed to give a deposition in connection with the suit.
Young and trainee journalists have a future in the industry if they can adapt their skills to the changing shape of the industry, says E&P.
According to the latest Nielsen figures, 80 per cent of the top 30 US newspapers online have recorded a year-on-year increase in unique users.
The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday have signed a four-year deal, which will see the papers printed in New York.
The initial run, starting in September, will be of the papers’ home editions, but New York-specific content will be added in due course.