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.
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paidContent:UK: IHT.com will keep its own identity on NYTimes.com site
Forbes.com originally reported the site would shut down, but that is not the case, Vivian Schiller, SVP and GM of NYTimes.com told paidContent. “The idea is to have one big global brand under one roof,” she said, stressing that IHT content would be co-branded and feature IHT specific content.
Forbes.com: IHT.com will become part of the New York Times site
IHT.com will be shut down, and hosted on the NYTimes.com site. An internal e-mail sent round staff on Tuesday said that the New York Times site will now host International Herald Tribune news, which could lead to ‘hard decisions’ about jobs at IHT.
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.
NYTimes.com: Energy company funds video news site
A new video news website covering the development of natural gas wells in northern Texas will be funded by the Chesapeake Energy Corporation.
NYTimes.com: New WSJ.com uses its community of subscribers
The Wall Street Journal will activate a revamped version of its website tomorrow, but the existing wall that blocks non-subscribers from reading most of the site’s business news articles will remain.
Spanish websites claim top prizes at ONA awards
ELPAIS.com and Soitu.es claimed the first general excellence awards for non-English language sites at the Online News Association (ONA) 2008 awards on Saturday.
Speaking of ElPais.com, the judges said the site was ‘a shining example of how traditional media can blossom in the digital arena.’
“On a bedrock of first-class journalism it has built a brilliant suite of infographics that are rich in information, yet easy to consume,” they added in a press statement.
‘Bearing Witness‘, Reuters multimedia coverage of fallout from the invasion of Iraq in 2003, took the best multimedia feature award in the large sites category, while Adrian Holovaty’s EveryBlock was awarded the prize for outstanding use of digital technology by a small site.
A full list of the winners across the 23 awards and comments from the judges is available through the ONA awards website, but are listed in brief below:
Knight award for public service – WashingtonPost.com, Fixing D.C. Schools
General excellence (small site)– ArmyTimes.com
General excellence (medium site) – LasVegasSun.com
General excellence (large site) – CNN.com
General excellence, non-English (small site) – Soitu.es
General excellence, non-English (large site) – ELPAIS.com
Breaking news (medium site) – STLtoday.com, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkwood shootings
Breaking news (large site) – NYTimes.com, Eliot Spitzer’s resignation
Investigative journalism (small site) – RecordOnline.com, The Times Herald Record (Middletown, N.Y.) “I Didn’t Do That Murder”: Lebrew Jones and the death of Micki Hall
Investigative journalism, (large site) – DallasNews.com, The Dallas Morning News, Unequal Justice, and The Globe and Mail, Talking to the Taliban
Multimedia feature (small site) – GEO.fr, Hidden World
Multimedia feature (medium sites) – STLtoday.com, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Reporting for Duty
Multimedia feature (large site) – Reuters.com, Bearing Witness
Online commentary (small site) – Mark Fiore, MarkFiore.com, animated political cartoons
Online commentary (medium site) – The Bottom Line, DallasNews.com, The Dallas Morning News
Online commentary (large site) – God-O-Meter, Beliefnet.com
Online video presentation – OregonLive.com, The Oregonian, Living to the End
Outstanding use of digital technology (small site) – Everyblock.com
Outstanding use of digital technology (large site) – DesMoinesRegister.com, Iowa Caucuses
Specialty site journalism – WebMD
Student journalism – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill & Universidad de los Andes, South of Here, and Taylor Hayden, Western Kentucky University, Closer to Home: A Daughter Becomes Caregiver
Topical reporting (small sites) – Azstarnet.com, Arizona Daily Star, Immigration in the Spotlight
Topical reporting (large sites) – USAToday.com, Today in the Sky
NYTimes.com: Internet sites blocked for reporters in Beijing
China is failing to uphold its promises to open up internet access for the media during the Beijing Olympics with sites relating to human rights issues and Tibet blocked.
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)
NY Gov. Spitzer prostitution ring story crashes NYT website
A huge traffic surge in response to a story broken by the NYTimes.com alleging New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was a client of a high-end prostitution ring, caused the newspaper website to crash yesterday.
According to Huffingtonpost.com, the website went offline for a period yesterday afternoon as readers raced to read allegations about the governor.
NYT spokesperson Diane McNulty told Huff Post that between 2-4 pm (Eastern US time) traffic was 60 per cent higher than at the same time last Monday. NYT mobile almost doubled its traffic for the same period.
Considering the amount of traffic that would have been generated by last week’s primaries for the Democratic candidate, yesterday must have been a pretty heavy day.