The launch of local print and online sections will continue throughout 2010, said Janey Robinson, NY Times president and CEO during the last earnings call. “Local coverage will complement our national and international reporting. We are planning expanded reports in other key markets across the country.” So far, the NYT has seen its expanded San Francisco local section challenged by the WSJ, which has also been beefing up New York metro coverage. The NYT’s other local dedicated coverage includes Chicago and an online hyperlocal effort called The Local. More…
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Citysearch is threw its hat into the local advertising ring with the launch of CityGrid
, a set of APIs which makes all of Citysearch’s local listings content and advertising available to other Websites and mobile apps. The APIs include more than 15 million local business listings, 3 million user reviews, and access to 500,000 local advertisers looking to reach people near their places of business. More…
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New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website, according to people familiar with internal deliberations. After a year of sometimes fraught debate inside the paper, the choice for some time has been between a Wall Street Journal-type pay wall and the metered system adopted by the Financial Times, in which readers can sample a certain number of free articles before being asked to subscribe. The Times seems to have settled on the metered system.
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Medianewsgroup files Chapter 11
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Two more newspaper sites have launched pay-walls. South Coast Today in Bedford, Masschusetts and The Record in the San Jaoquin County are both owned by Dow Jones. According to the announcement on the South Coast web site:
We have carefully crafted a plan that allows everyone to continue to sample our content either as a visitor or a registered member. Our loyal print subscribers can gain full access under a free trial and on renewal opt to continue that access for a small incremental fee. And our frequent Web site visitors have special subscription options available to view the entire site in the future.
Recordnet.com had this to say:
The package, called All-Access, will combine the print edition of The Record with unlimited access to news and information on www.recordnet.com. Current print subscribers will have free access to Recordnet for two months or until their existing subscription renews, whichever is longer. Upon renewal, the additional cost for unlimited online access will be 77 cents per week.
Online-only subscriptions are available through sign-up forms on the Web site. All-Access and online subscriptions include access to the E-Record, which has the pages from the printed newspaper in PDF form.
In other news last week, Hearst launched it’s new e-reader, the Skiff, thinner and more flexible than the Kindle. TechCrunch tested the new device a few days ago and gave it a failing grade:
However, I doubt seriously you or I will ever add a Skiff device to our arsenals this year or any year. Here’s why.
Skiff isn’t in this game to make hardware. They’re in it to save their industry from imminent demise.
PlasticLogic, in an agreement with Detroit Newspapers to launch an e-reader, launched the QUE at the same show, CES in Las Vegas. The agreement with Detroit to package subscriptions on and off the device has been delayed however, reported due to other priorities at the newsaper.
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Hearst launches LMK.com, a 2.4 million-page content aggregation of entertainment, can supplement other media sites, be sold by local sales forces (PaidContent)
AP, News Corp to Search Engines and bloggers: Pay Up (AP)
Journalists use Kickstarter to fund personal projects (Poynter)
Barnes and Noble to sell its own e-reader (PaidContent)
CondeNast ad revenues drop $1 billion in 2009 (Newsweek)
What Yellow Pages companies should do (scroll down to find the story) (Screenwerk)
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