August 24th, 2010
The list of publishers embracing mobile devices as a viable platform for their content continues to grow. The iPad is receiving particularly strong love.
Online magazine Slate now has an iPad app, available for free in the iTunes App Store. Perhaps former....
August 5th, 2010
Blogging is an integral part of the future of news media. This is not just my own opinion; it is one shared by the news giant Forbes. On Tuesday, Forbes launched a new array of blogs using one of my favorite tools: the WordPress blogging platform.
Why....
July 14th, 2010
In February, The New York Times announced a partnership with New York University to produce an online news initiative covering the East Village of NYC. The collaboration is called The Local: East Village (LEV) and is supposed to launch sometime this fall.
According....
July 5th, 2010
On Wednesday, June 23, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a summary dismissal of Viacom’s copyright infringement case against YouTube and its parent company, Google. The court found that YouTube and Google were....
June 28th, 2010
The Times, based in the U.K. and owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has begun rolling out its paywall. Eventually, readers will have to pay a subscription fee in order to read the newspaper’s online content, but for now, they only have....
June 23rd, 2010
Krishna Bharat, the creator of Google News, is optimistic about the future of journalism. He believes it can survive as long as it adapts to the changes within the industry. In an interview conducted at the IJ-7 conference at Stanford University, which....
April 6th, 2010
With the U.S. release of Apple’s long-anticipated iPad over the weekend, gadget gurus and media analysts are all aflutter with their take on the device. Here’s a roundup of some of that coverage.
* Media Bistro’s FishbowlNY has a survey....
March 3rd, 2010
Pew Research Center, a non-profit organization that focuses on issues, attitudes, and trends shaping the USA and the world, released a report on Monday about where Americans get their news. The study was performed by Pew Research Center’s Pew Internet....
February 23rd, 2010
The Miami Herald announced plans this weekend to discontinue a voluntary payment program for its online content. After evaluating response to the program, which started this past December, the newspaper had decided to end it. No monetary figures regarding....
February 8th, 2010
After erecting a pay wall to its site in October, Newsday has amassed only 35 paid subscribers. Fewer than three dozen people have signed up to pay $5 a week or $260 a year for unlimited access to the site.
John Koblin at The New York Observer writes:
Of....
