Tag: NEWSPAPER

According to Media Week, The Sun will become the first national newspaper to publish in 3-D this summer. In preparation for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa beginning on June 11th, the Rupert Murdoch-owned British rag will publish with an extra dimension (requiring those snazzy, headache-inducing red and cyan glasses) in the June 5th issue. Of course, it's not just soccer stories, images and ...

The Internet, never one to hold back from kicking someone while they're down, has eclipsed magazines when it comes to ad spending. Companies in 2009 set aside more of their marketing budget for Web-based advertisements than they did for those in the glossy tomes on magazine racks. According to ZenithOptimedia, magazine ad sales took a nose dive from $23.7 billion in 2008 to $19.5 billion in ...

A new poll from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that Internet news sources continue to command more U.S. readers than both local and national newspapers. The Web overtook newspapers in 2008, and has only lengthened its lead, with 61-percent of adults saying they get at least some news online. More important than the Web's growing popularity as a news source, though, is how ...

Well so much for that idea... The future of paid digital newspapers took a major blow yesterday, when the New York Observer reported that Newsday's attempt to charge online readers had officially failed -- miserably. Since first introducing its pay structure last October, the Long Island newspaper has managed to scrape together a grand total of 35 subscriptions. Not exactly a home run, ...

The New York Times has announced that it will begin charging for online content in 2011 -- perhaps, in so doing, beginning the end of the free ride we've all enjoyed so much. The new business model will still allow you to read a certain number of articles for free, but, once you reach the quota of free monthly articles, you'll be charged to access additional content. Subscribers to the print ...

A recent poll conducted by Harris Interactive, and cited by CNET, puts forth an ominous conclusion: a mere 23-percent of Web-surfing U.S. adults are willing to pay for their online news. As the death knell of print journalism reaches a deafening clamor, the statistic does not seem to bode well for news outlets -- or for those of us who like to stay informed. Fortunately, though, the inquiring ...

Google News is a great tool for searching out the latest information about current events. But it's no secret that some news outlets (particularly newspapers) are growing irate with their inability to cash in online like Google has. The search company is raking in cash from ads displayed alongside search results that link to news outlets' stories. One notable media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, has ...

HuffPo reports that a man in St. Louis lost his job at a local school after posting a vulgar response to an online poll, when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last Friday asked readers the following question: "What's the craziest thing you've ever eaten?" Spotting a hanging curveball, the employee posted a one-word vulgarity, alluding to a certain female anatomical feature. Web site administrators ...

"The Death of Print." We remember a few years back when this phrase just signified some impending yet inconceivable nightmare, like Y2K or 2012. Now, of course, we live in a world where newspapers are shrinking from sight, and Roland Emmerich rakes in $65 million in one weekend by peddling more visions of the apocalypse. For those of us who have worked in print, or have colleagues who still do, ...

Twitter seeks to connect people by asking the simple question, "What are you doing?" But the hot, trendy site isn't doing anything particularly new or groundbreaking. In fact, one newspaper appealing to an unexpected segment of the population has been capitalizing on that basic networking theme for 120 years, and, unlike the majority of print publications, is still thriving. The Budget, a ...

The rise of the Internet has certainly not been kind to the New York Times. While the paper still leads the way among Pulitzer-winning publications, the Times has also been racking up a plagiarism charge or two. Scandals involving fabricated stories, Pulitzer winners taking credit for others' work, writers ripping off other papers, and even a recent incident in which a writer lifted a blog ...

Well, it turns out all these fancy social networking tools we've grown to love so much aren't really all that new. Thanks to projects that have been digitizing newspaper archives, researchers have turned up references to "Face Book" and "Twitter" several decades before the Internet was even a glint in a military scientist's eye. An article from the August 24, 1902 edition of the Boston Daily ...

As more and more people get their news from the Internet, several long standing papers have closed up shop and gone online-only. We expect others to follow. However, a new study from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication suggests that, although most folks increasingly prefer to read their news online, they don't necessarily want to see newspapers go away. Of ...

Back in March, we wrote about the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I) and how it was printing its last edition and shifting completely to a digital format. It seems that the transition has been a bit rough for the paper, fueling speculation that a paper's print division actually drives its online readership. The Nielsen Online numbers from March are in, and, according to them, the Seattle P-I is no ...

Print publications are hemorrhaging money while online ad revenue has cooled off. In this new environment, where consumers expect content to be provided for free, news outlets are still struggling to find a working, profitable business model that satisfies customers. Time Inc., which is owned by our parent company Time Warner, announced on Wednesday that it plans to experiment with hybrid ...