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US Papers Post Worst-Ever Quarterly Results |
The Newspaper Association of America made no attempt to draw attention to its release of the first quarter financial results for America's newspapers
- and with good reason. Sales skidded an unprecedented 29.4%, driven
by disasterous results in classified advertising amid the weakest
economy in 60 years. Alan Mutter notes that if this trend continues,
the US newspaper industry could close out 2009 with total sales of less than $30 billion - a 40% drop in just four years.
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Google Wave may reshape newsgathering
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Google said it would have a big announcement at its developer conference this week, and it didn't disappoint. Google Wave
will be the buzz of the Internet in the months between its
demonstration last week and its roll-out at an undisclosed time later
this year. Wave has some important implications for the news industry,
so it's a good idea to become familiar with it. Here's our early
reaction.
Wikis are important metaphor for newsgathering. They enable
multiple authors to flexibly contribute information and edit each
other's entries to build a kind of living news account. Wikipedia is, in many ways, a metaphor for the newspaper of the future.
Google has always liked wikis. Its search engine results page is
being slowly rejiggered to add wiki functionality and recent
initiatives like Knol are a Google spin on Wikipedia.
Wave takes the wiki model to a new level with the addition of
Twitter-like immediacy along with classic e-mail and discussion
techniques like the inbox and threading. Wave also has the ability to
handle just about any kind of file you can throw at it. Adding
documents, webpages and media to a Wave workspace is a drag-and-drop
procedure, and once the content is there, everyone can edit it.
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Miami Herald ad claims subscription includes "Life Magazine" supplement that stopped publication 2 years ago
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An ad touting the many benefits of subscribing to the Miami Herald includes a claim the paper comes with a Life Magazine supplement on Fridays. One little problem: the Life Magazine newspaper supplement ceased publication 2 years ago.Read more...
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