This journalism plays a vital role in local communities and in our nation's democracy. But it also costs money: newspapers continue to invest more than $5 billion a year in journalism, far more than any other medium in the United States. Newspapers deliver news and information when and where readers want it, in print, digital and mobile platforms.
To do that, we must have fair copyright laws to enable newspapers to receive fair compensation in support of this journalism. Read on
THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY IS STRONGER ONLINE THAN YOU THINK
Some observers looking to analyze data on engagement have concluded that newspaper digital content is less engaging than content offered up by other news sources.
A closer look at the data, in terms of the average time spent per visit, suggests these observers are wrong.
The digital world, with its distinctive capacity for tracking activity, delivers up a variety of indicators for online publishers to measure progress. Unique visitors, visits, page views, time, reach, composition and clicks are a few of the usual topline metrics. The mobile component adds others, such as taps and swipes. Read on
Motor Trend Publisher Source Interlink Media Folds 12 Magazines, Lays Off Nearly 100
Source Interlink Media, publisher of Motor Trend and Automobile magazines, has folded 12 titles as part of a broad restructuring that claimed dozens of employees, including half the editorial staff at Automobile, according to Scott Dickey, the company's CEO since February. Read on
Who's behind that tweet? Here's how 7 news orgs manage their Twitter and Facebook accounts
Human, bot, or something in between? We asked ABC News, the AP, CNN, NBC News, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal how they power their Twitter and Facebook accounts. Read on
May Brings a Loss of Viewership for Cable News Channels
May is typically a slow month for television news channels - not much is happening and there is competition from season-ending series elsewhere.
But all the news channels have seen particularly troubling declines in viewership this month of May: CNN had the least-watched 9 p.m. hour in the channel's history and finished fourth, behind Fox News, MSNBC, and even its sister channel HLN, in attracting the viewers that news advertisers pay for. MSNBC had its lowest performance in prime time since July 2006.
As for Fox News, the dominant leader in cable news ratings, had its worst overall month since before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and its prime-time lineup of hosts all scored their worst numbers in the years since then. Read on
The Washington Post partner program signs on nearly 100 newspapers
Digital First Media, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Columbus Dispatch among the latest to join pilot program
Nearly 100 newspapers will participate in The Washington Post partner program first announced earlier this year. Several papers have already begun rolling out the program to their subscribers, and the rest will be rolling out access over the next several weeks.
The program, which was announced earlier this year, allows partner publications to offer The Post's suite of digital products free as an added value for their paid subscribers. In turn, The Post is able to expand access to its digital content across desktop, mobile web sites and phone and tablet apps. Read on
