A battle between old and new media in the White House press corpsSome of the old-school hacks in the White House press corps are angry about the addition of online newcomers like TPM and HuffPo to their exclusive club, saying it blurs the line between news and punditry.
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Google: How we can save newspapers
Frustrated newspaper executives need to stop blaming Google for their woes, writes the company’s CEO Eric Schmidt: Google News provides their sites with billions of clicks every month — and it wants to work with them to build bigger audiences and make more money.
The sites already making paywalls work
With all the huffing and puffing over Murdoch’s plan to paywall his News Corp sites, you’d think no-one had ever actually done it before. But there are plenty of sites on the Web already making paywalls work for them. We can think of at least one…
Arianna Huffington: Suck it up, Rupert
Murdoch and his offsiders have called news aggregators “parasites,” “content kleptomaniacs”, and “tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet”. Enough with the name calling, says Arianna Huffington.
Google limits access to free news
Google News has announced it will allow online news sites to limit the number of articles readers can view free through Google News searches to five a day with its “First Click Free” program. Is the search giant selling out to The Man?
Murdoch lieutenant: “Free costs too much”
The CEO of News Corp publisher Dow Jones, Les Hinton, has — surprise, surprise — come out in defence of the company’s move to paywall all its content, denouncing the “false gospel of the web”: “We were promised that eyeballs meant advertising, clicks meant cash”.
NYT cites Wikipedia as a news source
How times have changed: once derided as inaccurate and unreliable, Wikipedia is now being cited as a source by no less than the New York Times. Is it time to start more seriously vetting its editors and contributors?
In defence of paywalls
We can’t go on pretending that quality online journalism costs nothing, says journalism professor Tim Luckhurst. Thousands of journalists have already lost their jobs — paywalls are the industry’s only hope to restore some sanity.
AOL to replace human editors with robots
AOL — owner of big-name websites like TMZ, Politics Daily and Popeater — is creating an algorithm to automatically assign stories and pay rates to freelancers, based on web searchers and stats.
Twitter is the new Walter Cronkite
In 1963, it was CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite who broke the big story of the JFK assassination. In 2009, Twitter would have it first. The news may not be as accurate, but in the age of real-time, that’s the way it is.
The Punch vs. The National Times: a difference of opinion
Fairfax has been lauding the visitor stats for its new online commentary site The National Times for blowing those of News Ltd’s The Punch (and ours) out of the water. But are the sites even comparable?
Rival publishers unite to create iTunes for magazines — but who’s buying?
Magazine publishers Hearst, Time Inc and Conde Nast are joining forces to create an “iTunes for magazines” — a online storefront for digital versions of their titles and articles. But they can’t sell a product that’s already free… are those paywalls we can see looming on the horizon?
More publishers join Murdoch’s War on Google
Publishers of the Denver Post and the Dallas Morning News are planning to de-index their news articles from Google, emulating Rupert Murdoch’s plans to cut the search off from News Corp content.
Murdoch puts a gun to Google’s head, Microsoft helps pull the trigger
Rupert Murdoch has been threatening to pull all News Corp content from Google, and Microsoft is willing to pay him to do it. But Bing can’t buy all the news — and it might just sell its credibility in the process.
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Microsoft-Murdoch deal in the works
Microsoft is in negotiations with News Corp to pay the media empire to pull all its news content from Google, insiders tell the Financial Times.
The Times reveals its paywall plans
As News Corp sites prepare to erect paywalls around their content, the editor of the UK’s Times has finally revealed some bricks-and-mortar information about what it will be doing and when.
Why Murdoch won’t ditch Google
Rupert Murdoch’s threat to pull all News Corp sites from Google’s search index may not be as dire for the mastheads as many are predicting — but chances are he won’t follow through on it anyway: he’ll just erect even higher paywalls.
How Murdoch can really hurt Google
Rupert Murdoch’s recent rejection of Google may be less about news content and more about the search engine wars, suggests Michael Arrington: by de-indexing from Google, other search engines could pay him for the rights to index News Corp content.
Why Murdoch may be more right than wrong about Google
mUmBRELLA’s Tim Burrowes asks if Rupert Murdoch has a point in thumbing his nose at Google and locking News Ltd’s content behind a paywall — maybe Google traffic isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Which News Corp sites are “stealing” content?
Rupert Murdoch has been a vociferous opponent of news aggregation sites “stealing” his News Corp content for profit — but are News websites just as guilty? Tech Dirt lists all of Murdoch’s sites currently aggregating other sites’ news and articles.
Rupert Murdoch: the internet does not exist
As of a year ago, Rupert Murdoch had never even used Google — so maybe he doesn’t realise that by cutting News Corp off from it, the organisation will cease to exist, writes Michael Wolff.
Dear Rupert, this is how the internet works. Google it.
Rupert Murdoch may be rich, clever and influential, but his plan to remove News Corp content from Google’s index is just daft. If he wants us to read his stories, let alone pay for them, we have to be able to find them first.
Fairfax to rule out locking up news websites?
Listen out for the sound of the Murdoch minions reacting to the cold water Fairfax Media CEO Brian McCarthy has just poured on the idea of paid content news websites at the Fairfax AGM this morning.
Murdoch gives Google the finger
Rupert Murdoch says he’s going to remove News Corp media sites — like The Australian and the WSJ — from Google search results once the company’s big paywall goes up. Yeah, who needs new readers anyway?
Boston Globe / Wednesday, 2 December 2009
As of today, bloggers and tweeters in the US will be required by law to disclose any freebies and payments they get for product reviews or endorsements. Some of them are a bit miffed.