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Friday, August 8, 2008
Knight News Challenge Launches Online 'Garage' The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation signed on 50 coaches to help mentor applicants of the Knight News Challenge, with the hope of attracting a more diverse range of ideas. The coaches are past jurors and winners. - August 07, 2008
Poytner/Kent State Workshop to Look at Rules for Bloggers The Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop is going to take place on Sept. 18 at the Kent State main campus in Ohio. This year, the fourth annual conference theme is "Whose Rules?" which will focus on online ethics for bloggers. - August 06, 2008
'Orange County Register' Web Site Gets New Look The Orange County Register has made several presentation changes to its Web site, OCRegister.com, designed to draw more attention to news stories, multimedia content, and other interactive areas of the site. - August 06, 2008
Sulzberger to Keynote WebbyConnect Summit Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of The New York Times Company, will headline the list of speakers at the 2008 WebbyConnect Summit, from Oct. 22 to Oct. 24, 2008, in Dana Point, CA., organizers announced Monday. - August 04, 2008
Record Number of Entries for XMA Cross Media Awards Ifra, the international research and service organization for the news publishing industry, announced a record 56 publishing houses in 27 countries submitted 66 projects for the third annual XMA Cross Media Awards. - August 01, 2008
'Post-Gazette' Acquires Pittsburghmom.com The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has acquired pittsburghmom.com, a site designed to help parents raising young children in Pittsburgh find local resources and information and connect with each other. The newly redesigned site will be integrated into the Post-Gazette's family of products, which includes the daily newspaper and post-gazette.com - August 01, 2008
Blog Tracks Worsening Press Freedoms As Beijing Olympics Approach For five months now, the World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) has been monitoring the worsening press freedom conditions in China as the Aug. 8 opening of the Beijing Olympic Games approaches. - July 29, 2008
'Star-Ledger' Launches Live Webcast The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. launched its live noontime webcast Monday to general acclaim from industry observers and readers. - July 29, 2008
'SFGate.com' Unveils Feature to Rate, Review Bay Area Businesses The San Francisco Chronicle and its affiliated Web site, sfgate.com, on Monday introduced BayList, a new feature that allows Chronicle readers to rate and review Bay Area businesses. - July 29, 2008
Adicio at Work with NWjobs.com Web-based classified advertising solutions developer Adicio in Carlsbad, Calif., is working with NWjobs.com, a source for job seekers in the Northwest, to increase self-service job posting revenue. - July 28, 2008
FT.com Snags 500K Registered Users The Financial Times said today that more than 500,000 are registered users of FT.com. - July 28, 2008
E.W. Scripps Co. Appoints VP/Interactive The E.W. Scripps Co. has appointed Rusty Coats vice president of interactive for the newspaper division effective Aug. 18. In his new position, Coats will lead the Internet strategy for Scripps' daily and community newspapers in 15 markets working closely with publishers. - July 28, 2008
IAB Issues Guidelines For Third-Party Ads The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released new guidelines for public comment pertaining to third-party ad servers. The document supplements current measurement rules and provides definitions and guidance on the auditing process used in placement, trafficking, and reporting of interactive advertising. - July 25, 2008
iMedix Powers Parade.com Health Section Search The iMedix community-powered health search engine was chosen to power the search capabilities of Parade.com's health section in the first major media partnership for iMedix and the first search engine technology to be embedded at Parade.com, the online companion to Parade magazine. - July 24, 2008
WashingtonPost.com Using 'Green' Content from Grist.org Grist.org today announced it has reached a syndication agreement with WashingtonPost.com to provide news and information about environmental politics, green living, and other eco-topics. - July 24, 2008
ChicagoTribune.com Doubles Traffic After Redesign The Chicago Tribune has doubled the number of unique visitors to its Web site since launching a redesign a year ago. According to Nielsen Online, ChicagoTribune.com had 4.8 million uniques in June 2008. - July 22, 2008
MySanAntonio.com Re-Launches The Web site of the San Antonio Express-News has re-launched, allowing people to comment on stories, upload news items and photos, and share and recommend favorite features. - July 17, 2008
Sun-Times Media Group Reports Web Traffic Spike Sun-Times Media Group announced that total page views of its Sun-Times News Group Web sites increased to a total of 54.6 million in the year just ended. - July 16, 2008
Pheedo Measuring More RSS User Behavior The Pheedo media advertising network announced today that it now measures RSS user behavior for advertisers distributing content through Facebook and MySpace, and various other Web sites and blogs. - July 15, 2008
'Seattle Post-Intelligencer' Ads Affected By Computer Virus Parts of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Web site were affected by a computer virus that apparently spread through online advertisements for NWAutos, the paper reported Sunday. - July 14, 2008
'NYT' Rolls out iPhone App The New York Time is releasing an iPhone application giving readers offline users capabilities, a photo browser and personalization options. - July 10, 2008
AP Mobile News Network Available Free on Apple App Store The Associated Press' Mobile News Network application for the iPhone and iPod touch will be available as a free download from the Apple App Store beginning today. - July 10, 2008
Turner Sports, Yahoo Strike Partnership Turner Broadcasting System and Yahoo have entered a partnership involving advertising and sports-related content. Under the agreement, Turner will represent sales for the NBA, golf, and NASCAR pages of Yahoo Sports and will provide content to Yahoo. - July 10, 2008
FT.com Rolls Out Embedded Vid Player The Financial Times has launched a new video player embedded in news and feature articles on FT.com. - July 09, 2008
Web Integration on a Grander Scale We've reached a point where we have to go beyond user comments as the sole means of interaction on news articles. That's right -- it's time to integrate staff content and eyewitness reports supplied from your community. - by Steve Outing - July 24, 2008
Inching Toward an Era-Appropriate New Local News Service While it's tempting to view newspapers from a glass-half-empty perspective, I'm trying to force my brain into a half-full viewpoint. Actually, I think that is possible, because there are some interesting experiments under way right now that may hint at some solutions. - by Steve Outing - June 27, 2008
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