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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Outside.in Partners with Publishers for Hyperlocal News Since launching its hyperlocal platform for publishers last summer, Outside.in has formed partnerships with The Miami Herald, Dow Jones Local Media Group, the New York Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Tribune Co. properties, including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Breaking News, ChicagoNow, and Baltimore Sun. - February 05, 2010
Kibboko Expands Scout's Personalized Reading Suggestions Toronto-based Kibboko Inc. has introduced its Scout, a new release of its content-personalization system for publishers, which features a new interface and goes beyond articles to suggest books and e-books using Kibboko's patent-pending Bamboo technology. - February 05, 2010
Access of Mobile News Rises 500% More people are accessing local news through mobile phones -- more than 8 million readers, a 500% increase year-over-year, according to new stats from Verve Wireless. - February 04, 2010
Travidia Launches Grocery Portal to Help Newspapers Local online marketing company Travidia has launched a grocery-focused portal aimed at helping newspapers. The site will contain deals, recipes and editorial content. - February 03, 2010
'Batavian' Honored for Innovative Enterprise of the Year The Batavian, the online news organization headed up by former GateHouse Media executive Howard Owens, gets a nod from the Genesee County Chamber of Commerce for "Innovative Enterprise of the Year." - January 25, 2010
Boston.com Adds More Towns to Hyperlocal Sites Fresh from celebrating its one-year anniversary, Boston.com's Your Town is expanding its cluster of hyperlocal sites to cover two additional towns, Arlington and Dedham. - January 21, 2010
Twitter Growth Slows, Engagement Grows A new report from the marketing software firm HubSpot looks at Twitter usage and determines that growth is slowing. - January 19, 2010
Minneapolis 'Star Trib' Reveals More Digital Data The Audit Bureau of Circulations has released its sixth Consolidated Media Report for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Unlike the other CMRs for The Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, Ft. Worth Star Telegram, Kansas City Star and the Gettysburg Times, this one focuses more on digital. - January 18, 2010
Can Pay Walls Work in Small Markets? A small cluster of newspapers in Northwestern Pennsylvania, halfway between Erie and Pittsburgh, in 1997 started a Web site ¿ a basic operation that published some stories culled from their print editions to go along with obits and classifieds. Twelve years later, a lifetime in Internet years, they decided it was time for an overhaul ¿ and while they were at it, they concluded it was best to affix a price tag to that content. - January 14, 2010
Steve Outing: Goodbye, for Now? But Looking Forward Back in 1995, Editor & Publisher invited me to start writing a freelance column for its brand-new Web site, initially called MediaInfo.com. Nearly 15 years later, this will likely be my last column for E&P -- and I'd like to project on what digital possibilities could have been for newspapers, and how it's not too late for them to put things right. - by Steve Outing - January 14, 2010
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