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By: Jim Rosenberg In the days before the launch of the Apple iPad, the biggest newspapers in America — USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times — contended to be first out of the gate with an app. It seemed inevitable they …
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6/11/10
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By: Jim Rosenberg Part 2 of E&P's June cover story on tablets. Devising a model for income is at least as tricky as figuring how to invest in product development. As device choices grow and prices shrink, bundling hardware at a discount with …
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6/11/10
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By: Jim Rosenberg Part 3 of E&P's June cover story on tablets. The formats are all modern, but for newspapers looking to present content on a variety of tablets and e-readers, the process may seem like using several old typesetter languages for …
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6/11/10
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By: Mario Garcia Here’s the question I’ve been hearing more and more frequently from newspaper publishers and editors in the weeks since the launch of Apple’s iPad: We want to develop a tablet edition — but how do you start?I …
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6/11/10
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By: Jim Rosenberg Part four of E&P's June cover story on tablets. Hearst Corp. launched FirstPaper with what seemed general and broad objectives: build a platform to serve newspapers and their readers, and build an e-reader tailored for …
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6/11/10
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By: Debra Gersh Hernandez When presidential administrations change, newspapers prepare for changes in their regulatory, business and legal environments. As Tonda Rush, director of public policy for community newspaper group the National Newspaper …
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6/11/10
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By: Shawn Moynihan Somewhere, Willie and Joe are smiling: Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin has received one of the nation’s highest honors by being featured on a U.S. postage stamp. The 44-cent stamp, dedicated at the New …
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5/20/10
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By: Alan D. Mutter Springtime seems to have brought a refreshing zeal for innovation to the nation’s battered newspapers — and not a moment too soon, given the 27% drop in advertising sales in 2009. But, as I learned in my decades of …
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5/20/10
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By: Shawn Moynihan Somewhere, Willie and Joe are smiling: Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin has received one of the nation’s highest honors by being featured on a U.S. postage stamp. The 44-cent stamp, dedicated at the New …
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5/20/10
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By: Alan D. Mutter Springtime seems to have brought a refreshing zeal for innovation to the nation’s battered newspapers — and not a moment too soon, given the 27% drop in advertising sales in 2009. But, as I learned in my decades of …
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5/20/10
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By: E&P Staff The joke goes that every Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist knows how the first sentence of his or her obituary will read. But it might be noted that in 2010 a prominent Pulitzer mention showed up, if not in the birth announcement of …
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5/19/10
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By: Jennifer Saba Is the newspaper industry in the throes of a serious loss of digital knowledge? One after another for the last several months, some of the most high-profile digital executives have announced they are decamping not just from their …
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5/19/10
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By: Jim Rosenberg and Mark Fitzgerald Journalists write the stories, so it’s no surprise that cutbacks in newsrooms are usually the focus of all those hard-luck headlines about newspaper job losses in the past few years. But no matter how deeply …
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5/19/10
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By: Shawn Moynihan “I didn’t have any tip-off, I was home with my wife,” says Mark Fiore, the self-syndicated editorial cartoonist who was surprised to hear he had won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in that category. The two were “having a …
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5/19/10
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By: Shawn Moynihan Many newspaper carriers may find their work rewarding, but not like Douglas Jordan does. Then again, most other carriers haven’t been doing it for more than 60 years. Jordan, who still delivers daily for The Advocate in Baton …
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5/19/10
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By: Jennifer Saba Is Google News a parasite sucking the marrow out of newspapers, or a beneficial symbiotic pal, that sends lots of traffic to their sites? It depends upon whom you ask. Regardless, the company rightly or not has been accused of …
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5/19/10
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By: Jennifer Saba The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), best known for presenting national documentary programs like Frontline, is moving to report local news, saying cutbacks at newspapers have cut into hometown coverage. In a partnership …
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5/19/10
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By: Jennifer Saba There’s a creeping fear taking hold among traditional media types that young buck start-ups that have perfected the art of content creation on the cheap with SEO (search engine optimization) magic are moving in to displace the …
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5/19/10
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Piet Bakker is a professor in the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam whose blog, www.newspaperinnovation.com, is the most comprehensive source of information about free newspapers around the world. …
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5/19/10
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