EXCERT FROM BELOW:"Long term, we've got to get paid for news (online) or we can't keep producing it," he said. But he said that has to be an industry-wide solution and not just one paper acting alone.ORIGINAL URL (no longer active):http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/14446579.htmPosted on Fri, Apr. 28, 2006No major changes, new owner tells Pioneer PressBY JOHN WELBESSt. Paul [Minn.]newshare

FORWARDING NEWS RELEASE from Tiffany Shackelford, on behalf of the Online News Association . . .Leading digital journalists, bloggers and educators from around the world will gather to discuss the practical and the possible in online journalism during the eighth annual conference of the Online News Association (ONA), to be held Oct. 17-19, 2007, in Toronto.Organizers say the conference will newshare

BELOW FROM:http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/blogger-agrees-to-pay-30000-in-sec-case/August 8, 2007, 2:15 pmBlogger to Pay $30,000 in S.E.C. CaseBy Chris SuellentropTags: Jerome Armstrong, s.e.c.Prominent liberal blogger Jerome Armstrong has agreed to pay nearly $30,000 in fines in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that Armstrong touted the newshare

ORIGINAL URL:http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/495906,CST-NWS-markos03.articleNative Chicagoan began blog as 'personal therapy'August 3, 2007By Abdon M. PallaschChicago Sun-Times Markos "Kos" Moulitsas Zuniga, 35, started blogging five years ago as "personal therapy" to get his frustrations with the Bush administration off his chest. "It was the tail end of the Afghanistan war and the lead-upnewshare

http://journalism.missouri.edu/news/2007/02-15-newsroom-profitability.htmlNewspaper Study: Investing in the Newsroom is Good for BusinessJournalism and Marketing Researchers Determine News Quality Directly Impacts Profitability By Bryan Daniels MU News Bureau Columbia, Mo. (Feb. 15, 2007) -- In recent years, the newspaper industry has experienced a variety of changes. None have been morenewshare

MGP2006 alum Josh Wilson provides this analysis of the coverage of a cycle-car crash in San Francisco that raises multiple questions about the post-now, think-later nature of web journalism.-- bill densmoreBy Josh WilsonCheck out SFGate right now for a fascinating look at how both initialnewspaper coverage and Web 2.0 technologies can help shape perceptionof a story.At issue is a confrontation newshare

Pegasus News (http://www.pegasusnews.com) a Dallas-based hyperlocal news operation started by Mike Orem, has been acquired by a Seattle-based TV-station operator, Fisher Communications Inc. In a news release sent by email, Fisher said the move was "part of its initiative to develop new online-only content for its key local markets" and said it plans to take Pegasus' news, information and newshare

ORIGINAL URL:http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-ohmynews18jun18,1,5652649,full.storyPOSTED: June 18, 2007Citizens are the media in S. KoreaOhmyNews' populist approach, though risky, is widely emulated.By Don LeeLos Angeles Times Staff WriterSEOUL . Kim Hye-won's journalism career began when she decided to write about her teenage son fighting with his father. The elder Kim was newshare

ORIGINAL URL:http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_13/b4027019.htm?chan=searchWally Bowen of Mountain Area Information Network writes:This Business Week article underscores the difficulty of creating an advertising-supported, local journalism web portal. And it also underscores the potential of our business model, based on ISP revenue and public radio-style underwriting revenue from newshare

Paul Schmelzer of the website "Minnesota Monitor," posted a Q&A interview on April 6, 2007, with the former editor of the Twin Cities City Pages, the dominant alternative weekly in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The editor, Steve Perry, had quit after a chain took over the weekend. Perry, according to Smelzer's intro, is "busy developing a website plan for a newspaper in another city, while considering newshare

ORIGINAL URL:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003581648Craigslist Founder: People Who Run Printing Presses 'Screwed'By Jennifer SabaEditor & Publisher OnlinePublished: May 07, 2007 12:20 PM ETNEW YORK -- You have to hand it to Craig Newmark, founder of the wildly successful classified site Craigslist, for telling it like it is to an audience of newshare

A key to the sustainability of journalism has always been local advertising. But now new competitors to the local newspaper -- and to web local startups -- are developing technologies for reaching into the local market and selling local advertising online.In Santa Clara, Calif., this week, the Kelsey Group, a Princeton, N.J.-based consultancy, is running a conference focused not on news or newshare

GIRAFFE PROFILE PAGE:http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=378John Moyle of The Overland Examiner, a local online news blog in a St. Louis, Mo., suburb, in a Sept. 15, 2006, email exchange with Bill Densmore of The Media Giraffe Project:Recently I decided to really "stick my neck out" over at _the Overland Examiner_ (http://www.theoverlandexaminer.org) . I posted an newshare

LINK TO MEDIA GIRAFFE PROJECT PROFILE: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=378 ORIGINAL URL: http://overlandsailor.blogspot.com/2006/09/who-is-this-guy.html OverlandSailor steering for a brighter future At the helm of the Overland Examiner is OverlandSailor, just a regular guy who has decided not to let government corruption continue without a fight. As an newshare

The co-founder of an Upper Montclair, N.J., local online news blog quotes a survey colleague as saying the Newark, N.J., daily fails to take notice of the blog site's news at its peril. Here's the text of an email Liz George sent to the Media Giraffe Project on Feb. 1, 2006: Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:07:26 -0500 From: Liz George Subject: Baristanet eats newspapers for lunch;newshare

ORIGINAL URL:http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/16717129.htmORIGINALLY POSTED: Friday, Feb. 16, 2007Apple CEO lambasts teacher unionsBy APRIL CASTROAssociated Press WriterAUSTIN, Texas - Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions Friday, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers. Jobs compared newshare

Time-Warner cable's Albany regional management is under fire from Berkshire County officials in Western Massachusetts after they laid plans to remove a Boston television station from the region's cable lineup and replace it with another network affiliate from Connecticut. The issue is important because Western Mass. is largely served by the Albany, N.Y., media market and the county's newshare

Today there is a one-day "emergency summit" of the American Society of Newspaper Editors to talk about the growing challenge to the First Amendment posed by the jailing of reporters. We asked Sarah Olson, a free-lance writer subpoenaed to testify in the court-martial of an anti-Iraq war soldier, to comment on her situation by answering a series of questions posed by Bill Densmore. Sarah Olson newshare

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ORIGINAL URL: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/16334481.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 28, 2006Web news opposites NEWSTRUST.COM, DIGG.COM: TWO VISIONS OF WHAT ONLINE READERS WANTBy Elise Ackerman Mercury NewsTwo years ago, the inspiration for creating a Web site for news junkies hit two men with vastly different ambitions. One hoped to make boat-loads of money. The other dreamed of newshare