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11 Apr 09

Arianna Huffington: The Debate Over Online News: It's the Consumer, Stupid

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the key question is whether those of us working in the media (old and new) embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists and can't be resurrected.
"We have seen the future and it is here. It is a linked economy. It is search engines. It is online advertising. That's where the future is. And if you can't find your way to that, then you can't find your way."
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- as the industry moves forward and we figure out the new rules of the road, there will be -- and needs to be -- a great deal of experimentation with new revenue models.
  
  But what won't work -- what can't work -- is to act like the last 15 years never happened, that we are still operating in the old content economy as opposed to the new link economy, and that the survival of the industry will be found by "protecting" content behind walled gardens.
- the answer can't be content creators huffing and puffing and trying to blow down Google and other news aggregators. That one falls under Be Careful What You Wish For. As Jeff Jarvis points out, doing that is a one-way ticket to oblivion -- and a 50 percent drop in traffic.
- Consumer habits have changed dramatically. People have gotten used to getting the news they want, when they want it, how they want it, and where they want it. And this change is here to stay.
- content hoarding -- the walled garden -- didn't work. And instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, smart companies began providing embeddable players that allowed their best stuff to be posted all over the web, accompanied by links and ads that helped generate additional traffic and revenue.
- Instead of trying to hold back the future, I suggest that media execs read The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
- and see what he has to say about "disruptive innovation" and how, instead of resisting it, you can seize the opportunities it provides.

09 Apr 09

A.P. Exec Doesn’t Know It Has A YouTube Channel: Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos

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In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.’s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness.
Apparently, nobody told the A.P. executive that the august news organization even has a YouTube channel which the A.P. itself controls
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- I was on the phone arguing w/ AP today. We were embedding their YouTube vids on our station’s site. We’re an AP affiliate.

The Associated Press Is Angry At The Web - Faster Forward

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some of my fellow journalists have been all a-twitter about a speech that Associated Press chairman Dean Singleton gave at the AP's annual meeting.
You might think that Singleton is mad about sites that copy and paste entire AP stories. But the AP's earlier actions against bloggers, more recent statements by Singleton (see, for instance, paidContent.org's interview of him from this week) and subsequent reports (such as this Wall Street Journal item) indicate he's also angry about sites that merely post a summary or a brief excerpt of AP stories.

As you might imagine, that hasn't gone over too well on the Web.
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- The news business has issues, but blaming the Internet won't fix them.

That Whining Sound You Hear Is The Death Wheeze Of Newspapers

a.k.a. "sour grapes" and scapegoating

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yesterday, the A.P. declared all out war against the Internet.
What is going on here is that the newspaper industry contracted by $7.5 billion last year in the U.S. alone, and it is looking for someone to blame rather than adapt to the new realities of information consumption.
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- newspapers are targeting Google, just like everyone else, because it has the deepest pockets and directs large currents of information and attention on the Web.
- if they really wanted to, any newspaper could stop its content from showing up on Google with one simple line of code:
  
  Get your tech person to change your robots.txt file to say this:
  
  User-agent: *
  
  Disallow: /
  
  Done. Do that, you’re outta Google. All your pages will be removed, and you needn’t worry about Google listing the Wall St. Journal at all.
  
  Oh, but you won’t do that. You want the traffic, but you also want to be like the AP and hope you can scare Google into paying you. Maybe that will work. Or maybe you’ll be like all those Belgian papers that tried the same thing and watched their traffic sadly dry up.
- What is going on here is that the newspaper industry contracted by $7.5 billion last year in the U.S. alone, and it is looking for someone to blame rather than adapt to the new realities of information consumption.

02 Dec 08

CNN Pitches a Cheaper Wire Service to Newspapers - NYTimes.com

CNN is expanding into the news wire biz, challenging AP.

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CNN, in the afterglow of an election season of record ratings for cable news, is elbowing in on a new line of business: catering to financially strained newspapers looking for an alternative to The Associated Press.
With its CNN Wire, the company is going up against the largest news-gathering operation in the world in The A.P.
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- a number of newspapers are unhappy with the cost of The A.P., a nonprofit corporation that is owned by the 1,400 papers that are its members.
- For CNN it amounts to another expansion of its operations at a time of severe cutbacks across the media industry, especially at newspapers
- for The Associated Press, it represents a competitive threat
- He outlined three main challenges: the economic downturn, the financial problems of newspapers, and what he described as customers becoming competitors, specifically CNN.

30 Oct 08

Exploring the content sharing model: Is this the future of the US newspaper industry? - editorsweblog

Content sharing at newspapers

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US newspapers have recently begun working together on content sharing deals on an unprecedented scale.
There has been much speculation that the driving force behind these agreements is dissatisfaction with the recent changes at AP.
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- one group of five papers in New Hampshire who have had an agreement in place for the past 15 years.

30 Sep 08

AP: The Modern Newsroom Looks Like a Little RSS Reader - ReadWriteWeb

Comparing news wire services to RSS feed readers

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That ticker doesn't print everything out any more, though, and a constant stream of news is something that millions of consumers now see for themselves inside their RSS feed readers.
o web savvy consumers, the Marketplace might look like an RSS reader that publishes selected stories to a webpage built out of Del.icio.us badges.

21 Sep 08

Political Pulse | The Associated Press-Yahoo! News Poll on Yahoo! News

good use of survey data to explain perplexing polling resutls

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one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks
40 percent of all white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents.
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- 40 percent of all white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents.