The Seattle Times partners with neighborhood news blogs "The hyperlocal online journalism movement continues to gain momentum as mainstream news outlets jump on the trend. The latest entrant is The Seattle Times, which today announced partnerships with the West Seattle Blog, Next Door Media (publisher of MyBallard.com, PhinneyWood and other sites); The Rainier Valley Post [...]
News International to close thelondonpaper "News International, parent company of The Times, is to shut thelondonpaper, its free evening title, after concluding that it could not sustain the freesheet in the depths of the recession. The proposed closure, which could see 60 full-time and contract staff lose their jobs, leaves the field to London Lite, [...]
New York Times Invites Public Discussion of Paid Content "According to an e-mail newsletter sent from the Times Monday evening, more than 3,000 readers have joined The New York Times Insight Lab, an insiders' club for discussion of the paper and its various journalistic and financial dimensions." (tags: journalism newspapers research content online advertising new+york+times) [...]
The Paper That Doesn’t Want to Be Free "Indeed, the newspaper started charging readers for access to its Web site in 2002. Now, with few signs that advertising is rebounding from a deep slump, and with other publishers moving to imitate FT.com by erecting so-called pay walls, Mr. Ridding feels vindicated. “It was pretty lonely [...]
Hacker hits UC journalism school's Web site "UC Berkeley is notifying 493 applicants to its Graduate School of Journalism that a Web site hacker may have had access to their Social Security numbers and birthdates. The letters went out Tuesday to those who applied to the journalism school between September 2007 and May 2009, said [...]
