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Magazines Gotta Change for Tablet Market

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March 21st 2011
Author
Peter Koeppel

ADOTAS – Starting with the launch of the iPad and then bolstered by new Android-based tablets, the tablet market has publishers equally excited about the future of magazines and nervous about their transition to the tablet market. The tablet market is expected to hit 58 million units by 2014, according to [...] more...

Murdoch’s Paywalls Likely to Prove Futile

Written on
March 29th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Tough luck, Brits — Rupert Murdoch doesn’t want you reading his papers for free online anymore. That’s what you get for making all those Ozzie jokes — whose the shrimp on the barbie now? Paywalls will be effective in June are around News Corp.’s London rags, The Times and [...] more...

What Will Save Journalism? Apparently Not Advertising

Written on
February 5th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Mark Cuban — digital entrepreneur, chairman of HDNet and vocal owner of the Dallas Mavericks — is notorious for being outspoken and he played to character during his OnMedia 2010 keynote and domination of the obligatory “Lordy, Who Will Save Journalism?!?” panel that opened the second day of [...] more...

AP Keeps Writing, but Google Ain’t Hosting

Written on
January 12th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – If you want the latest coverage from the Associated Press, look no further than… Oh, wait a second — you’ll have to look further than Google News as no AP stories have appeared on the aggregator since Dec. 23. Google News signed a deal to host AP’s content in [...] more...

Google Cedes (Some) Control to News Publishers

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December 3rd 2009
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – It’s gotten so tedious to listen to news publishers whine about how Google News is killing their business that even Google has gotten tired of it and thrown them a bone — or two. Publishers were always welcome to exclude their content from Google News by filling out a [...] more...

Newsday paywall alienates prized columnist

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November 2nd 2009
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – While a loud quadrant continues to argue that charging for online content is the only way to save newspapers and magazines (and possibly even journalism as a whole), the possibility that “paywalls” could alienate prized commodities of journalism outposts reared its ugly head over the weekend. Saul Friedman, a [...] more...

Social Media or Bust: News Through the Eyes of Gen Y

Written on
July 28th 2009
Author
Gabe Dennison

ADOTAS — A survey conducted late last year by Pew Research Center demonstrates how the Internet has skyrocketed past newspapers and other sources as a preferred method for young adults to receive their news. More recently The Guardian, one of the UK’s most widely-read publications, also polled young readers around the [...] more...

Online news sites need print, charge for content

Written on
April 15th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — Everybody online keeps saying that papers should go completely online. Heck, I said it when I was working at a newspaper and saw declining advertising revenues slash and burn the newsroom. The problem is that a move like that might eventually work, but it won’t anytime soon. The scant [...] more...

Hyperlocal news and ad dollars

Written on
April 13th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — As newspapers struggle, and close down, local new sites are popping up, whether funded with seed money by non-profit groups or investors. Dozens of companies have been trying to develop the sites less because of a journalistic mission than the lure of local advertisers migrating to the Web. The Kelsey Group [...] more...

Could a Google News Network save journalism?

Written on
March 23rd 2009
Author
Jef Loeb

ADOTAS — There are times when you take a deep bite of the apple and notice something that makes you want to spit it out. At other times – especially recommended while chewing on the thought of an “L-shaped” recovery and the economic equivalent of permanent flat-lining – you might decide [...] more...



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