Online Newspapers News & Articles

The next time you bemoan email, think about how you’re sharing information.  The New York Times Customer Insight and Advertising Groups, in an attempt to help marketers better understand how its readers share information found that, despite a plethora of social sharing tools, email is still the most popular sharing tool.

Recently we talked about WoodWing’s digital magazine tools for the iPad. Since then, magazine and newspaper publishers around the world have launched more than 50 apps and published more than 350 digital publications for the iPad using WoodWing’s tools. While publishers are busy making their magazines come to life on the iPad, WoodWing has been busy updating and releasing more new features. Let’s take a look!
 

It’s hard out there for a freelancer. But that’s what you get for wearing your pajamas to work, right? Yesterday, we would have said yes. Today, we say show me the Ebyline.

Recently, the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), an organization based in the UK that represents digital publishing companies that create original, branded, quality content, announced the recipients of its Digital Publishing Awards for 2010.

This week in web publishing: newspapers' first quarter 2010 results for advertising revenue, possible negative effects of paywalls on younger readers, Publish2 as a rival for the AP.

A few weeks ago Ben Elowitz, co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social websites, addressed the issue of quality in published content in two parts. First he went through the checklist of what traditionally made content great: credential, correctness, objectivity and craftsmanship and dismantled each one of them.

This week web publishing brings collaboration among countries, an examination of pay walls, big and small and a French women's blog aggregator.

There’s been speculation about how the iPad is good for the publishing industry, provided that publishers take the time to invest in it’s unique design and technologies platform.

Though the iPad has been out less than a week, it hasn’t prevented business providers from offering services to the publishing industry, specifically for the iPad.

It’s safe to say that many media publishers are focused on creating new streams of revenue. But how many media revenue models can there be and how do you identify the one that works best?

Ross Dawson, author and blogger, has been working to create a Media Revenue Models framework in an effort to give companies a sample of what is available.

It’s fair to say that you can gauge the importance of a problem by those that attempt to solve it. The Manhattan project had Einstein. Newspapers have Google.

To be fair, we’ve been tackling this problem for some time now and many qualified technicians have tried to figure it out. But newspapers, both print and online, are too complex for any one solution.

Recently, Google’s Chief Economist, Hal Varian, weighed in on the topic during a Federal Trade commission (FTC) meeting. (FWIW: The FTC was looking for answers.)

When we last spoke with Jim Gaines, we talked about the future of digital publishing. Recently we had the opportunity to catch up with Gaines again. This time, he had a story to tell.

Would you pay for your newspaper online? Probably not your average teen, who doesn't seem to even know what a newspaper is. If they don't read them now is there really a need to preserve their content for the future?

FLYP is more than a magazine. Its dynamic, interactive insights about American and world culture engage users through a variety of text, video, audio and animation and have proven to be a journalistic endeavor that turns news and information into a multimedia experience.

FLYP has been described as Life Magazine for the Web 2.0 era so it’s only fitting that Jim Gaines, former managing editor of People, Time and Life magazines is editor-in-chief. A veteran news journalist, Gaines is committed to multimedia initiatives and advocates for experimentation and change within the digital publishing landscape.

We had the opportunity to talk with Mr. Gaines about the future of digital publishing. He shared many insights about how the web publishing industry can best position themselves in the New Year and what he considers to be important in the years ahead.

This week newspapers and their journalists get kicked in the shins. Many unfavorable reports depict the state of journalism as lowly and despicable, slow to change and as a result withering in the spotlight of social media.

Back in October, the New York Times created and released a Campaign Finance API (Application Programming Interface). Designed to let users analyze and re-use some of the data the NYT had been looking at while reporting on the presidential campaign, the API offered overall figures for presidential candidates, as well as state-by-state and ZIP code totals for specific candidates. They also launched a movie API, which allows users to search New York Times movie reviews by keyword and get lists of NYT Critics' Picks.

Now the Times has released a new API offering every article the paper has written since 1981 -- 2.8 million articles.