For those keeping track of such things, take note: Journalism is about to get its first low-profit, limited liability corporation company, or L3C.
The new Chicago News Cooperative, unveiled on Thursday by former Chicago Tribune managing editor Jim O’Shea, will begin life as a nonprofit, but will change over to an L3C after Jan. 1, when [...]

A very quick lesson in search engine optimization: Brent Payne, the Tribune Co.’s head of SEO, whose wisdom I wrote about last week, posted a video yesterday demonstrating a new feature in Google Webmaster Tools. In the process, he offered a brief glance at The Chicago Tribune’s dashboard on the site, pictured above. What you’re [...]

Like many, I was disappointed to read Friday that the editorial team behind Chi-Town Daily News was giving up on its nonprofit business model in order to launch a new, as-yet-unnamed, for-profit news site about city news. In a blog post, editor Geoff Dougherty says the reason was that CTDN simply couldn’t raise enough cash [...]

Last month, I wrote about how The Associated Press plans to leverage its network of members and customers with centralized topic pages linked to content distributed by the consortium. That post has sprung at least three noteworthy legs:

an intelligent comments thread on Wikipedia’s strength in search results
some informed skepticism of automated pages from Reuters’ Felix [...]

Yesterday we revealed plans by The Associated Press to hold back some content from member websites. (Great discussion going on there, by the way.) The primary motivation of that initiative is search: AP material that resides on hundreds of disparate sites at the same time will hardly rate in Google compared to a single page [...]

With no live programming in the morning, MLB Network had to scramble to assemble its crew after the bombshell broke Feb. 7: Sports Illustrated’s Selena Roberts and David Epstein were reporting that Alex Rodriguez had tested positive for steroids in 2003 as a member of the Texas Rangers. But within a few hours, MLB Network [...]

Nothing spreads faster than a good link. We’ve posted more than 80 links related to new media on our Twitter feed this week, and here’s a roundup of the most popular, interesting, and/or important ones:
— Technorati released a list of websites to which blogs most frequently link, and it’s dominated by traditional news media. The [...]

Yesterday we named the top 15 newspaper sites of 2008 (judging by average monthly unique visitors) and took a closer look at the five national papers that lead the list. In the next tier are six regional newspaper sites that showed impressive growth last year.

The data is in, and we’re ready to declare the top 15 newspaper websites of 2008! It was a hard-fought battle in a year that saw visitors to all newspaper sites rise by 12.1 percent from the year prior. We’ve ranked the top 15 by average monthly unique visitors, according to Nielsen Online, which is [...]

News that The Chicago Tribune is including “attitude” as an employee evaluation metric has made Romenesko.
This is a surprise? In so many ways, attitude is everything, more important often than skills or even experience. It doesn’t substitute for them, of course, but it can accelerate the learning curve significantly.
That said, I think Romenesko buries the [...]