All entries tagged: New York Times

The Newsonomics of emerging news video

The Newsonomics are these:

* Make more licensing income off the video.
* Better usage of companies’ own produced video (and partnered video) on their own websites, apps, and tablets. Video still produces among the highest effective ad prices, well into the double digits for premium brands.
*Put your content into new marketplaces.

No comments | Posted by Ken Doctor | March 18, 2010 | 1:00 pm

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This Week in Review: Plagiarism and the link, location and context at SXSW, and advice for newspapers

[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
The Times, plagiarism and the link: A few weeks ago, the resignations of two journalists from The Daily Beast and The New York Times accused of plagiarism had us talking about how [...]

This Week in Review: Surveying the online news scene, web-first mags, and Facebook patents its feed

[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
The online news landscape defined: Much of the discussion about journalism this week revolved around two survey-based studies. I’ll give you an overview on both and the conversation that surrounded them.
The first [...]

The Newsonomics of time-on-site

[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.]
Parse out the numbers, and they’re quite puzzling.
The average news reader spends little time on newspaper-owned sites, from a 20 minutes a month [...]

What the Times-NYU partnership says about the future of journalism education: A Q&A with Jay Rosen

When The New York Times and New York University announced last week that they would collaborate on a news site covering the East Village neighborhood, it got me thinking: Beyond Manhattan, what could this mean for the future of journalism education?
While it’s true that this isn’t the first pro-academic partnership — even the Times already [...]

This Week in Review: The Times’ blogs behind the wall, paid news on the iPad, and a new local news co-op

[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
A meter for the Times’ blogs: Plenty of stuff happened at the intersection of journalism and new media this week, and for whatever reason, a lot of it had something to do [...]

The Newsonomics of profit: Google’s and newspapers’

day.

For Google, its profit has allowed it to lay the groundwork for that growth. Its financial performance is hugely impressive today, but almost all of its revenue has been based on desktop/laptop paid search. As many have said, it’s a one-trick pony, but with the best trick found in the 21st century digital business. It knows that business is maturing, so we can see the theme in its a company-a-month buying spree: mobile, social, video. That combo, what I call the new trifecta for this digital decade, anticipates where digital use — and ad spending — is going. Google is not only providing us pictures of our topography through StreetView, it is laying new roads for its own highly profitable future.

“Burbling blips” & “pyramiding”: What does the Google-China story tell us about how news spreads?

Posts like yesterday’s by my Nieman Lab colleague Jonathan Stray make my academic heart flutter. Stray’s analysis looked at coverage of the latest Google-China developments and found that only 11 percent of the 100-plus news sources did “original reporting” on the issue.
It should join the growing list of reports — from the six year [...]

The Google/China hacking case: How many news outlets do the original reporting on a big story?

We often talk about the new news ecosystem — the network of traditional outlets, new startups, nonprofits, and individuals who are creating and filtering the news. But how is the work of reporting divvied up among the members of that ecosystem?
To try to build a datapoint on that question, I chose a single big story [...]

38 comments | Posted by Jonathan Stray | February 24, 2010 | 10:00 am

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This Week in Review: iPad news apps emerge, plagiarism on the web, and a first for citizen journalism

[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
Building news apps for the iPad: The buzz from the tech crowd about Apple’s iPad has died down, but the iPad is beginning to get more interesting for the journalism world. That’s [...]

The iPad business model for news: Strategies publishers must embrace

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in the journosphere about what newspapers ought to be doing vis-a-vis the iPad. If publishers adopt their usual defensive stance and take a slow approach, they’ll miss the iPad boat. Or the iPad rocketship, as the case may be.
Kenneth Li of the Financial Times reports that “Newspaper and magazine [...]

What should news apps on the iPad look like? John-Henry Barac on space & touch in digital news design

When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad last month, there were immediate debates over what kind of impact it would have on both the news habits of consumers and the bottom lines of news organizations. But one thing seemed obvious: that the iPad would be a glorious playground for user-interface designers, information architects, and others who [...]

Coupons make a comeback: redemption up 27%

Back in my college days, it only took a few Thursdays at the school paper to learn a newspaper-business lesson: Readers love coupons. Thursday was the day the UCSD Guardian had its package of deals ($1 off at Golden Spoon!), and issues flew off the racks.
But outside the world of undergrads hunting for a froyo [...]

4 comments | Posted by Laura McGann | February 10, 2010 | 1:00 pm

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Is online news just ramen noodles? What media economics research can teach us about valuing paid content

The New York Times’ announcement that it would be charging for some access to its website, starting in 2011, rekindled yet another round of debate about paywalls for online news. Beyond the practical question (will it work?) or the theoretical one (what does this mean for the Times’ notion of the “public”?), there remains another [...]

This Week in Review: What the iPad might do for news, a leaky New York Times paywall, and the Newsday 35

[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s news about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
The iPad’s big reveal: Apple unveiled its new tablet — the unfortunately named iPad — on Wednesday, a week before the Super Bowl, and the buzz was as least as big: The Internet practically broke [...]