Michael Wolff, whose two-year-old site, Newser, is frequently cited as a model for the future of journalism, titled a typically provocative blog post yesterday, “I’m Proud to Kill the News.” He made the usual case that news aggregators understand the web better than newspaper websites. Readers, he said, “come to Newser, rather than the New [...]

The Associated Press document we posted yesterday is in line with the consortium’s most bellicose rhetoric on copyright. It begins, “The evidence is everywhere: original news content is being scraped, syndicated and monetized without fair compensation to those who produce, report and verify it.”
Because we obtained the document, the AP put me on the [...]

Is this a new salvo in the Battle of News Aggregation? Michael Wolff, the founder of Newser, says he received a legal threat from The New York Times Company “about two weeks ago” over use of the Times’ logo on his popular news aggregator. In a blistering blog post this morning, Wolff said the Times [...]