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 [...]

I’d never heard this term until Dave Hendricks, who blogs at Attentionization, used it when he wrote about my post regarding what newspapers could learn from the decline in the ice harvesting business. (Read more about how he explains artisanal news in the comments on that post.)
I like the term. So I started to think [...]

It’s happening. Yesterday we revealed Steve Brill’s latest moves toward charging readers of newspaper websites, and separately, Philadelphia Inquirer publisher Brian Tierney said he would erect an online pay wall by the end of the year. Those developments followed similar statements by executives of Hearst Corp. and MediaNews Group, among other newspaper companies.
As these paid-content [...]

— Mario Garcia applauds upcoming changes at Newsweek and says hurrah for more opinion: “Objective journalism, in this case, is more about the accuracy and fairness of the piece, and NOT necessarily in keeping viewpoints out of the mix.”
— Clay Shirky brings the smackdown on micropayments.
— Simon Owens writes about The Printed Blog, which I [...]

— Barry Ritholz writes about Newsweek’s plans to become more like The Economist. He points out the tension inherent in the shift:
…what’s unique about the Economist is that it speaks with one editorial voice. There are no bylines at the Economist…Newsweek, on the other hand, is [a] magazine that can barely contain its internal [...]

— If I worked in local TV news, I wouldn’t like the sound of this, from CBS CEO Les Moonves:
The executive also said that in 10 years, CBS may no longer have traditional affiliated TV stations, but could offer its feed straight to cable and satellite operators. For now, however, the network has contracts [...]