Huffington Post:
HARTFORD, Conn. — A small, family-owned Connecticut newspaper sued the state's largest newspaper Thursday, saying it repeatedly plagiarized stories after cutting its own reporting staff to save money.The Journal Inquirer of Manchester accuses the Hartford Courant of "pirating" at least 11 local news stories in August and Se (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
11-14-09 -- Returning workers face steep pay cuts, newspapers need a new model for the online world, Las Vegas is offering deals
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ReadWriteWeb:
Yesterday we wrote about how Demand Media produces 4,000 new pieces of content every day - and whether it can sustain quality at that scale. There was vigorous discussion about the quality issue in the comments, including from some of Demand Media's thousands of freelance writers. In this follow-up post, we look at the type (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
On Wednesday night, Oprah tweeted out a short video previewing her upcoming, much anticipated, interview with Sarah Palin. Oprah wouldn't go into much detail, but she said that she and the former governor of Alaska talked about "everything." Today, CBS has two choice segments from their conversation, set to air Monday, No (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online.In an interview with Sky News Australia, the mogul said that newspapers in his media empire -- including the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal -- would consider blocking Google entirely once (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
CHICAGO — Tribune Co., owner of The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and several other news outlets, will not use most Associated Press content next week to test whether the financially struggling company can do without it, according to a story on the Chicago Tribune's Web site.Tribune said it will use some AP materia (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Googledby Ken AulettaOn a sunny July afternoon in Sun Valley, three friends who had competed and cooperated for a quarter century -- Robert Iger, the CEO of Disney, Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS, and Peter Chernin, then the COO of News Corp -- gathered for sodas. They sat beside a tranquil pond, but their world was not serene (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Saul Friedman, a long-standing Newsday columnist, has quit the paper over its decision to implement a paywall, pointing out that by charging $5/week for readers, they'll drastically cut his audience size (and, presumably, the present and future opportunities that having a large audience afford to a working writer). I doubt (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Beginning Wednesday, most of Newsday.com content will only be available to subscribers of Optimum Online, Newsday, or those willing to pay for it.Those who are not customers of Optimum Online or the newspaper - both owned by Bethpage-based Cablevision Systems Corp. - will have to pay a $5 weekly fee. However Mo (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Yesterday, Barnes & Noble unveiled their new eReader, the Nook. The sleek new model is the latest in a series of new eReaders popping up recently to compete with Amazon's Kindle. Kindle has long held the market on eReaders, but that might not last much longer. On Monday, Spring Design unveiled Alex, the first Google Android (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Barnes & Noble Inc. unveiled a new e-reader device called the Nook on Tuesday afternoon. The bookseller said the device will be available by the end of November at a price of $259 - equal to the Kindle from Amazon.com . The device also allows users to lend e-books to friends for a preiod of u (Read More)
BBC:
Readers rejoice - the revolution is here at last. The digital earthquake that shook the music business really began to make itself felt with the arrival of the iPod. Now a slightly larger rectangular white object threatens to do the same to the publishing and newspaper industries. The Amazon Kindle has left its US home a (Read More)