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  • Apps: The app genie is out of the bottle. Local news organizations have moved past the stage of merely having an app and are moving on to the tricky challenge of monetizing those apps, and to do that, they will have to build on the momentum of local mobile search, unlock the power of geolocation and push for better app metrics.
  • Daily Deals: Local media companies are turning to white-label platform providers so that they can build their own brand in the marketplace and potentially make more money.

Industry Calendar

5月 2012
19-21
City and Regional Magazine Assoc.
CRMA 2012 Annual Conference
Las Vegas, NV
28
Memorial Day
Holiday
6月 2012
7-9
Association of Alternative Newsmedia
AAN's 35th Annual Convention
Detroit, MI
27
BIA/Kelsey
Mobile Local Media San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
7月 2012
4
Independence Day
Holiday

Net Essentials

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Thu, May 17, 2012

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Providence Old Media Post Slow Digital Start
NetNewsCheck, May 17, 2012, 6:31 AM EDT
In Rhode Island's capital, the traditional media outlets are mired in what one expert calls "an analog mindset," but a number of small independent startups are willing and eager to fill in the gaps in digital coverage left by the market's newspaper and TV stations. Full Story | Add comment
Study: Tablets, Social Help Boost Web Radio
Digital Trends, May 17, 2012, 7:53 AM EDT
The number of Americans listening to Internet radio rose another 8% in the last year, reaching 42%, according to a new study commissioned by TargetSpot. Among those with broadband, 65% listen to Internet radio. Link | Add comment
Gingras: Journo Renaissance Is Starting
Nieman Journalism Lab, May 17, 2012, 7:41 AM EDT
Richard Gingras, head of news products for Google, during a recent appearance at the Nieman Foundation, talked about how newspapers can rethink their approach to distribution, work flows and innovation.
Link | Add comment
Live From Backstage, It's Saturday Night
Lost Remote, May 17, 2012, 7:41 AM EDT
NBC's Saturday Night Live will start streaming 30-second blurbs from backstage via Color, a live streaming app that ties to Facebook, as part of a promotion for Verizon's 4G service. Link | Add comment
Netflix Debuts New Web-Based Video Player
NewTeeVee, May 17, 2012, 8:15 AM EDT
The streaming video and DVD rental company this week rolled out a new version of its browser-based video player. Link | Add comment
Debate Over Journos Learning Code Revived
Poynter, May 17, 2012, 8:15 AM EDT
This week’s debate in the software development community about whether everyone should learn to code — started by developer Jeff Atwood in a post titled “Please don’t learn to code” — shows that journalists aren’t the only ones who have religious wars. Link | Add comment
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Yell Buys Moonfruit To Help Salvage Web Biz
PaidContent, May 17, 2012, 7:41 AM EDT
Yell.com and Yellow Pages operator Yell Group is acquiring U.K.-based point-and-click website builder Moonfruit, as it tries to salvage even digital classifieds that are in reverse. Link | Add comment
Media Audit Revises Local Media Sites List
NetNewsCheck, May 16, 2012, 3:48 PM EDT
The Media Audit today issued a revised version of its annual ranking of top local media websites. The new list adds sites from the Flint-Saginaw, Mich., market, which had inadvertantly been left out of the original list. Full Story | Add comment
Seattle News Site Publicola Ends Its Run
Nieman Journalism Lab, May 16, 2012, 2:25 PM EDT
The site, launched in 2009 by Josh Feit, fromer city reporter for alt-weekly The Stranger, closed its doors last week because ad revenue “has been limited and inconsistent.” Link | Add comment
Q&A With USA Today's Larry Kramer
Kramer Wants More Video For USA Today
Politico, May 16, 2012, 2:03 PM EDT
Incoming USA Today chief Larry Kramer: "I hope to ... freshen and modernize our presentation across all platforms. I want to add more video and bring back more graphics, in print and on digital. And we will do more to increase engagement with our audiences." Link | Add comment
FCC Ponders Regulating OTT Distributors
Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2012, 1:55 PM EDT
In a move that could have far-reaching implications for the development of new distribution systems for content, the Federal Communications Commission is considering changing how it defines a multichannel video programming distributor to add over-the-top providers who distribute programming via the Internet. Link | Add comment
Election 2012
MTV Swaps Citizen Journos For Gamification
Nieman Journalism Lab, May 16, 2012, 2:14 PM EDT
MTV, the Knight Foundation, and a collection of news organizations are teaming up produce a fantasy-football-style election game in an effort to engage with young voters. Link | Add comment
Commentary
Facebook’s Biggest Problem: It’s A Media Co.
GigaOM, May 16, 2012, 3:48 PM EDT
Mathew Ingram: "While Facebook may look like and function like a social network for the majority of its users, on the business side it looks almost exactly like a traditional media company, and that is both good and bad." Link | Add comment
ESPN: No Talks With Apple About WatchESPN
PaidContent, May 16, 2012, 2:08 PM EDT
An ESPN spokesperson denied a Bloomberg report that stated that ESPN and Apple executives are in talks to make the authenticated TV Everywhere app WatchESPN available on Apple TV. Link | Add comment
Industry Voices
The Great Banner Ad Debate
Digiday, May 16, 2012, 3:08 PM EDT
David Cho, publisher of Grantland: "I think it’s hard to argue with the fact that banner advertising, which hasn’t changed at all, really, in the last 10-12 years, is quickly becoming more and more exposed as being sort of flawed in how its conceptualized within the online publishing community." Link | Add comment
Operating System Could Help Digital Ads
GigaOM, May 16, 2012, 1:55 PM EDT
Terence Kawaja, Luma Partners CEO and founder, on standardizing the digital ad world: "Many other industries have benefited greatly by having an operating system, a common platform upon which other companies can build their tools." Link | Add comment
Commentary
Why Google Plus Hasn't Failed
Digiday, May 16, 2012, 3:18 PM EDT
Steve Goldner, senior director of social media at MediaWhiz: "If Google is smart, it will turn Google Plus into more than just a social network. It will augment search and social in a way that establishes a social network/search monster that would radically change — for the better — the search marketing landscape." Link | Add comment
Flipboard Adds Audio, Rolls Out In Japan
TechCrunch, May 16, 2012, 7:36 AM EDT
The personalized news reader has added audio in its latest update, integrating National Public Radio, Public Radio International and social sound platform SoundCloud, and has debuted the app in Japan. Link | Add comment
Twitter Breaks Into TV Dollars With ESPN Deal
Lost Remote, May 16, 2012, 7:05 AM EDT
At ESPN’s upfront presentation Tuesday, the sports network announced a strategic relationship with Twitter to coproduce unique social experiences around larger sports events. Advertisers will be able to buy into ESPN’s properties and the Twitter components in a single integrated buy. Link | Add comment
AP-CNBC Poll
Facebook Trust Low, May Hold Back Ad Sales
Associated Press, May 15, 2012, 7:42 PM EDT
According to a new poll from the Associated Press and CNBC, 59% of adults who use Facebook don't trust it when it comes to privacy issues, which limits the value of the site's ads. Full Story | Add comment
BBC To Stream All 2,500 Hours Of Olympics
PaidContent, May 16, 2012, 7:59 AM EDT
The BBC has announced its plans to stream every moment of the summer's London Olympic Games to smartphones, tablets, PCs and connected TVs at bbc.co.uk/sport.
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At NY Weekly, Online News Comes With Fee
The New York Times, May 16, 2012, 6:58 AM EDT
The Wave in Queens, N.Y., one of New York City's oldest newspapers, has had a functional paywall in place since 2003, but it has kept the price low because the newspaper is not looking to online revenue for its long-term salvation. Link | Add comment
Kramer Will Get To Apply Newsroom Theories
Poynter, May 16, 2012, 8:19 AM EDT
Larry Kramer, USA Today's new publisher, hasn't had a newspaper job since 1991, but he has been writing about how newspapers have squeezed out investigative reporting and their need for new business models. Link | Add comment
Bug Caused Survey Wall To Stop Reader
Poynter, May 16, 2012, 8:19 AM EDT
Scott Kidder, director of editorial operations at Gawker Media, ran up against Adweek's survey wall in a story that was shared on Google Plus, essentially asking him to share a story before he read it. Google's reponse: It was a bug. Link | Add comment
Facebook Raises IPO Price As Offering Nears
Associated Press, May 15, 2012, 7:27 PM EDT
Facebook on Tuesday increased the planned price range for its stock to $34 to $38 per share in a filing with the SEC. That's up from its previous range of $28 to $35. At the upper limit of $38, the sale would raise about $12.8 billion. Full Story | Add comment

More News

A Twitter News Map Of Great Britain
Guardian, May 17, 2012, 8:15 AM EDT
Turner Invests In Video Site Funny Or Die
Lost Remote, May 17, 2012, 7:24 AM EDT
Sesame Street App Helps Potty Train Kids
PaidContent, May 16, 2012, 3:30 PM EDT
Berkshire Hathaway Invests In Viacom
Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2012, 9:39 AM EDT
Consumer Electronics Association study
Consumers Favor Watching Video Fare On TV
MediaPost, May 16, 2012, 9:36 AM EDT
Ex-WGN Anchor Roy Leonard Launches Blogs
Robert Feder, May 16, 2012, 9:35 AM EDT
LA Times Magazine Is Shutting Down
Fishbowl LA, May 16, 2012, 9:25 AM EDT
Storify To Translate Site Into Arabic
The Next Web, May 16, 2012, 8:24 AM EDT
Bowker: One-Third Of Brits Now eReading
The Bookseller, May 16, 2012, 8:04 AM EDT
News Int. Phone Hacking Scandal
Brooks Attacks Police, Prosecutors Over Charges
The Independent, May 16, 2012, 7:42 AM EDT
News Int. Phone Hacking Scandal
Brooks Case: Profiles Of The 5 Others Charged
Guardian, May 16, 2012, 7:39 AM EDT
Dentist Revenge Hoax Shows How Not To Correct
The Washington Post, May 16, 2012, 7:35 AM EDT
New York City Now Fastest-Growing Tech Hub
Mashable, May 16, 2012, 7:22 AM EDT

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  • Mobile And The Media's Imploding Biz Model

    Michael Wolff: "If the news business on the Web is depressing, contributing to the existential angst that has gripped every established news organization, mobile turns the story apocalyptic: there is no foreseeable basis on which the news establishment can support itself. There is no way even a stripped-down, aggregation-based, unpaid citizen-journalist staffed newsroom can support itself in a mobile world."

  • WashPo Ombud's Paywall Analysis Is Faulty

    Ryan Chittum: "You can't compare nine months of circulation-revenue changes to 12 months of ad-revenue changes and then say the former 'didn't even cover the decline in the latter.' That's like giving somebody a 100 meter headstart in the 400 meters and then talking about how the laggard couldn't even compete, even though they ran faster than the rest of the field."

  • The 'Sharing' Mirage

    Frédéric Filloux on the benefits and pitfalls of teaming up with content distributors: "Media should be very careful with their level of reliance on other content distributors such as Facebook, Google, Apple or Amazon. This can be summed up to a simple question: can we trust them?The short answer is no."

  • Paywalls Open Doors For Local News Sites

    Howard Owens: "As a matter of business reality, when an incumbent business moves deeper into sustaining innovation it opens up opportunities for disruptors. In every market where a newspaper puts up a paywall, an opportunity is created for an entrepreneur to start a local online news business."

  • For Future Of News, Killer App Is Credibility

    Robert Hernandez, an assistant professor of professional practice in journalism at USC Annenberg: "With technology empowering everyone with the ability to create and to distribute, I predict — and wish — that in 2012 the new dominating factor will be Credibility. Actually, earned Credibility."

  • Layoffs, Cutbacks Lead To News Deserts

    Tom Stites: "Desertification is on the march, claiming more and more communities as newspapers continue to wither and few Web efforts manage to replace more than a fraction of the original reporting that newspapers have abandoned."

  • Moneyball: Fixing Newspaper Web Sales

    Mel Taylor: "Today's Newspaper industry is like that once great, but now struggling baseball team playing on a new, hyper-competitive field called the Internet. The veteran print team is stuck in a rut using the same, tired strategy that did serve them well for years, but no longer. Today, they get trounced by those with more money and muscle."

  • The Metric For Missed Expectations

    Matthew Shanahan: "Here’s the problem: [Click-through rates don't] take into account audience engagement, not to mention the fact that other advertisers are competing for the click-through on the same page."

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