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February 2012
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27-29
SNPA, Inland Press Association, Local Media Association, and Texas Press Association.
Key Executives Mega-Conference
San Antonio, TX
March 2012
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13-15
American Cable Association
ACA’s 19th Annual Summit
Washington, D.C., DC
April 2012
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13
National Association of Broadcasters
NABShow
Las Vegas, NV

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Internet TV Faces Some Big Obstacles
The Kansas City Star, Feb 3, 2012, 12:05 PM EST
Technology increasingly blurs the lines between computer, television, phone and tablet. Online video options grow almost by the hour. A screen, in the era of cyber choice, is a screen is a screen. Still, to fill your screen with popular sports, comedies and dramas from the brands that dominate your television, generations-old economic models will have to be rearranged for the wild, wild Web. Link | Add comment
Viacom Content Deal Expected To Be With Amazon
The Hollywood Reporter, Feb 3, 2012, 8:51 AM EST
WSJ App Aggregates News, News Judgement
Nieman Journalism Lab, Feb 3, 2012, 7:20 AM EST
Topheadlin.es, an experimental new app from The Wall Street Journal, scans a list of 10 news sources every three minutes and delivers the one top headline from each. Link | Add comment
NYT To Expand Tech, Health Blogs
PaidContent, Feb 2, 2012, 4:35 PM EST
The New York Times is planning to remake its technology blog (Bits) and its health blog along the lines of its DealBook business blog, the company said Thursday. Link | Add comment
HuffPo To Launch Streaming Net In Summer
The Washington Post, Feb 2, 2012, 4:24 PM EST
AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group announced Thursday that it will launch the Huffington Post Streaming Network — which will stream live news video from New York and Los Angeles studios — this summer. Link | Add comment
From The Onion:
HuffPo Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine
The Onion, Feb 2, 2012, 3:32 PM EST
The Guardian Tries Out Immersive Video
Nieman Journalism Lab, Feb 2, 2012, 8:37 AM EST
The Guardian is launching a new experiment in video, partnering with video company Condition One to release full-immersion travel guides. Link | Add comment
The Daily At One: Some Lessons Learned
Digiday Daily, Feb 2, 2012, 8:34 AM EST
A year ago, The Daily launched with much fanfare. News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch declared, "We believe The Daily will be the model for how stories are told and consumed in this digital age." If nothing else, it has proven that the future never travels in a straight line. Link | Add comment
Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself The News
The New York Times, Feb 2, 2012, 8:28 AM EST
The popular social blogging site Tumblr is hiring writers and editors to cover the world of Tumblr. Chris Mohney, a senior VP for content at BlackBook Media, will be the site’s editor in chief. Jessica Bennett, a senior writer and editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, will be the executive editor. Link | Add comment
Digital DMAs
Digital Splits Spur Creativity In San Antonio
NetNewsCheck, Feb 1, 2012, 5:04 PM EST
Break-ups in the Web partnerships of some of the Alamo City's traditional media players have produced three of San Antonio’s top digital outlets. The splits have also sparked some creative social and mobile efforts around San Antonio's music scene and beloved Spurs basketball team. Full Story | Add comment
WSJ Rolls Out New YouTube Channel
Fishbowl NY, Feb 1, 2012, 3:38 PM EST
The Wall Street Journal will roll out live episodes of on-demand news and business videos on its own YouTube channel starting Monday, Feb. 6. Link | Add comment
NY Times Launches Online Business Show
Feb 1, 2012, 3:29 PM EST
The newspaper's new video program "Business Day Live" will broadcast live from the Times newsroom and appear on NYTimes.com every weekday morning. Full Story | Add comment
YouTube Mulls Subscription Service
NewTeeVee, Feb 1, 2012, 11:42 AM EST
YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar said his company could potentially create a service that could enable content providers to create their own subscription-based video offerings on the YouTube platform. Link | Add comment
Google To Censor Blogs Country-By-Country
Wired, Feb 1, 2012, 11:19 AM EST
Google has quietly announced changes to its Blogger free-blogging platform that will enable the blocking of content only in countries where censorship is required. Link | Add comment
NewsCheckMedia Expands Server Capacity
NetNewsCheck, Feb 1, 2012, 7:38 AM EST
NewsCheckMedia quadrupled its server capacity last evening to ensure smooth operations even during periods of peak traffic. The expansion, completed by midnight on Jan. 31, came just hours after the company’s two continuously updated news websites, NetNewsCheck.com and TVNewsCheck.com, experienced brief outages resulting from too many readers trying to access a story, Agile Alt Media Adapting to Digital Challenge. As always, the tech team at Rackspace did us proud in getting the sites back online after only a few minutes and in upgrading our capacity just a few hours later. Congratulations to NetNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp on a terrific story. We promise the next one won't bring the house down. | Comments (1)
New App Is Home To Long-Form Journalism
Capital New York, Feb 1, 2012, 7:51 AM EST
Longform.org is launching a new iPad app that cuts out ads and pageview-churning links and offers evidence that there is a growing appetite for longform journalism on digital platforms. Link | Add comment
Commentary
Super Bowl Simultaneously Killing, Saving TV
The Atlantic Wire, Jan 31, 2012, 3:54 PM EST
Rebecca Greenfield: "A quality NFL experience makes cable worthwhile for many fans. It's also why ESPN knows it can charge more. ... But, it's also that very mentality has not-so-crazy about sports subscribers ditching for the Web." Link | Add comment
Indy Star Plans To Enhance Bowl Coverage
Poynter, Jan 31, 2012, 3:32 PM EST
The Super Bowl is set for Indianapolis this weekend and the hometown newspaper, The Indianapolis Star is planning on using visuals, Web galleries and multimedia to enhance its coverage. Link | Add comment
Radio Streamer Slacker Expands Hispanic Offering
Radio-Info, Jan 31, 2012, 12:26 PM EST
Three Founders Out At Demand Media
PaidCiontent, Jan 31, 2012, 8:06 AM EST
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  • 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."

  • You Should Only Work This Hard If You Own The Business

    Howard Owens, digital media pioneer and author of HowardOwens.com, writes on Patch editors: "But here’s the thing about the work load for Patch editors: They’re not owners. They are expected to do all of the things they would have to do if they owned their own web sites, but merely in service of building wealth for AOL shareholders. Sure, work hard and keep your job is a nice benefit, and as a former corporate employee I think employees have an ethical obligation to help build shareholder value. That’s what they’re paid to do. ... However, if what we’re hearing is true about the Patch workload, I can only ask: Why are you doing it?"

  • 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."

  • Debate Over Naming Commenters Rages On

    Eric Pfanner on real-name commenting policies: "The complications are enormous. Even self-contained Internet services like Facebook have had difficulty enforcing 'real name' systems. To achieve this on the borderless Internet would be impossible."

  • Communities Lose Out When Papers Close

    Author Ken Doctor on MediaNews Group's decision to consolidate its Bay Area newspapers: "It isn’t simply the sad loss of middle-class journalism jobs, as lamentable as that is, just as so many other good jobs that have disappeared in recent years. It’s a community loss, and points to the wider impact of news cuts on the society in which we live. That’s often forgotten as we focus too narrow on industry loss."

  • Why AOL Should Double Down On Patch

    Maxwell Wessel, member of Harvard Business School think tank Forum for Growth, on AOL's Patch: "Patch is AOL's last, best chance to build a growth engine. Investors shouldn't be calling for AOL to back off the business. They should be calling for AOL to double down ... by increasing commitment."

  • News Orgs Should Use Innovation As A Tool

    Frédéric Filloux: "News organizations ... should view innovation as their main weapon against direct competitors and emerging players such as tech startups."

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