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Industry Calendar

2月 2012
27-29
SNPA, Inland Press Association, Local Media Association, and Texas Press Association.
Key Executives Mega-Conference
San Antonio, TX
3月 2012
13-15
American Cable Association
ACA’s 19th Annual Summit
Washington, D.C., DC
4月 2012
13
National Association of Broadcasters
NABShow
Las Vegas, NV

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Shirky: Paywalls Will Live On Core Audience
NPR, Feb 3, 2012, 12:05 PM EST
Clay Shirky: "In fact, what [The New York Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune and Chicago Sun Times] are doing, and I think an increasing number of papers are copying them, is saying we will never get a majority or even a sizable minority of our readers to pay us directly, but we can design a system in which some of our most passionate, engaged readers pay us directly, and the rest of the readers, the casual readers, we can keep around for the advertising revenue." Listen to the full interview here .   Link | Add comment
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
Advertisers' Free Ride May End On Facebook
The Wall Street Journal, Feb 3, 2012, 3:01 PM EST
For years, many advertisers simply set up shop for free on Facebook, displaying their brands to users who "liked" them. But the social network wants advertisers to stop relying on free marketing and start spending on ads. Link | Add comment
Facebook IPO
Facebook, Graham Have Been Very Close
Forbes, Feb 3, 2012, 2:35 PM EST
Facebook's IPO filing also revealed just how close the relationship between the social network and founder Mark Zuckerberg's friend Washington Post Co. CEO Donald Graham is. Graham, who has been a member of Facebook's board since 2008, holds 1 million shares of Facebook stock. Link | Add comment
Election 2012
Twitter Sets Up Account Aimed At Journos
The Next Web, Feb 3, 2012, 2:54 PM EST
The micro-messaging service has set up an official account called @TwitterForNews that says it will be “Spotlighting best practices and innovative uses of Twitter by journalists and newsrooms.” Link | Add comment
Seeing Super Bowl Ads Before The Coin Toss
The New York Times, Feb 3, 2012, 12:05 PM EST
Advertisers placed many Super Bowl spots on YouTube or social media well ahead of the game, hoping to start a conversation and generate follow-up interest. Link | Add comment
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Could Pinterest Follow Yelp On Local Path?
Street Fight, Feb 3, 2012, 3:09 PM EST
Alex Salkever: "I am fairly certain, however, that a class of local [Pinterest users] will begin to emerge who have followers and who specialize either in a city or a part of a city and, most likely, down to a specific specialty. And this will happen because pinterest is an extension of blogging and tweeting, really." Link | Add comment
Manufacturing Concerns Delaying Apple TV
DigiTimes, Feb 3, 2012, 12:05 PM EST
The chance is low for Apple to launch so-called iTV products in the second quarter of 2012 as there are no signs indicating that Sharp is ready to ship IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) panels to Apple, according to industry sources. Link | Add comment
Commentary: Facebook IPO
Social Web Is The New King
All Things Digital, Feb 3, 2012, 3:12 PM EST
Michael Jones, CEO of tech studio Science: "Now that Facebook has gone public, I think we can call the era of Web 2.0 over. The Social Web is taking its rightful place as the new King." Link | Add comment
Nonprofits Bay Citizen, CIR In Merger Talks
The Wall Street Journal, Feb 3, 2012, 7:45 AM EST
San Francisco-based nonprofit news site The Bay Citizen is in the early stages of merger talks with another nonprofit news organization, the Center for Investigative Reporting, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Link | Add comment
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
Commentary: Facebook IPO
Does Facebook Have A Local Future?
BIA/Kelsey, Feb 3, 2012, 7:20 AM EST
Jed Williams: "Facebook has never shown the propensity to build a sales force of the mass and scope necessary to exhaustively address local markets and SMBs. Even its deals play was an aggregated approach through partners. However, it does collect much of its advertising revenues from small and mid-market businesses that self-serve on the platform." Link | Add comment
Yahoo Steals NYT Columnist Heffernan
Politico, Feb 3, 2012, 8:26 AM EST
In its most high-profile move since announcing the expansion of its political coverage, Yahoo News has hired former New York Times columnist Virginia Heffernan as its national correspondent. Link | Add comment
Bay Citizen Site 'Expired'
NetNewsCheck, Feb 3, 2012, 7:59 AM EST
A check of Bay area nonprofit news site The Bay Citizen on Friday morning found the site disabled with this message from Web hosting company GoDaddy.com, "This domain name expired on 02/02/2012 and is pending renewal or deletion."
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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
ConnecTV Rolls Out Social TV Service
Lost Remote, Feb 2, 2012, 4:35 PM EST
ConnecTV, a social TV partnership of more than 200 local TV stations, today launched online and for the iPad, providing synchronized content and conversations around what is on TV. 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

More News

The Day You’ll Know Social TV Has Arrived
Lost Remote, Feb 3, 2012, 3:14 PM EST
News Int. Phone Hacking Scandal
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PaidContent, Feb 3, 2012, 3:08 PM EST
Mobile Designers Not Pushing Back Against HTML5
ReadWriteWeb, Feb 3, 2012, 3:04 PM EST
Reuters UK Staff Vote For First Strike In 25 Years
Guardian, Feb 3, 2012, 11:43 AM EST
Data Shows Boost From Year-Old Gawker Redesign
The Next Web, Feb 3, 2012, 8:53 AM EST
Viacom Content Deal Expected To Be With Amazon
The Hollywood Reporter, Feb 3, 2012, 8:51 AM EST
News Corp. Taps Lex Fenwick To Head Dow Jones
The Hollywood Reporter, Feb 3, 2012, 8:48 AM EST
307 Sports Domains Siezed Ahead Of Super Bowl
Wired, Feb 3, 2012, 8:44 AM EST
NY Times: Search For CEO Still In Early Stages
Capital New York, Feb 3, 2012, 7:31 AM EST
SecondScreen Syncs TV Ads, Mobile Apps
AppMarket.tv, Feb 2, 2012, 4:16 PM EST
Subway Sponsors Mobile Game For Bowl Viewers
Mobile Marketer, Feb 2, 2012, 4:02 PM 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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