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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.

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Digital DMA
Paywall Not Slowing Milwaukee's JSOnline
NetNewsCheck, May 24, 2012, 6:48 AM EDT
In Milwaukee, the market’s online leader, the Journal Sentinel, implemented its metered paywall in January and so far has seen gains in digital subscriptions and digital ad revenue hold steady. Coupled with new apps as part of its JS Everywhere initiative, the paper is intent upon keeping its grip on Milwaukee’s digital scene. But the region’s TV sites are closing the gap. Full Story | Add comment
NAA To Post Office: Reject Valassis Deal
NetNewsCheck, May 23, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
The Newspaper Association of America Wednesday called for federal postal regulators to reject what it labeled a "sweetheart deal" for one of industry's largest direct-mail competitors. Full Story | Add comment
AppCheck: KMOV
KMOV App Upgrade Keeps Users In Mind
NetNewsCheck, May 22, 2012, 6:34 AM EDT
Belo-owned TV station KMOV in St. Louis has taken the advice of its audience and is rolling out the latest version of its core news app — one of 17 apps in the station's roster — with a reorganized interface and flow geared toward user friendliness. Full Story | Add comment
Site Specific: Imperial Valley Press
IVPressOnline Streaks Past Digital Rivals
NetNewsCheck, May 21, 2012, 6:18 AM EDT
Schurz Communications' Imperial Valley Press has pushed hard into the digital realm, taking advantage of multimiedia content — especially video — and mobile products, including local high school sports updates, making it disproportionately tech-forward compared to the community it covers. Full Story | Add comment
Patch, NY's WPIX Form Content Partnership
NetNewsCheck, May 17, 2012, 2:56 PM EDT
The New York television station will feature the AOL's hyperlocal news network's content on its daily newscasts during new "Patch on PIX" segments. Full Story | Comments (1)
NimbleCommerce, ViralNinjas Team On Viral Effort
NetNewsCheck, May 17, 2012, 11:27 AM EDT
Berkshire Buys Media General Papers
NetNewsCheck, May 17, 2012, 8:54 AM EDT
Berkshire Hathaway is purchasing nearly all of Media General's newspapers, including their websites and other digital products, for $142 million in cash. Full Story | Add comment
BIA/Kelsey Report
Mobile, Web Local Spend To Hit $22B By '16
NetNewsCheck, May 17, 2012, 8:32 AM EDT
Mobile and online local ad spending are expected to grow at a clip of about 14% per year to hit $21.8 billion by 2016, according to BIA/Kelsey’s new Media Ad View reports. Full Story | Add comment
Digital DMA
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 | Comments (2)
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
IB Launches HTML5 Ad Products
NetNewsCheck, May 15, 2012, 2:57 PM EDT
The new group of mobile ad products from Internet Broadcasting brings a rich, “Flash-like” experience to mobile devices with which Flash files are incompatible. Full Story | Add comment
ABCi To Audit Adobe Digital Suite Metrics
NetNewsCheck, May 15, 2012, 2:57 PM EDT
The Audit Bureau of Circulations today announced that it will conduct an audit of the metrics provided by Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite, a software package used by many publishers to produce digital products. Full Story | Add comment
Borrell Associates Survey
Report: Online Co-Op Ads A $1.7B Biz
NetNewsCheck, May 15, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT
According to a new report from Borrell Associates, of about $22.4 billion in available co-op advertising for SMBs in 2012, $1.7 billion will be used online. Full Story | Add comment
USA Today Names Larry Kramer Publisher
NetNewsCheck, May 15, 2012, 8:14 AM EDT
Gannett on Monday announced that it has appointed MarketWatch founder and former CBS Digital Media head Larry Kramer president and publisher of USA Today. Full Story | Add comment
AppCheck: Sales Toolkit
Sales App Streamlines Path To Profit
NetNewsCheck, May 15, 2012, 6:27 AM EDT
Newspaper and radio company Greater Media is putting the iPad to good use, with an app created specifically for its sales team that helps reps cut down on paperwork and boost their time in the field. The app also could stand as an example for other media companies looking to streamline their sales efforts. Full Story | Comments (1)
Scott Thompson Out As Yahoo CEO
NetNewsCheck, May 14, 2012, 6:25 AM EDT
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who joined the struggling Web giant in January and recently became the center of a bitter proxy battle between Yahoo and Third Point LLC, was dismissed on Sunday. Ross Levinsohn, the company's head of global media, was named interim CEO. Full Story | Add comment
Executive Session With Brian Timpone
Journatic: Efficiencies Make Hyperlocal Work
NetNewsCheck, May 14, 2012, 6:11 AM EDT
Last month the Chicago Tribune caused a stir by announcing that it would outsource its TribLocal network to content provider Journatic. The announcement stirred up worries of robotic journalism and content farms. In an exclusive interview with NetNewsCheck, Journatic CEO Brian Timpone explains how his company's process of using algorithms and overseas workers to help gather community news can save publishers millions of dollars by better allocating their newsroom resources. Full Story | Comments (1)
Coming Up:
Monday: Q&A With Journatic's Brian Timpone
NetNewsCheck, May 11, 2012, 2:37 PM EDT
In an exclusive interview with NetNewsCheck, Journatic CEO Brian Timpone explains how his process of using algorithms and overseas workers to help gather community news can save publishers millions of dollars by better allocating their newsroom resources. "The people in the newsroom shouldn't be wasting their time on the things that we're doing," he said. "Really talented news reporters should spend their time leveraging their skills, not gathering youth sports scores and honor rolls and police blotters. That's what we do." Read the full interview here. Full Story | Add comment
Moore, Friedman Named Co-Chairs Of Pulitzer Board
NetNewsCheck, May 10, 2012, 12:56 PM EDT
WashPo's SocialCode Hires Digg Developers
NetNewsCheck, May 10, 2012, 8:34 AM EDT
The Washington Post subsidiary, which provides social media advertising and intelligence, hired several members from the news aggregator Digg. Full Story | Add comment
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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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