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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
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Memorial Day
Holiday
6月 2012
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7-9
Association of Alternative Newsmedia
AAN's 35th Annual Convention
Detroit, MI
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27
BIA/Kelsey
Mobile Local Media San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
7月 2012
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Independence Day
Holiday
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27-12
Summer Olympics
Holiday

Net Essentials

APM's PIN Launches Reporting Unit
Nieman Journalism Lab, Jan 25, 2012, 2:34 PM EST
American Public Media's nine-year-old networked journalism initiative, Public Insight Network, will start producing original stories based on its database of citizen sources. Link | Add comment
Executive Session with David Kansas
APM Aims For Digital Local News Lead
NetNewsCheck, Dec 12, 2011, 6:38 AM EST
Public radio has established a beachhead in local digital news, hoping to fill the territory left vacant, in part, by the shrinking of daily newspapers. David Kansas, COO and senior VP of American Public Media, spoke to NetNewsCheck about the company’s local journalism efforts, including its Public Insight Network and its recent merger with Spot.us, a crowd-funding hub for journalists. APM is also eyeing opportunities stemming from the expansion of digital media technology in the automobile. Full Story | Add comment
American Public Media Buys Spot.Us
NetNewsCheck, Nov 29, 2011, 2:47 PM EST
[Updated] American Public Media has acquired Spot.Us, a community funding site for journalism. APM will roll the site into its Public Insight Network crowdsourcing platform to create a networked approach to sourcing and funding journalism. 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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