Google rolls out mobile display ads

Google is now offering four different display ad units for mobile devices.

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Scripps online newspaper revenue flat

Earlier this month, the Seattle Times said its online revenue dropped 6.5 percent year over year. And today Scripps announced its quarterly revenue, and revenue at its newspaper sites are flat compared to last year, at $10 million. (Scripps’ total interactive revenue was up 23 percent, but fueled by its non-media online properties.) As I’ve said before, local media’s online growth may soon come to a grinding halt unless TV stations and newspapers diversify into new, innovative online products in their local markets.

Related: Online classifieds, vertical ad spending boom predicted

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Not many sites like The Smoking Gun

The Smoking Gun started 11 years ago as a side project at the Village Voice by crime reporter William Bastone, and it’s still cranking away (although now owned by Time Warner.) “I realize it’s still the infancy of the Net, but it amazes me how few places are doing this sort of stuff,” Bastone tells Mark Glaser on Mediashift. “There are a lot of people commenting on stuff and riffing on things and blogging, but actually reporters breaking stories on the Net — there are a lot fewer than I would expect.”

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Top newspapers by ‘time spent’

Only 11 of the top 30 newspaper sites saw an increase in Nielsen-Netrating’s “time spent” metric from March ‘07 to March ‘08. Full list here.

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TV station, newspaper plan morning show

Last month, WSFL announced it would moving into the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s facility. And now the TV station says it plans to launch a morning show with the newspaper. “The goal is for the new show to be a fast-paced, personality-driven, nontraditional news and information format,” writes Tom Jicha in the Sun-Sentinel. “The emphasis will be on local content, much of it supplied by the Sun-Sentinel editorial staff.”

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