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In a time when media companies are launching new websites by the hundreds, NYTimes.com and IHT.com — the International Herald Tribune — are considering merging into a single site. One of the ideas is the international edition of NYTimes.com will carry both brands with expanded IHT.com content.
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Leave it to TechCrunch to spot and note a potential change to Yahoo’s logo.
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Google News isn’t growing nearly as fast as the rest of Google - or competitors in its field. GN is currently the #8 most popular news site, despite that prime link on Google.com. The site’s growth rate over the past two years is only about 10% - while sites like MSNBC.com grew more than 42% over the same period. I use GN quite a bit - and am generally a big fan. But its home screen never gets my attention, I only use the search function to hit up major keywords each day. When the AP decided to resell our content to Google News, I became a public critic. The New York Times takes a dive into the interesting relationship Google News has with news sites - which want the traffic, but are afraid of the end result.
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CNN.com rolled out a new site for Anderson Cooper 360°. The site is centered around the show’s blog, and also has an archive of regular features from the show. I’ll have to subtract a few points though: Clicking on the “video” tab takes you to the generic CNN.com/video page, where finding clips from AC360 is next to impossible.
Also: A regular feature will be “TV Talk” where some of the behind-the-scenes words we use will be explained. The first entry is “crashing.” Lost Remote used to have an exhaustive list of TV terms and their meaning. I can’t find it - but maybe Cory will come along and link us up.
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Microsoft might not have that big stake in MSNBC-TV anymore… but once in a while the computer giant still finds a way to have an impact on the cable channel (via Inside Cable News)
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- Obama, McCain still not spending much on online advertising
- Orlando Sentinel first to launch Tribune’s new (newspaper) design (Update: Here’s the front page.)
- Comcast’s Fandango buys Movies.com from Disney
- Seattle’s Fisher Broadcasting rejects $383 million buyout offer
- Nokia buys location-aware social networking service Plazes
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Last week an Internet Broadcasting employee edited Wikipedia with information on Tim Russert’s death before the news went wide. Now IB has fired the employee, according to the NY Times. An NBC News spokesperson said she and her colleagues were “flabbergasted” at the edit. NBC asked the other networks to hold the news until they could notify Russert’s family.
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Topeka’s WIBW.com attracted 1.1 million page views on 136,000 unique users when the tornados hit earlier this month — not bad considering the market has only 117,000 households. The GM at WIBW is so sold on the web, he covered up the word “TV” in the big “WIBW” sign in front of the station. (TVNewsday free registration required.)
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Good cover story in Broadcasting & Cable looks at the decline of investigative reporting, in part due to constricting TV news budgets, fewer hours of magazine shows on the air and a reluctance to take legal risks.
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And it’s a little different than you might expect. Full-length episodes of some ABC shows are now appearing on Veoh, but when you click the player to watch, it links you off to ABC’s player (example). The deal involves ABC paying Veoh for the referrals, reports PaidContent. Only the shorter-form clips will be physically hosted on Veoh — the rest will link to ABC.com.
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Tom Brokaw has volunteered to take over as the host of “Meet the Press” through the end of the election year. “When Tom proposed this idea, we jumped at it,” NBC News President Steve Capus told the NY Times, adding: “It was a huge relief. It offers us some time.”
Personally, I can’t think of a better journalist to take the helm. Brokaw takes over on June 29th. Press release follows below…
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Huffington Post will launch local news sites in “dozens of cities,” with Chicago as the first stop. “We are aspiring to be a newspaper in that we want to covering all news, not just the political blogging the way we began,” said Arianna Huffington. The Chicago site, to start, will be run by a single editor.
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Seems rather intuitive that online video is taking away from TV’s “share of screen,” but here’s the data. Among people who download and/or watch video online, the percentage of video viewed on TV has dropped from 75 to 70 percent over the last year. Video on a computer has climbed from 11 to 19 percent. Among 18-24 year olds, 27 percent of their viewing is on a computer. As Lost Remote commenter “tdc” said in an earlier post, you’re starting to hear people say they “watched it online” instead of “watched it on TV” more frequently. Says Adam Wright, Director at Ipsos MediaCT, “These share gains in non-traditional video channels (are) not simply an isolated, generation-driven market effect, but rather a large macro-trend in the way consumers want their video content delivered.”
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News aggregator Topix is beefing up its local presence with deals with Eventful (events), InfoUSA (local business directory), Zap2it (movies and TV), LiveDeal (pet classifieds), Apartments.com and Informa Research (mortgage data.) It seems that Topix, which powers discussion forums for several local media companies, wants to become the one-stop-shopping of local.
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Freshly-hatched VideoIsNow focuses on one topic: monetizing web video. Video Is Now also includes a widget to check out video ads in action. Speaking of, it led me to something from ‘07 but new-to-me: NPR theme song guy B.J. Leiderman’s video ad, which looks to be produced on the cheap.
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CBS is rolling out the rest of its owned-and-operated stations in the widget-powered ad network for local bloggers. (Our original story here). Click through below for the press release from KYW-TV explaining the new network…
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Read this round-up from PaidContent (on the heels of the McClatchy layoffs a few days ago and the Hearst CEO stepping down) and you’ll feel like pouring yourself a stiff drink. It’s all very sad.
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The Associated Press has issued a vague statement surrounding its bizarre attempt to remove short excerpts of its content from the Drudge Retort. It says the AP provided additional content to the Drudge Retort “aimed at enabling Mr. Cadenhead to bring the contributed content on his site into conformance with the policy he earlier set for his contributors. Both parties consider the matter closed.” The statement goes on to say that the AP spoke with some bloggers about it, and the “resolution of the matter illustrates that the interests of bloggers can be served while still respecting the intellectual property rights of news providers.” Meanwhile, everyone continues to beat up on the AP — TechCrunch is even issuing the AP a takedown order for a TechCrunch quote that appeared on the wire. And the LA Times published an opinion saying the AP “pulled a Metallica online,” which is to say, illustrated its “cluelessness about the internet.”
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The Mozilla Project logged 8,290,545 downloads of the brand new Firefox 3 in just 24 hours. That’s sets a new record for the most software downloads in a single day. So Firefox 3 users, do you like the new version?
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Gannett has invested in Cozi, a social networking tool that lets family members keep a group journal, share photos, organize chores, share calendars and create to do lists. TechCrunch reports the investment is in the $8 million range. “The Cozi investment could help Gannett as it stitches together an ad network of its 60 local mom sites over the next month,” reports PaidContent, which certainly makes sense.
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