Rick Edmonds
May 16, 2013
1:05 pm
Nieman Journalism Lab | NewsRight
Analyst Ken Doctor reports at Nieman Labs that NewsRight, an industry-owned agency that has tried to license content to aggregators,
has gone out of business.
NewsRight's own
news release describes the dissolution a bit differently saying that its database, existing contracts and brand name will go to
collaborator Moreover and that anti-piracy advocacy will pass to the Newspaper Association of America.
The company's roots were in the AP News Registry, a business development project of the Associated Press. In January 2012, that became NewsRight with AP still lead investor and 28 other newspaper companies taking a stake.
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Joshua Gillin
May 13, 2013
12:54 pm
Fortune | The Atlantic Wire | The New Yorker | TechCrunch | Fast Company
JP Mangalindan
looks at the financial health of Web publishers like The Huffington Post, Gawker Media and BuzzFeed. But of the seven companies listed, the piece includes revenue from only one: $12 million at Business Insider last year, a figure that comes not from the company but from a
New Yorker profile of BI editor Henry Blodget.
Nailing down just how well each company was doing was a challenge from the beginning, Mangalindan told Poynter.
"The vast majority of these companies are private, and as such, aren't obligated to break down or disclose their earnings, even when asked," he wrote in an email. "In the case of HuffPost, it's owned by AOL, a publicly-traded company, however they do not disclose HuffPost's exact revenues and profits in their financial statements."
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Rick Edmonds
May 6, 2013
8:49 am
Talk about digital disruption. The CEO of Australia’s giant Fairfax Media said last week that he is preparing the company to abandon printed newspapers entirely “in three, five or 10 years.”
“Print revenues have been going down and are going … Read more
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Rick Edmonds
Apr. 29, 2013
6:52 am
On Tuesday, the Alliance for Audited Media (formerly ABC) will announce circulation totals for American newspapers, as it has done in regular six-month cycles for as long as I can remember.
I will hazard a guess about the results, but … Read more
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Meena Thiruvengadam
Apr. 24, 2013
6:53 am
Journalism skills and a good idea are essential for bringing your media startup to life — but they don’t entitle you to financial support from a foundation or an investment from a venture-capital firm.
“Assuming that you can get funding … Read more
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Rick Edmonds
Mar. 29, 2013
9:47 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 26, 2013
9:17 am
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Rick Edmonds
Mar. 18, 2013
12:01 am
Newspapers’ fortunes, admittedly from a rock-bottom base, have been looking up lately — Warren Buffett and others have bought papers, digital pay plans are boosting circulation revenue, and new lines of business like digital marketing services are taking root.
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Carlie Kollath Wells
Feb. 20, 2013
7:44 am
Four top publishers Tuesday reaffirmed their commitment to print and discussed revenue ideas for bolstering their products.
The discussion was part of an executive roundtable at the
Key Executives Mega Conference in New Orleans.
The publishers of the Star Tribune Media Co., USA Today, The Omaha World-Herald and The Dallas Morning News talked about the revenue opportunities for their content.
For Jim Moroney at The Dallas Morning News, his company is converting the story archives into revenue through content marketing. Companies in the Dallas area are in need of content to populate company newsletters, websites and blogs, and the paper is making its archives available for customers of its digital agency. Clients’ monthly bills average $4,000 a month for services that include access to the archives.
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Rick Edmonds
Feb. 11, 2013
5:54 am
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