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Online ad revenues up, sponsored content revenues down in 2012

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:35:42 +0000

Revenues from digital advertising reached nearly $37 billion in 2012, the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s annual report says, up 15 percent over 2011. Mobile advertising accounted for 9 percent of the total. Display advertising … Read more

Developer explains why it’s more fun to work at a newspaper than Google

Jeff Sonderman — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:25:02 +0000

Chicago Tribune
Abe Epton shares what he likes about working for the Chicago Tribune’s news apps team after five years at Google News:

I think people interested in code and civic society should really think about joining a newspaper —
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Boston Globe gives iPads to classrooms, reimagines NIE for the digital age

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:06:13 +0000

The Boston Globe is giving iPads, projectors and free Boston Globe digital subscriptions to local public school classrooms in a digitally reimagined version of the Newspapers In Education program.

A major goal of longstanding NIE efforts has been to hook … Read more

Patriot-News, Post-Standard will reduce print frequency to three days a week

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:33:05 +0000

Pennlive | Syracuse.com
The (Harrisburg, Pa.) Patriot-News, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Penn State scandal, and The (Syracuse, N.Y.) Post-Standard are following their corporate siblings in Alabama and New Orleans to a reduced printing … Read more

Recovering newspapermen recount industry’s path from innovative to ‘obsolete’

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:40:56 +0000

Recovering Journalist | International Business Times | American Legion Magazine
Mark Potts writes a what-might-have-been essay, tracing the rise and stall of digital innovation at The Washington Post in the 1990s. It begins with a 1992 memo from then-Washington … Read more

Study: Tablet users more likely to buy magazines, e-books than news, newspapers

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:57:26 +0000

Online Publishers Association
New research published today answers some key questions about what kinds of content tablet users consume, and what they’re willing to buy.

The survey, funded by the Online Publishers Association, finds that 61 percent of tablet users … Read more

600 newspaper layoffs in one day is, unfortunately, not a record

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:06:39 +0000

Does Tuesday’s massive layoff of 600 in a single day at four Advance Publications newspapers in New Orleans and Alabama earn a place in newspaper-layoff history?

Sadly, no.

News organizations have announced other job reductions of even larger or similar size … Read more

The one chart that should scare the hell out of print media

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:26:48 +0000

Scribd | All Things D
Venture capitalist Mary Meeker presented her annual analysis of Internet trends Wednesday at the D10 conference, and among the dozens of charts is this one showing the steep imbalance between where people spend their time … Read more

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette launches redesign after months of beta testing

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:33:42 +0000

Post-Gazette | Brian Rossi
A clean, bright, color-coded design for post-gazette.com was tested and honed over months of beta testing and public feedback, and on Tuesday it became official. What did the paper learn from its testing period?

Web designers
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76 newspapers that are on Pinterest

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:12:43 +0000

76 newspapers (and counting) are on Pinterest… Read more