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“What Borrell found was cumulative local online revenues of $7.5 billion, with 31.6 percent growth (compared to 20.7 percent for national online advertising). Within the local ecosystem, newspapers account for 35.9 percent”
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“From zines to blogs, pirate radio to podcasts, independent filmmaking to video journals, immersive fiction to sms text message campaigns to machinima, the tools and methods are proliferating.”
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” Each newspaper has a single newsroom and Handelsblad produces two separate newspapers in it, Die Welt produces five titles. The future of integration is here – and it works.”
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“Media companies have high hopes that hyperlocal news online will bolster their newspapers’ futures. But early returns suggest the financial outlook for such ventures is not bright.”
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“Paul Farhi, writing in AJR, wonders if hyperlocal journalism can pay. Easy answer: Of course it can.”
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‘WashingtonPost.com has soft-launched “Local Explorer, ” which allows users to map crime, home sales and school information by zip code. It is a great model for “mapped journalism”.’
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“Explore Washington-area Communities – Police and fire stations, restaurants, bars, hospitals and more, plus: Facts & Figures, Local News from The Post, Community Resources, Classifieds”
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Latest version of Movable Type
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“MT4 boasts over 50 new features and “a completely redesigned user interface”, which includes a more advanced WYSIWYG editor and a system dashboard with dynamic graphic display.”
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“The agreement with Hearst-Argyle Television will put local TV programming from five markets—Boston, Manchester, Sacramento, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore—onto dedicated channels on YouTube.”
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‘GCap is to add a BBC-style seven-day listen-again web facility to its portfolio of stations. A new internet radio player will offer the on-demand catch-up feature for what GCap said would be “a full catalog of all shows”.’
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‘The New York Times, “newspaper of record,” now brings you the record within minutes after the event happens. This is truly a sea change, and evidence that the New York Times is indeed changing its editorial standards online ‘
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“We launched the ‘other half’ of My Telegraph this afternoon. We’ve built an RSS reader and, if you’re wondering why more people don’t do that it’s because it’s damn difficult.”
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April 2007 comscore stats, including overseas usage figures.
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“The real competitive action is going to play out in the open source developer community and among bloggers and other independent publishers, who have rallied around WordPress.”