links for 2007-09-02

Original stories, from the source – Google News Blog

“Because [news agencies] don’t have a consumer website where they publish their content, they have not been able to benefit from the traffic that Google News drives to other publishers. As a result, we’re hosting it on Google News. “

(tags: internet vertical search news aggregators google googlenews journalism pa)

Google News redirects its wire search web traffic – FT.com

“Newspapers could see a drop in traffic redirected to their websites from Google News after a redesign of the site that will mean newswire stories carried by other publishers no longer show up in search findings.”

(tags: internet vertical search news aggregators google googlenews newspapersites journalism pa)

The internet: Who’s afraid of Google? – Economist.com

“The world’s internet superpower faces testing times”

(tags: internet business strategy search google theeconomist)

Is Ad Revenue Stabilizing? – E&P

US: “July advertising revenue results are not quite as bad as they might seem, at least not compared to prior months. In fact, ad revenue might be stabilizing, according to a note released by John Janedis, a senior analyst at Wachovia Equity Research.”

(tags: internet newspapers business advertising revenue migration trends stats)

Goldman Sachs: More Downbeat on Ad Trends – E&P

US: “While Wachovia Equity Research is more upbeat about July advertising revenue, Goldman Sachs is much more pessimistic. In a note to investors released today, lead analyst Peter Appert sees “no encouraging signs in July newspaper ad revenue.”"

(tags: internet newspapers business advertising revenue migration trends stats)

Fitch: Newspaper Industry Doing Worse Than We Expected In ’07 – E&P

US: “In its latest broad survey of the industry, issued Wednesday, Fitch Ratings says newspapers are doing even worse than it expected at the beginning of the year.”

(tags: internet newspapers business advertising revenue migration trends stats)

Local newspaper revenues plummet – FT.com

“The UK’s local newspaper industry lost about £225m in revenue last year as regional publishers invested heavily online but failed to counter declining circulation and advertising revenue in print, according to figures obtained by the Financial Times.”

(tags: internet newspapers business advertising revenue migration trends stats)

Ten pieces of advice for old media – Bad Science

Ben Goldacre: “emboldened by the Diet Pepsi I began to offer unsolicited advice on what newspapers should do with the internet: as a punter, as a microfamous internet oligarch and, of course, as a gentleman.”

(tags: internet newspapers newspapersites journalism)

UK: regional press rushes online, boosted by flood crisis – Editors Weblog

“In addition to having launched numerous websites this year, the British regional press saw its online traffic boosted by the summer floods. Local newspapers remain a go-to destination during challenging times.”

(tags: internet newspapers newspapersites news audience)

Journalism is Burning Or How Breaking News is Broken – O’Reilly Radar

“It wasn’t the subject of Scott’s story that stood out; it was the way he was telling it on his LaughingSquid blog. He reported the story by updating the blog over time. The practice is not unusual for bloggers.”

(tags: internet blogging participatory journalism citizenmedia)

Online newspaper advertising jumps 19 percent in second quarter – NAA

US: “Advertising expenditures for newspaper Web sites increased by 19.3 percent to $796 million in the second quarter versus the same period a year ago, according to preliminary estimates from the Newspaper Association of America.”

(tags: internet newspapers business advertising revenue migration trends stats naa)

Google Shift on Handling of News – New York Times

“Because of Google’s campaign to simultaneously reduce duplicate articles, the original wire service article is likely to be featured in Google News instead of versions of the same article from newspaper customers, sapping ad revenue to those newspapers

(tags: internet vertical search news aggregators google googlenews newspapersites journalism pa)

Link v. read – BuzzMachine

“Now — by forcing full wire-service stories to be on display at GoogleNews and with the addition of comments as content there — it’s likely that people will stay longer at Google and link less to news sites. “

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