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Newspapers are Old News

Via PR 2.0 by Brian Solis As a follow up to my post, “Extra Extra, Read All About It! Newspapers Respond to the Social Web,” new research emerges that documents the looming exit of print newspapers as a primary source … Continue reading

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Study: Newspaper Websites Are Still Figuring Out This Whole Conversation Thing

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008 Newspapers are still lurching their way around the Web, a new study finds, but at least they are making some progress. The Bivings Group released a study today that quantifies … Continue reading

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Newspaper Death Spiral Continues; Industry Advertising Contracts $5 Billion So Far This Year

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on November 27, 2008 The newspaper industry in the U.S. continues to shrink at an alarming rate. According to the Newspaper Association of America,, total industry advertising (both print and online) in the third … Continue reading

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Should Newspapers Become Online Ad Brokers for Local Businesses?

Via Media Shift by Mark Glaser, November 20, 2008 Desperate times call for desperate measures, and that’s where the newspaper business is right now. With profits slashed, unending layoffs, and online ad growth slowing, newspapers have to be open to … Continue reading

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How Newspapers Can Increase Their Google Juice

Via Media Shift by Mark Van Patten, November 14, 2008 There isn’t much difference between what appears in a small newspaper’s print edition and online. Many photographs make it online that don’t make it to print, and the AP stories … Continue reading

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Google Expands Online Newspaper Archive Search

Via Tech Crunch from *TechCrunch* by Erick Schonfeld Google announced today that it is expanding the historical newspaper articles that are searchable online. In partnership with newspaper publishers, it is scanning their print archives and making it available on Google’s … Continue reading

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