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News, News Media, Newspapers

Newspapers

• Statistics
  • Newspaper Websites: Total Web Audience , Newspaper Association of America
    • News Release, Online Newspaper Audience Sets Record in Second Quarter , Newspaper Association of America (July 23, 2007)
  • Pew Internet, Latest Trends , Daily Internet Activities & Latest Trends , Internet Activities
  • Visitors to U.S. newspaper websites rise, Globe and Mail 11/1/2007
  • Hitwise US News & Media Report p. 2 April 2007
  • Online Newspaper readership Countering Print Losses, Pew People and the Press Report, p. 5-7 (2005) PDF
• Reports
  • Online Newspaper readership Countering Print Losses, Pew People and the Press Report, p. 5-7 (2005) PDF
  • Pew Research Center for The People & The Press, " Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership : Overview" July 30, 2006
• Partnerships
  • Future murky for Yahoo-newspaper alliance , Globe and Mail (Oct. 11, 2007) (Reuters)
  • Zillow.com, Newspapers Team Up for Ads, NYT 11/20/2007
  • Newspapers and ads: Missed delivery, CNET 11/13/2007
  • Zillow teams up with 11 newspaper companies, Lost Remote 11/13/2007
• Revenue
  • 97 Of The Top 100 Online Classified Sites Are Craigslist, Techdirt 4/7/2009
  • Will Professor Craigslist Please Comment On The Tribune's Decision To Drop Job Ads?, Techdirt 1/22/2008
• News
• Buggy Whip Newsprint Maker Looks To Avoid Bankruptcy, Techdirt 3/24/2009
• Study: Online News Rapidly Cutting Off Print Pub Circulation, Ecommerce Times 5/1/2009
• Denver news startup backs off on goal, Lost Remote 4/21/2009
• Want To Know Why Newspapers Are Dying? Maureen Dowd Shows Us, Techdirt 4/16/2009
• Turns Out Americans Are Watching More TV Than Ever, Techdirt 7/10/2008
• L.A. Times to cut 250 Jobs: Less Free Press; More Need for a Free Internet, Peerflow 7/3/2008
• Newspapers continue downward spiral, Lost Remote 6/20/2008
• Mark Cuban: Hulu revenues will surpass YouTube's in 2009, CNET 6/18/2008
• Open letter urges Craigslist to help newspapers, Lost Remote 7/15/2008
• Newspaper stocks lose $3.9 billion in 2 weeks, Lost Remote 7/18/2008
• More bad news for newspapers, Lost Remote 7/14/2008
• Very bad news for newspapers, Lost Remote 6/17/2008
• Are High School Newspapers Obsolete?, Techdirt 6/13/2008
• Back in the N-C, Back in the N-C, Back in the N-C-M-R!, Tales from the Sausage Factory 6/6/2008
• Newspapers cry foul over Yahoo-Google ad deal, Globe and Mail 9/16/2008
• Zillow, newspapers expand tie-up, Lost Remote 9/10/2008
• Why The New York Times Should Stop Using The Term 'Newspaper', Techdirt 3/20/2008
• Would A Customized Newspaper Save The Industry?, Techdirt 12/11/2007
• Zillow.com, Newspapers Team Up for Ads, NYT 12/4/2007
• Cincinnati, Kentucky newspapers call it quits, Lost Remote 1/3/2008
• Internet Holdouts Upset At Newspapers For Moving Content Online, Techdirt 9/12/2007
• 20 Year Old Complaints About Dying Newspapers Sound Familiar, Techdirt 9/14/2007
• Newspapers, don't leave the Internet holdouts behind, Baltimore Sun 9/12/2007
• Online Newspapers Grab Ad Spending, eMarketer 9/21/2007
• Newspapers: Hook 'em online, Globe and Mail 10/10/2007
• U.S. Newspapers Have Little Safety Net , Globe and Mail (Nov. 5, 2007)
• Newspapers Come Up With Data To Delude Themselves That Their Web Efforts Are Going Well , Techdirt 5/8/2007
• Will The New York Times stop printing ?, CNET 2/9/2007
• Newspaper Says Threat Of Internet Is Overstated, While Others Team Up To Deal With Internet Challenge , Techdirt 1/12/2007

Government Activity

FCC Media Ownership Proceeding

• Media Bureau Announces Panelists And Agenda For Media Ownership Workshop On Financial And Marketplace Issues.  News Release. (Dkt No 09-182 ). News Media Contact: Janice Wise at (202) 418-8165, MB . Contact Mania Baghdadi or Amy Brett at (202) 418-2330 TXT

• STEVEN WALDMAN NAMED TO LEAD FCC EFFORT ON FUTURE OF MEDIA IN A CHANGING TECHNOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE. News Release. News Media Contact: Jen Howard at (202) 418-0506, email: Jen.Howard@fcc.gov OCH TXT

FTC Seeks Public Comments on the Future of the News Media in the Internet Age

Comments Due Nov 6, 2009 . To file comments

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comments in advance of upcoming workshops that will explore the Internet's impact on the news media, including the new avenues for innovation and the financial challenges that it has created for the industry. The workshops on Dec. 1-2, 2009 will consider a wide range of issues, such as Internet-related changes in advertising and the way people receive news, ideas for reducing costs and restructuring news organizations, potential for-profit and non-profit models for journalism, and the evolving competition among news organizations.

In a notice to be published in the Federal Register, the FTC is asking for input on a series of questions to be addressed in the workshops, including:

• How is the Internet changing the way consumers access news and how advertising dollars are spent?
• What economic challenges do news organizations face today?
• What cost-cutting measures have news organizations considered? Which have they adopted, and how have they affected the provision of news to consumers?
• What collaborations are news organizations undertaking or considering to deal with financial challenges brought about by the Internet?
• How is the Internet changing the way news organizations and others research, write, edit, produce, and distribute news?
• What innovative forms of journalism have emerged due to the Internet?
• What are the business models, including the revenue sources, for journalism on the Internet?
• How are news organizations likely to compete for audience and advertising in the future?
• Are new or changed government policies needed to support optimal amounts and types of journalism, including public affairs coverage?
• Should the tax code be modified to provide special status or tax breaks to all or certain types of news organizations?
• Do current U.S. copyright protections provide enough incentive to create news content?
• Should the federal government provide additional funding for news organizations?

The Commission will consider comments received by November 6, 2009, in preparing for the workshops; later comments will be accepted as well.

Participants in the FTC workshops will include journalists, editors, owners, and other representatives of news organizations, online advertisers, new media representatives (such as bloggers and local news Web sites), consumer advocates, academics, economists, and government officials. The FTC will post an agenda for the workshops at a later time.

The workshops will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the FTC's satellite building conference center, located at 601 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC. All attendees will be required to display a current driver's license or other form of photo identification for entry.

For more information about the workshops, please visit. To file comments, visit. The Commission vote approving the Federal Register notice announcing the workshops and soliciting public comments was 4-0.

Statistics

• Online News Audience
  • The State of the News Media 2007: Online: Audience , Project for Excellence in Journalism (2007)
  • State of the News Media 2006 , Online: Ownership, Project for Excellence in Journalism (2006) (unique visitors news websites)
  • Pew Internet, Latest Trends , Daily Internet Activities (use of online news)
  • Demographics
    • Pew Research Center for The People & The Press, " Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership ," p. 20-21 July 30, 2006 (age)
    • Pew Research Center for The People & The Press, " Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership ," p. 22 July 30, 2006 (educational level)
    • Newspaper Footprint: Total Audience in Print and Online , Newspaper Association of America , p. 10 (October 31, 2007)
  • Geographic Reach
    • Pew Research Center for The People & The Press, " Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership ," p. 22 July 30, 2006
    • The Washington Post Company, Annual Report p. 9-10 (2006)
• Reader Behavior
  • Eyetracking the News 2007 , Poynter
• Top News Properties / Destinations
  • Hitwise US News & Media Report p. 2 (April 2007)
  • State of the News Media 2007 : Online: Audience, Project for Excellence in Journalism (2007)
• 2007 Digital Future Report , Center for the Digital Future, USC Annenberg School (impact of Internet use on reading books, newspapers, and magazines offline)
• Media Info Center Adoption rates for SMATV, MMDS, Satellite Dish, DBS | Cable | Cable and VCR |
• Ryan Misuro, Chris Stec, Jennifer A.Thomas, & William F. Yurasko(BA Students), Does Internet Displace Traditional Media Usage? Penn State Undated
• Online Newspaper readership Countering Print Losses, Pew People and the Press Report, p. 5-7 (2005) PDF

Papers

• Informing Communities:  Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age , Knight Commission (Oct. 2, 2009)

• On Site: How Two Smaller Newspapers Energized Their Web Strategies , Newspaper Association of America (2007)
• Revenue
  • Michael ONeil, 5 Newspaper Giants in Talks About Online Ad Network , Chicago Tribune (Nov 6, 2007)
  • Online Newspapers Grab Ad Spending , eMarketer (September 21, 2007)
  • Ad Spending Will Grow 3% in 2007; 7% in 2008; 3% in 2009 , Jack Myers (September 15, 2007)
  • The State of the News Media 2007: Online: Economics , Project for Excellence in Journalism (2007)
  • The State of the News Media 2007: Online: Audience , Project for Excellence in Journalism (2007)
  • The Economic Impact of Blogging , Todd And = Marketing + Media (Nov. 26, 2006)
  • Advertising Expenditures , Newspaper Association of America (first tracked online expenditures in 2003)
  • Studies Differ on Internet's Impact on TV , New York Times Sept. 21, 1998 ("With tens of millions of people using the Internet every day, more and more advertisers and media executives are starting to wonder whether active surfers are watching less television.")
  • Elinor Mills, Newspapers and Ads: Missed Delivery , CNET Nov. 12, 2007
  • "Merrill Lynch Raises Alarm on Health of Newspaper Industry" (quoting Lauren Rich Fine, former managing director-corporate strategy and research, Merrill Lynch, New York (May 26, 2006) (discussing decline of classified ad revenue)
  • Online Classified Ad Alternatives
    • Zillow Real Estate
    • eBay
    • Craigslist
    • Amazon: Selling on Amazon:
    • Autobytel.com
    • Petfinder
    • Monster.com
    • HotJobs (Yahoo!)

Annual Reports

• The EW Scripps Company 2006 Annual Report
• The Washington Post Company, Annual Report (2006)
• Gannett Annual Report 2006
• New York Times Company Annual Report 2006
• Journal Register Company Annual Report 2006
• Lee Enterprises Annual Report 2006
• Media General Inc. Annual Report 2006
• Media News Group Annual Report 2007

Citizen Media

• Websites
  • All Voices
  • CNN iReport
    • CNN launching iReport.com, Lost Remote 2/13/2008
  • Helium
  • CircleID
  • WikiNews
  • Current.com
    • Eric Auchard, Gore's enlists Web users to shape news , Globe and Mail (Oct. 16, 2007) (Reuters)
  • Backfence.com (closed)
  • Backfence Closes, Citizen Journalism a Failure , Mashable, Social Networking News (July 5, 2007)
  • "Hyperlocal" News Sites Take A Hit , Webpronews (July 6, 2007)
  • The State of the News Media 2007: Online: Citizen Media , Project for Excellence in Journalism (2007)
  • Backfence.com begins backpedaling , Lost Remote (Jan 16, 2007)
• Journalism Professor Says Citizen Journalists Should Be Regulated, Techdirt 12/18/2007
• Citizens offer new take on news, BBC 9/12/2007
• I-Reporters capture first images of Minneapolis bridge collapse , CNN August 2, 2007 (" An interstate bridge in Minneapolis , Minnesota , collapsed during rush hour Wednesday evening, sending cars and debris crashing into the waters of the Mississippi River . I-Reporters provided some of the earliest images of the devastation to CNN. ");
• Camera Phones Prevail: Citizen Shutterbugs and the London Bombings , The Digital Journalist (July 2005)

Hyperlocal News

• Everyblock

Web 2.0 Media

• Treated as News Media
  • Center for Public Integrity v US Dept of Health and Human Services , Civil Action No. 06-1818, Slip at 8 (JDB) (DCDC August 3, 2007) (CPI found to be a "representative of news media" for purposes of FOIA where information sought from HHS would be published in an online newsletter).
  • Final Rules and Explanation and Justification for the Internet Communications Rulemaking , FEC Fed Reg Notice (Mar. 24, 2006) ("media exception" applies the same online as offline, and specifically, applies to bloggers the same as anyone else).
  • Advisory Opinion 2005-16, Issued to Fired Up! LLC, is Now Available, FEC 11/22/2005 PDF
  • FEC: Bloggers qualify for press exemption , Homeland Stupidity (Nov. 17, 2005)
  • Bloggers Score Press Passes for Fashion Week , BizReport (Sept. 13, 2006)
  • White House Approves Pass for Bloggers , NYTimes (March 7, 2005)
  • Parties to Allow Bloggers to Cover Conventions for First Time , Washington Post (July 6 th , 2004)
• Audience
  • The State of the News Media 2007: Online: Citizen Media, Project for Excellence in Journalism (2007)
  • Pew Research Center for The People & The Press, " Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership ," July 30, 2006
  • "Blog Readership Bogged Down," The Gallup Poll, February 10, 2006
• Economics
  • The State of the News Media 2007: Online: Citizen Media , Project for Excellence in Journalism (2007)
• Top Blogs
  • Techmeme Leaderboard
  • Sifry State of the Live Web
• Reports
• The Latest News Headlines - Your Vote Counts , Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism (Spet. 12, 2007)
• Bloggers and Journalists , Online Newshour (February 14, 2005)

Timeline

• 1922 Press-Radio Wars - Associated Press restricts use of its newspaper stories by radio stations. Thomas White, US Early Radio History (The Electric Telegraph 1860-1914)

• "Like the court gazettes in Europe, these papers posed no challenge to authority; they primarily chronicled events across the Atlantic but provided little information about developments at home, much less any critical discussion of politics. Monopoly newspapers had little incentive to do otherwise; in each case, the publisher was either a postmaster or a government printer and therefore dependent on the authorities for his livelihood" [Starr p 56] [See Network Neutrality]

• 1784: Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser goes into publication; the first daily newspaper. [LOC PA] [Starr 86]
• 1745: The Maryland Gazette Established [LOC MD]
• 1725: New York Gazette established [LOC NY]
• 1719: American Weekly Mercury established in Philadelphia. "The American weekly mercury was the first newspaper published in the middle colonies, and the fourth, in order of time, published in America." [LOC]
• 1715: Massachusetts begins to publish its debates and votes [Starr p 56]

Books

• Paul Starr, The Creation of the Media (Basic Books 2004)

Links

• Library of Congress, Newspapers
  • Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress: Pennsylvania
  • Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress: Maryland

News & Blogs

• Irony: Columnist Who Berates Bloggers For Not Fact Checking, Didn't Fact Check, Techdirt 7/30/2009
• The AP of Oz: Associated Press Prohibits Reporters from Peeking Behind its False DRM Curtain, CMLP 7/30/2009
• Shield Law Overturns Warrant for Student Photographer, Wired 7/27/2009
• A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web, NYT 7/27/2009
• Is The BBC An AP Parasite?, Techdirt 7/27/2009
• Bad Assumptions Made By American Press Institute Will Stop It From Helping Newspapers, Techdirt 7/7/2009
• Judge Says Blogs Not Legitimate News Source; No Shield Protections, Techdirt 7/7/2009
• Tehran Bureau Shows That If There's A Need, Reporting Will Get Done, Techdirt 7/2/2009
• Tribune Interactive Creates Photo Galleries Using Creative Commons Images from Flickr, Poytner 7/2/2009
• Fake local TV site promotes get rich scheme, Lost Remote 7/2/2009
• Wait, Wasn't The Internet Killing Journalism?, Techdirt 7/2/2009
• This Just In: Fake News Sites Are Great!, Wired 6/30/2009
• Unlike The AP, It Looks Like Reuters Recognizes The Future, Techdirt 6/30/2009
• News sites falter as traffic spikes after Jackson's death, CW 6/30/2009
• "(Google is) sucking the blood (out of newspapers.)", Lost Remote 6/25/2009
• According To WSJ, Google Not Just A 'Thief' But A 'Digital Vampire', Techdirt 6/25/2009
• Netherlands Considers Internet Tax To Fund Newspapers That Can't Compete, Techdirt 6/25/2009
• Link by Link: As Blogs Are Censored, It's Kittens to the Rescue, NYT 6/25/2009
• Twitter a lifeline to Iranian protesters, CW 6/25/2009
• Iconic Video from Tehran Protests Demands New Skills of Journalists, Online 6/25/2009
• Huffington Post's local rollout continues, Lost Remote 6/25/2009
• Craigslist on a Tear as Newspaper Classifieds Wither, Ecommerce Times 6/11/2009
• Craigslist thrives while newspaper classifieds fade, Globe and Mail 6/11/2009
• Apparently If You Work For The AP, You're Not Allowed To Criticize Newspaper Management, Techdirt 6/11/2009
• Online Classifieds, Pew Internet 6/11/2009
• La Russa & The AP Claims Twitter Settled Lawsuit... Twitter Sets The Record Straight, Techdirt 6/9/2009
• On the Web, Everyone Can Hear You Sue..., Citizen's Media 6/9/2009
• Newspapers' Plan For Survival: Charge Money, Beat Up On Craigslist And Keep Repeating To Ourselves That We're Needed, Techdirt 6/9/2009
• The Web Will Kill and Save Journalism, Internet News 6/5/2009
• YouTube drives video viewing to record month, CW 6/5/2009
• Extra! Extra! FTC Announces Workshop: 'Can News Media Survive the Internet Age? Competition, Consumer Protection, and First Amendment Perspectives', FTC 5/21/2009
• San Jose Mercury News: No One Reads Us Any More, So Let's Start Charging, Techdirt 5/19/2009
• Lawyers: To Save Newspapers, Let's Destroy Pretty Much Everything Else Good, Techdirt 5/19/2009
• Obama Aide: Broadband May Save the News, Internet News 5/19/2009
• Newspaper Publishers Should Listen to Nancy Reagan, PK 5/13/2009
• Don't Newspapers Owe Google Money For Helping Them Research Stories For Free?, Techdirt 5/13/2009
• The Problem With Newspapers: Lack Of Innovation, Lack Of Engagement... And Lack Of Reporting, Techdirt 5/13/2009
• Why Is Washington Singling Out Newspapers For A Tax Break Instead Of Journalism?, Techdirt 5/13/2009
• Papers considering charging for content (again), Lost Remote 2/10/2009
• Online newspaper readership climbs 16 percent, CNET 1/29/2009
• Christian Science Monitor ends print edition, Lost Remote 10/30/2008
• Newspapers cry foul over Yahoo-Google ad deal, Globe and Mail 9/16/2008
• Zillow, newspapers expand tie-up, Lost Remote 9/10/2008
• Is the Internet killing the news media?, CW 3/18/2009
• Will The Internet Kill The Foreign Correspondent?, Techdirt 3/18/2009
• The Guardian Follows The NY Times In Making News A Platform, Techdirt 3/12/2009
• Virginia Blogger Invokes Reporter's Privilege to Challenge Subpoena Seeking Anonymous Commenters, Citizen's Media 3/10/2009
• Reports of News's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated, Techdirt 3/3/2009
• Under Weight of Its Mistakes, Newspaper Industry Staggers, Wash Post 3/3/2009
• Bloggers Can't Fill the Gap Left by a Shrinking Press Corps, Wash Post 3/3/2009
• Cablevision To Charge Access To Newsday - Tries to buck the trend of free, ad-supported news content..., dslreports 3/3/2009
• If Paid Web Content Is Dead, Are Newspapers?, Internet News 2/26/2009
• No, The Death Of Newspapers Does Not Mean An Age Of Corruption, Techdirt 2/26/2009
• City council tries to envision future of newspapers, Lost Remote 1/29/2009
• Traffic rockets to Twitter site, BBC 7/2/2009
• The Straight Dope On Why Charging For News Online Is A Bad Idea, Techdirt 5/7/2009
• Blogs and Traditional Media, emarketer 5/22/2008
• Wired publisher acquires tech site Ars Technica, NYT 5/20/2008
• CBS to pay $1.8bn for CNET Networks, FT 5/15/2008
• Copyright and the Demise of Newspapers, Citizens Media Law 5/9/2008
• Citizen journalism at Disney World, Lost Remote 5/9/2008
• Future of newspapers is free: survey, Globe and Mail 5/6/2008
• Citizen news site under fire for proposed ad-policy changes, CNET 4/15/2008
• Way more news sites, way less news, Globe and Mail 3/28/2008
• CNN Digital Network top news sites, Lost Remote 3/20/2008
• State of the media 'more troubled' this year, Lost Remote 3/17/2008
• Craigslist's Craig: 'It Just Feels Right', Ecommerce Times 2/19/2008
• Blogger Wins Top Journalism Award, IP Democracy 2/19/2008
• Newspapers join forces in online ad network, Globe and Mail 2/15/2008
• CNN launching iReport.com, Lost Remote 2/13/2008
• Blogger Wins Top Journalism Award, IP Democracy 2/21/2008
• Newspaper Giants Group Hug For Online Ads, Internet News 2/15/2008
• CNN opens bureau in Second Life, Lost Remote 11/1/2007
• CNN launches news alert program, Lost Remote 10/18/2007
• People Are Promiscuous In Their News Sources, Techdirt 9/4/2007
• Press 'Asleep At The Wheel' On Astroturf - Allowing baby bells a greased track for 'franchise reform', Broadband Reports 5/8/2007
• Newspapers Come Up With Data To Delude Themselves That Their Web Efforts Are Going Well, Techdirt 5/8/2007
• BBC gets TV on-demand OK, BBC 5/1/2007
• Internet takes to the ice in new CBC-NHL TV deal, Globe and Mail 3/27/2007
• NBC, News Corp. to set up video site, USA Today 3/23/2007
• Network2 to FCC: Keep Web Video Regulation-Free, IP Democracy 3/21/2007
• Will The New York Times stop printing?, CNET 2/9/2007
• Internet Not Designed for TV, Google Warns, PC Mag 2/9/2007
• Disney Launches New Video-Rich Disney.Com, IP Democracy 2/6/2007
• Newspaper Says Threat Of Internet Is Overstated, While Others Team Up To Deal With Internet Challenge, Techdirt 1/12/2007
• Katrina Drove Online Traffic In August To Local Media, Internet Week 9/19/2005
• 'NBC Nightly News' to be shown on Internet, San Jose 11/1/2005