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C-Change Media Inc.: Why Digital News Consumers Are So Promiscuous

At BusinessWeek, we once asked McKinsey and Co. to study our web users and found to our surprise and chagrin that our brand users were remarkably promiscuous. On average, they visited 18 different media brands--TV networks, newspapers, magazines, and websites--a week to satisfy their news appetites. At first, we thought this was a shocking number, showing little loyalty to our brand. On reflection, however, we came to realize that many of the readers of BusinessWeek are news junkies. They devour information and analysis, and it's obvious that they would seek news from lots of sources on a regular basis
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Posted March 4, 2010
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Yahoo’s SVP Schneider: ‘Local Is Digital Crack’

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Posted March 2, 2010
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Rally for the Future: Real-Time News and the Fourth Estate | GroundReport


Rally for the Future - GroundReport - Rachel Sterne -

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Posted February 3, 2010
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A Simple Google Hack Gives You Free Access to Online Newspaper Articles [Via @labnol]

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Posted January 8, 2010
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'Fast Flip' Surfaces On The Google News Home Page

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"Five months after its debut, the service has been added to the bottom of the Google News home page, so that readers can quickly browse through groups of stories, including those that are “most viewed” and most “recent.”

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Posted January 8, 2010
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Hyperlocal news: profits a long way off

In short, 2010 will not be the year of hyperlocal—these are the foothills, the beginnings of localised online publishing
via http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/dec/10/aop-microlocal-forum

 

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Posted December 10, 2009
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Google Unveils a News-by-Topic Service [NYT]

The Google project is now at livingstories.googlelabs.com, part of Google Labs, where the company tries out experimental products, but if it is judged a success, it would eventually reside on the site of any publisher that wanted to use it.
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Posted December 8, 2009
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"The future is a hybrid future" ~ Arianna Huffington At The Monaco Media Forum

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Well worth the listen if you're interested in how old and new media are converging in the publishing business.

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Posted November 12, 2009
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An interesting observation from Nieman Lab while interviewing Google's Eric Schmidt

That is, for what it’s worth, not the distinction Google News is making: The “(blog)” label is supposed to be attached to any news published with blogging software. At the time, I thought Google might be throwing a bone to newspaper companies that don’t like being lumped with amateur news sources. And while I’m sure the new label was not important enough to reach Schmidt’s desk, his framing of that distinction — “the infrastructure around the writer” — is an interesting one.
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Posted November 4, 2009
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Bloomberg.com Hints At Paywalls
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"Bloomberg is now considering charging Bloomberg.com users up to $1,000 a year to access certain areas of the site from next year."
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I can see corporate clients budgeting for its content, but it'll tough for any consumers to bite off that kind of price tag.

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Posted November 4, 2009
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