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Wall St. Journal to Make Web Site Free, Murdoch says
Update: After reports Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the News Corporation, says he expects to make access to The Wall Street Journal’s Web site free, a top Dow Jones executive told Editor and Publisher the comments were premature.
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Nov 14, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
TimesSelect Reader analysis
Jon Garfunkel conducts a very detailed analysis of The New York Times' TimesSelect initiative in an attempt to determine whether the Times lost influence, audience, or money over the last two years as a result of the project.
Among his findings:
I counted the number of references from the blogs to fifty popular political columnists & bloggers. According to data from Google Blog Search, the references to the 7 Times Op-Ed columnists grew by eight times, while the sample set grew by ten times. Still, the Times's top three stars (Friedman, Krugman, Brooks) remained in the top 7 sports.
Nov 6, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Do Home Pages Have a Place in Web 2.0's Future?
A new study says that online users are increasingly using search to find things, rather than go through brands' front doors. In addition, social recommendations continue to grow in importance. More than 85% of people on the panel used "most popular" links on sites to decide what to look at and more than 55% made purchase decisions based on user reviews. On the flip side, few people use tag clouds.
Oct 4, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Survey of news media's use of Twitter
Curt Hopkins, the founder of the Committee to Protect Bloggers, has created a survey on how traditional news media use Twitter and it's located here: I set up a survey to track Twitter use at news organizations. If you use Twitter at a newspaper, radio station, television station or another "MSM" organization, fill it out.
Sep 25, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
PEJ report compares user-news sites with professional ones
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has released a new report today comparing the news selection on user-ranked sites like Digg, Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit and Yahoo News (Most Recommended, Most Viewed, and Most Emailed) with the news agenda of 48 mainstream news outlets.
"In short, the user-news agenda, at least in this one-week snapshot, was more diverse, yet
also more fragmented and transitory than that of the mainstream news media. This does
not mean necessarily that users disapprove or reject the mainstream news agenda. These
user sites may be supplemental for audiences. They may gravitate to them in addition to,
rather than instead of, traditional venues. But the agenda they set is nonetheless quite
different."
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Sep 12, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Internet grows more popular in Canada
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released its annual Broadcasting Policy Monitoring Report, showing that new media is becoming an increasingly important part of Canadians’ lives.
Among the findings:
* The percentage of Canadian adults reporting having watched or downloaded television, videos or movies from the Internet increased in 2006 compared to 2005.
* The types of programming watched on the Internet are television shows (40%), news (38%), sports (21%), music videos (21%), movies (20%), weather (10%) and comedy (10%).
* 70% of Canadian households subscribed to the Internet in 2006, which is 6% more than in 2005. The percentage of Canadian households with high speed Internet subscriptions also continued to increase, from 51% in 2005 to 60% in 2006.
* 22% of Canadians listened to radio over the Internet in 2006 and 6% watched television.
* In 2006, 58% of Canadians used a cellphone to access the Internet, 14% an MP3 player, 9% a Webcam, 7% an iPod, 5% a personal digital assistant (PDA), and finally, 4% used a BlackBerry.
* Advertising on the Internet totalled $1 billion in 2006, almost double from the $562 million in 2005.
Aug 1, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK
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