news industry profitability

Opinion: Suggestions made for saving news industry

Speakers at a conference for media executives urged them to bolster the bottom line by radically changing the way they presented the news. Among their suggestions were to provide more context for and linkages to the news; provide more analysis; and employ alternatives to the narrative form, e.g., “Fusion Tables and query strings, status updates and tweets.” -db From a commentary in paidContent, April 26,2012, by Robert Andrews. Full story  

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Google’s Fast Flip attempts to make reading news faster for public and more profitable for news outlets

Google is creating a news hub that allows viewers to read dozens of news articles quickly. They plan to share revenues with news providers from the ads that surround the articles. -DB The New York Times September 15, 2009 By Miguel Helft SAN FRANCISCO — Google, long seen as an enemy by many in the news industry, is making a bold attempt to be seen as a friend with a new service it hopes will make

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