2005-2014

It's reasonable to estimate that more than a quarter of a million people demonstrated against the Iraq war on Saturday in Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other U.S. cities. The next day, the Washington Post front-paged a decent story that described "the largest show of antiwar sentiment in the nation's capital since the conflict in Iraq began." But more perfunctory back-page articles...

Analysts said that search leader Google is quietly moving to add classified ads to its index. Google has been contacting publishers of Web-based classified advertising sites, requesting a direct feed of listings, according to Classified Intelligence, a research firm focused on the industry. Recruitment site CareerBuilder is in discussions with Google, analyst John Zappe wrote in a research note on...

BATON ROUGE, La. – Maj. Ed Bush recalled how he stood in the bed of a pickup truck in the days after Hurricane Katrina, struggling to help the crowd outside the Louisiana Superdome separate fact from fiction. Armed only with a megaphone and scant information, he might have been shouting into, well, a hurricane. The National Guard spokesman's accounts about rescue efforts, water supplies and first...

INTERNET AD REVENUES FOR THE first half of this year surged to $5.8 billion--a 26 percent increase from the same period in 2004, according to a report released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers Monday. Online ad revenue for this year's second quarter totaled just under $3 billion, also marking a 26 percent increase over the second quarter of last year, as well as an...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans around the country protested the Iraq War on the weekend of September 24-25, with the largest demonstration bringing between 100,000 and 300,000 to Washington, D.C. on Saturday. But if you relied on television for your news, you'd hardly know the protests happened at all. According to the Nexis news database, the only mention on the network newscasts that...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. said late on Monday that it was tripling the number of Web pages that its system can search, seeking to upstage rival Yahoo Inc. in claims to be the world's widest Web search. But Google also said it would no longer publicize the number of Web pages available from any search -- calling a halt to what analysts say has become an increasingly meaningless size...

The decline in newspaper circulation figures and the tepid growth of subscription, single copy purchase, and advertising revenues between 2005 and 2009 is a global phenomenon, says PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2005-2009. No matter where in the world the newspaper business is located, the story repeats itself. The Outlook defines the newspaper publishing market as...

Magazines are diaries of popular culture. They have intimate relationships with their readers that are not duplicated by other media channels, and they have close ties with other segments of the media and entertainment industry: The stories that appear in magazines often become sources of songs, books, and motion pictures. In addition, magazines exercise special influence in the social sphere –...

In the latest round of the search-index size contest, Google unveiled an updated index it said is more than three times larger than that of any of its search engine competitors. "We're celebrating our seventh birthday...We had a pretty strong year," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a phone interview with CNET News.com, as he listed the launch of new products including Google Talk...

It is being seen as a move not quite in tune with the times ? the decision of the New York Times to put its columnists behind a paywall has not made it very popular on the Web. At a time when newspapers are going out of their way to accommodate citizen journalists on the websites, and making way for blogging channels on their online homes, NYT has launched TimesSelect and made its most read...