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Local advertising is the lifeblood of daily print newspapers, but in the online world they haven't been able to compete successfully with Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. for pay-per-click local ads. That may change as Quigo Technologies Inc., which last fall began offering a private-label version of its pay-per-click AdSonar Exchange marketplace, adds to its customer list. The vendor last week said it...

My newsroom days are 15 years distant, but I can see that there's not as much joy these days in the newsrooms I visit. That's a direct consequence of the change in motivation from the mission of journalism to the mission of creating shareholder value. I teach journalism for a living to college students now. So I think a great deal about the newsrooms and the journalistic life my students will...

THE bylines and photo credits in today's Travel section look no different than those throughout the newspaper. Yet nonstaff contributors produced every major feature article and almost all the photographs in the section. Or consider a typical Escapes section. About 80 percent of its content comes from outside contributors. These contributors, who are commonly known as freelancers or stringers...

Journalists around the world can apply for fellowships to attend an upcoming conference on participatory media, scheduled for October 5 in New York City. August 22 is the last day to apply for the fellowships. The Associated Press is hosting the conference, titled "We the Media: Behold the Power of Us." The event will explore emerging ideas about participatory media or citizen journalism, ideas...

New Delhi, August 11: Two journalists of The Indian Express have received this year’s Prem Bhatia awards for Political Journalism and Environmental Reporting. The Indian Express Principal Correspondent Varghese K George received the Rs 1-lakh Prem Bhatia award for excellence in Political Journalism for his exposes on how government officials siphoned-off crores of rupees meant for flood relief in...

New Delhi, 12 August (asiantribune.com): Notwithstanding the sudden dip in the relations between the two countries, and the daily accusations of infiltration from across the border into Kashmir, India would like to keep the ‘news channels’ open with Pakistan. There is a ban on Indian TV news channels in Pakistan besides the channels that dish out sitcoms daily. That has not prevented people from...

I tried for years to get on to Fleet Street and nearly gave up. Then, with one of those strokes of luck which all journalists need, in 1965 I wiggled my way on to The Sunday Times. I'd done one story for it as a freelance and had been given a spare desk and a telephone. The next week I went in and sat at the vacant desk. After a day or two, someone noticed me and gave me another story to do. One...

THE NEW YORK TIMES CAUGHT my eye last week with its short August 5 editorial, "Measuring the Blogosphere." Pegged to Technorati's recent "State of the Blogosphere" report - which said 80,000 new blogs are created every day, with some 14.2 million in existence already -- the editorial essentially conceded the arrival of blogging. While the old Gray Lady's editorial revelation is rather late in the...

Hostilities flared this week between the two best-known blog networks after comScore released a blog readership study that was co-sponsored by Six Apart and blog network Gawker Media. The turmoil highlighted both the problems of panel-based media research and the increasingly high stakes of blog advertising. The report aims to measure the size and characteristics of the blog audience, as well as...

NEW YORK (AP) -- With its official-looking BBC News banner, the Web site looked real enough, but the sick tale it told seemed too preposterous to be true. "Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight," blared the headline. An article followed about a circus-like spectacle that went awry and resulted in many deaths. The page was a hoax, but it exploded across the Internet. Soon it was being...