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For years now, newspapers have quietly watched Google index their headlines and offer users a synopsis of their stories without paying them a dime. Google is supposed to make it easier for newspaper readers to find content online. But some in the industry are questioning whether it makes business sense to allow Google to use their material for free. "If all of the newspapers in America did not...

The Sun and other News International newspapers could outsource part of their TV listings operation to India, as part of the company’s cost-cutting drive. News International is in talks with PA Solutions – a division of the PA Group, which also owns the Press Association wire service – about outsourcing its centralised listings operation, which supplies TV scheduling information to its four...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday approved the setting up of a new wage board to recommend the minimum emoluments and perquisites for working journalists. “Formal orders regarding this will be issued shortly by the labour ministry,” said a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). “Working journalists may be reassured that the prime minister has fulfilled the assurance he had...

Scotland's Sunday Herald recently reported that Google has entered into secret deals with unnamed UK news organizations for the rights to use their material on Google News. According to the paper, "It now seems that Google has accepted it has lost the argument over carrying stories without paying for them." That would be a shocking about-face—if it's true. A Google spokesperson tells Ars that the...

Some 54 Chicago Tribune newsroom staffers want to take the newspaper's buyout offer -- far short of as many as 100 jobs that the newspaper publisher said it wants to eliminate companywide, sources said Monday. But workers from other departments were also eligible to put in for the buyouts, which could eliminate the need for layoffs. Newsroom employees expect to find out by next week if they will...

INTERNET SEARCH engine Google is understood to have reached deals with several large UK news groups over carrying their content on Google News. The deals are reputedly being kept strictly secret for fear that Google will end up having to pay for similar licences with all of the 4500 news services it carries on its news aggregator. It now seems that Google has accepted it has lost the argument over...

FAIRFAX DIGITAL says it will run Google AdWords advertisements on its online news outlets as the media group seeks to integrate its content with the global search giant. The agreement allows revenue generated from Google's pay-per-click advertisements on websites belonging to flagship publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age to be shared between Fairfax and Google. Fairfax...

To cut costs and try to adapt to a changing media marketplace, The Chronicle will trim 25 percent of its newsroom staff by the end of the summer. "This is one of the biggest one-time hits we've heard about anywhere in the country," said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, in Washington. Eighty reporters, photographers, copy editors and others, as well as 20...

Dubai, Asharq Al-Awsat- The Times and The Sunday Times, two of the most respected and influential newspapers in the world, will publish their international editions in the Middle East starting on May 21. The move marks the first time a leading international daily is printed and distributed widely in the region on the day of publication, and the arrival of the UK papers is expected to have a...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AOL plans an aggressive global expansion this year and will introduce a new version of its popular e-mail service this summer to include its AIM instant messaging platform, the chief executive of Time Warner Inc.'s online division said on Wednesday. The company plans to refresh its Web portal and launch new ones in 14 countries over the next 18 months in a renewed focus on...