Media - Internet

The Chicago Sun Times will roll out up to 30 hyper-local citizen journalism websites by the end of the year. The sites will be grouped at neighborhoodcircle.com, which launched three test sites in suburbs of Chicago in April this year, and cover small areas of the city that could be home to as few as 10,000 people. The sites, which will be managed by a team of community reporters, will encourage...

According to a report released by Amnesty International this week, the Internet as we currently know it could change “beyond all recognition” unless urgent action is taken to counter what the human rights pressure group worryingly refers to as the “Virus of Internet repression” that’s spreading with increasing regularity via online monitoring and censorship. More pointedly, Amnesty’s warning came...

Online news and information will supplant television network news as the leading news source over the next five years, but newspapers will remain a vital source on their own, and can become dominant if they successfully integrate online delivery as a part of what they offer the public, a new poll has revelaed. The findings are from a Harris Poll conducted last month by Harris Interactive in...

Newspaper circulations worldwide rose 2.3 per cent in 2006 while newspaper advertising revenues showed substantial gains, the World Association of Newspapers announced Monday. WAN said global newspaper sales were up 2.3 per cent over the year, and had increased 9.48 per cent over the past five years. Newspaper sales increased year-on-year in Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, with North America...

One salvation for newspapers wrestling to make their multiplatform approach to news as profitable as print used to be alone is that their web sites are so popular – 37.6% of US active internet users visited a newspaper site in Q1 -- but new studies show that local TV web sites are increasingly snapping at their heels, and at the end of the day the most important buzz word for advertisers will be...

A number of major news outlets plan to announce today that they are adding a new way to search their Web sites, a move aimed at boosting traffic by encouraging readers to use them as a first stop for information gathering, just like Google or Yahoo. Inform Technologies LLC, which is based in New York, said 16 online publications plan to include its new search function. Among them are...

NEW YORK When you've got one of the largest, most successful newspaper Web sites in the country (and the world), making major changes to your homepage can be a big roll of the dice. Your users have grown used to your site and branding, they rely on it to get their news there every day, and, no matter how the changes improve the site, some are going to miss things the way they were. Still, if a...

The audience for US newspaper websites is growing at nearly twice the rate of the overall online audience. An average of more than 59 million people (37.6 per cent of all active Internet users) visited newspaper websites each month during the first quarter this year, a record number that represents a 5.3 per cent increase over the same period a year ago, according to Nielsen//NetRatings NetView...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Leading media executives took a combative tone against Internet companies on Tuesday, suggesting that Big Media increasingly considers new content distributors like Google Inc. to be more foe than friend. At a panel discussion on the second day of the 56th annual National Cable & Telecommunications Association conference, top executives said talk of the demise of traditional...

NEW YORK: The Newspaper Association of America released Internet usage data in conjunction with its industry conference held here starting on Sunday. Figures show that an average of 59 million people, or 37% of all active Internet users, visited newspaper Web sites each month during the Q1. During the same period, the overall Internet audience grew 2.7%. “The fact that newspaper Web site audience...