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AOL Wrestles With The Value Of Putting Its Brand Name On Everything
Even before Tim Armstrong joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to take AOL independent, the company was mixing in new brands with the familiar acronym. He’s pushed that strategy even harder, to the point where the question is what brands will be added—but whether any of the major content will...
Tags: Brand Name, Brand, America Online Inc., Branding, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, Time Warner, AOL, David Kaplan
External links 2009-11-20
Daily Beast Taps Former CNET, Dennis Publishing Exec Colvin As President
The Daily Beast has named publishing vet Stephen Colvin as the site’s president. Colvin CNET was president and CEO of lad mag purveyor Dennis Publishing for 11 years, will oversee all aspects of the business, the company announced. He will report directly to Tina Brown, the year-old IAC-backed site’s...
Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., Dennis Publishing Inc., Daily Beast, Branding, Corporate Governance, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, IAC, David Kaplan
External links 2009-11-20
AOL-Owned Patch Launches Two New Local Sites, Names Publisher
First, EveryBlock gets sold and now another heavily talked about hyperlocal startup has its own bit of news to announce. AOL-owned Patch is launching new sites in Summit, New Jersey and Darien, Connecticut, bringing the total number of hyperlocal sites in its network to eight. Three more are listed...
Tags: America Online Inc., CEO, Patch, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Advertising, Local, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, Time Warner, AOL, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-08-19
News Corp Launches Global Service To Link All Its Outlets
By Stephen Brook: News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) is launching a global service that will make all its news stories and videos instantly available to its entire network of TV, print and online news outlets.The service, called NewsCore, will operate like a global wire service for all the company’s newspapers,...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Network, News Corp., MediaGuardian.co.uk, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Smart Phones, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, MediaGuardian
External links 2009-09-07
NYT's Sulzberger To Globe Staff: 'Our Hand Is Not Being Forced'
Last spring, the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) threatened to shut down the Boston Globe unless unions agreed to $20 million in cuts. Despite pleas to get involved as the Newspaper Guild struggled with its response—eventually resolved—NYC Chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and CEO Janet Robinson stayed away. Today...
Tags: Paper, Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp., NYT, Construction, Team Management, Games, Strategy, Management, Personal Technology, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, New York Times, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-09
Interview: Google News' Josh Cohen: Can The Aggregator Ever Win Over Publishers?
There’s no shortage of publishers who are eager to criticize Google (NSDQ: GOOG)—and specifically Google News. They accuse the company alternatively of building a business on the back of their content and not giving their original content sufficient visibility in search results. Despite high-profile efforts to reach out to...
Tags: Google Inc., Google News, Publisher, Internet, Construction, Search, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, Google, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-09-09
Jobing Buys Recruiting Industry Blog Cheezhead
Recruiting industry news blog Cheezhead has been sold to online job search company Jobing for an undisclosed sum. As part of the acquisition, Cheezhead, which currently reports on various players in the recruiting industry—including Jobing—is changing its focus to provide content relevant to Jobing’s focus on local recruiting. “With...
Tags: Industry, Blog, Recruiting, Jobing, Blog Cheezhead, Cheesman, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Media & Publishing, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-09-09
Revamped SBNation Hooks Up With FanHouse
So what does a five-year-old sports start-up do with $13 million in funding? Blog network SBNation is spending some of it on a new strategy that adds a layer of senior editors and a real-time, edited news stream, pulling the 212 blogs into what CEO Jim Bankoff now calls...
Tags: America Online Inc., Blog, SBNation, FanHouse, Bankoff, Blogging, Business Structures, Internet, Finance, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Time Warner, AOL, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-10
ESPN Planning UK Online Sports Portal
What’s missing from ESPN’s UK soccer package? A website to go with the TV coverage. But the U.S. network has confirmed to us it is preparing a UK sports portal to accompany the broadcasts.We reported this month that the company was hiring senior online editorial staff to work at...
Tags: ESPN, U.K., Gleeson, Portals, Video On Demand (VoD), Web Technology, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Online News, TV, VOD, Companies, Disney, Patrick Smith
External links 2009-09-13
CNN Wire Launches A La Carte Store For Text Reports
If only creating a wire service was as easy as pundits blabbering about creating an alternative to AP. CNN’s nascent wire service, launched for newspapers and online, is already tinkering with its business model a few months after its launch: it has launched a text-only online store, at CNNWireStore.com,...
Tags: CNN, Web Site Development, Cable, Web Technology, RSS, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, Time Warner, Turner, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-09-16
Fwix Discloses $2.75 million Funding Round; Launches Open Newswire Platform
Hyperlocal newswire Fwix says it raised $2.75 million in a first round from BlueRun Ventures. We reported on Fwix’s official launch last month, but at the time, the company didn’t disclose the amount of its funding. In conjunction with the announcement, the San Francisco-based startup is opening its API...
Tags: Round, API, Fwix, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-17
WSJ Mobile Pay Plans Start Next Month; Includes Browser Access
Rupert Murdoch’s plans to charge for mobile access to the Wall Street Journal kick into full gear next month, with $104 fees for non-print or online subscribers for the Wall Street Journal Mobile Reader—and a pay wall for m.wsj.com as well. Current subscribers to print or online will be...
Tags: Wall Street Journal, Microsoft Access, Mobile, Web Browser, Advertising & Promotion, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, News Corp., Dow Jones, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-17
Guardian News & Media Confirms Observer's Survival
It will still be the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper for the forseeable future… Guardian News & Media has given a stay of execution to The Observer after a strategic review of its print titles recommended “closer integration” with The Guardian instead of a closure for the Sunday title. GNM...
Tags: Guardian Media Group Plc., Media, Integration, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, Guardian Media Group, Patrick Smith
External links 2009-09-17
Washington Post Online, Print Operations Will Merge Jan. 1, 2010
Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth’s push to integrate the paper’s print and online operations continues to move at a rapid pace with Jan. 1, 2010 as the target. Weymouth told the staffs via memo Thursday that The Washington Post and Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Digital, which operates washingtonpost.com, will...
Tags: Washington Post Co., Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth, Weymouth, Marketing Research, Internet, Outsourcing, Marketing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, Washington Post, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-17
Interview: Handmark CEO Paul Reddick On Making Murdoch's WSJ Mobile App
The man behind The Wall Street Journal’s pay-for mobile app says charging for content isn’t the sole answer for mobile publishers—ads, he says, should also be part of the monetization strategy. Read on for excerpts from our interview with Paul Reddick, CEO of app developer Handmark, which makes apps...
Tags: Handmark, Wall Street Journal, Advertisement, Mobile, App, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, News Corp., Dow Jones, Patrick Smith
External links 2009-09-17
Industry Moves: Former TMZ Bureau Chief Lee Joins Fuller's HollywoodLife.com
Bonnie Fuller has added some help in putting together and managing a digital newsroom by signing celeb news vet Will Lee as executive editor of HollywoodLife.com. Lee was at TMZ for nearly three years, starting as a producer but spending most of his tenure as New York bureau chief...
Tags: Bureau, Industry, Bonnie Fuller, Fuller, Advertising & Promotion, Gender And Diversity, Marketing, Human Resources, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Women-Centric Content, Online News, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-17
MashLogic Gets $2.5 Million In First Round Funding
Well ... that was quick. Contextual browser add-on MashLogic has raised $2.5 million in its first round of funding, per an SEC filing. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup picked up $500,000 in an angel round from investors including About.com founder Scott Kurnit and Bessemer Venture Partners in June. MashLogic...
Tags: Board, Web Browser, MashLogic, Corporate Governance, Web Browsers, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Media & Publishing, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-09-03
Incisive Media Carved In Two By Private Equity Backers
B2B publisher Incisive Media’s private equity backer is splitting the business in to two, FT.com reports.Apax Partners, which owns 59 percent of Incisive, will take full control of its US-based American Lawyer Media portfolio of magazines, websites and events, which Incisive bought for $630 million (£387 million) in 2007.Apax...
Tags: Private Equity, Incisive Media, Equity, Covenant, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Online News, Money, Patrick Smith
External links 2009-09-03
Journalism Online Adds Non-Profit Support With IWPR As Launch Partner
Journalism Online hasn’t moved beyond letters of intent on the commercial side but the Steve Brill-Gordon Crovitz-Leo Hindery Jr. enterprise is adding a non-profit service that already has a launch partner: the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting IWPR. The non-profit service announced this morning (these are intentional...
Tags: Affiliate, Publisher, Productivity, Benefits, Human Resources, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-20
FT.com Profiling IP Numbers To Drive Corporate Subs
FT.com’s subscription sales team is now mining the site’s traffic logs to target companies whose staff visit its free stories most often. Profiling firm Trovus has been hired for the task, hoping to add to FT.com’s 600 corporate subscriptions.Trovus is monitoring the IP address of frequent readers to find...
Tags: IP, Sales Team, FT.com, B2B, Sales Strategy, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Sales, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, Pearson, Financial Times, Patrick Smith
External links 2009-08-20
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