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16 Sep

Major online news companies try innovative experiment in publishing and revenue sharing

The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek and the Daily Beast are all participating in a new news service set up by Google. The news sites will supply screen shots […]

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16 Sep

Online traffic to newspaper websites doubles in five years

Media Daily News reports newspaper web traffic has increased 100 per cent between 2004 and 2009 based on figures from Nielsen Online. Not only have the number of visits increased, […]

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16 Sep

Overhauling online news comment features

Is there any reason the comments feature in news websites are all the same? This blog suggest an experiment by The Washington Post will revolutionize how audiences and news organization […]

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16 Sep

Finalists announced for Canadian Online Publishing Awards

The Canadian Online Publishing Awards, a program produced by Masthead Online, has announced a list of 2009 finalists. The awards honour English and French-language online publications and in order to […]

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16 Sep

Canwest papers launch mobile versions

Canwest’s ten metro dailies have launched mobile-optimized versions of their websites, the company announced today. The new versions are available for major mobile devices including  iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry Bold […]

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15 Sep

Investigative journalism with an aboriginal twist

The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) has unveiled its first foray into investigative journalism with the premiere of APTN Investigates on Sept. 18. Cecil Rosner spoke to the program’s executive […]

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15 Sep

New site focuses on sports journalism

The National Sports Journalism Center at Indiana University has just launched sportsjournalism.org, a website devoted to the subject of sports journalism and sports media.

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15 Sep

Google launches revenue-sharing news reading service

Amid all the concern from news organizations about Google News, the online giant has launched Fast Flip, a news reading service from which Google will share ad revenues with publishers. […]

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15 Sep

Politics junkies in journalism?

QUESTION: I have always been a very large news and political junkie. So recently, when I decided to make a career change I enrolled in an intensive broadcast journalism program. […]

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15 Sep

Journalism in the entrepreneurial age

Funding experiments are welcome and there’s nothing wrong with journalists looking for new ways to pay for reporting, writes Stephen J.A. Ward. But why assume funding from a foundation is […]

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