New York Times:
The program began in November 2006 as a test, and Google later expanded it to some 800 newspapers, including major dailies like The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune.
But the amount of newspaper ad space sold via Google was small, newspapers and industry analysts said.
“Financially, it was negligible for both Google and publishers,” said Jeffrey Lindsay, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. “None of these deals amounted to much.”
The New York Times has posted some stunning photographs of crews pulling the Airbus A320 that crashed in the Hudson River last week out of the freezing water. Looking at the underside of the plane, it really is a miracle nobody died.
Check this out:
In a telephone interview today, Jobs said he won’t comment further on his health.
“Why don’t you guys leave me alone – why is this important?” Jobs said.
These guys give journalists a bad name. I mean, even as the CEO of a major company, the man is a human being. And last time I checked, there are bigger economic stories than Apple at the moment.
Janis Krums, a tourist in New York City from Sarasota, Florida, took a picture with his iPhone of the US Air flight 1549 crash in the Hudson River this afternoon. Krums, who posted the picture on his Twitter account, @jkrums, was speaking live as a witness on MSNBC within minutes of capturing the image.
Without a doubt, the iPhone (and other smartphones) have increased the speed news travels and is reported. The question for journalists (and their audiences) is: Are first-hand accounts like this actually “news.” My answer is no, but people like Janis Krums are increasingly vital in tipping off the news media of breaking events.
Craigslist has been accused of single-handedly killing the newspaper industry by conditioning people to pay as little as zero for classified ads. Craig Newmark famously knows he is leaving perhaps 10s of millions of dollars on the table, and famously could not care less. Meanwhile, the traditional lifeblood for newspapers for your used car is being drained dry by this international classified ad network and by slightly-more-expensive-and-more-complicated auction services like eBay. You can’t blame Craiglist for innovating – despite their business model, they clean up, thank you very much – just like you can’t blame Google. You’d have to blame the entire internet.
Beset by falling revenue, Detroit’s newspapers announced Tuesday that they plan to offer only three days of home delivery and will push their online editions instead, making the city the largest in the nation to have its daily papers undergo such a makeover.
“We’re here because we’re fighting for our survival,” Hunke said at a news conference. “We’re also here because we have an absolute resolve to not only save but rethink and rebuild two of the greatest newspapers in this country.”
Time’s managing editor, Richard Stengel:
Beyond his mastery of the issues, Obama revealed a more personal note: a slightly rueful sense that the world was tightening around him, that he would no longer be able to take a walk or shop for groceries. He seemed to be girding himself for the loss of being simply a regular citizen.
In addition to a lengthy article and interview, Time.com has some photographs of the President-elect in college and a section devoted to Obama-themed are found on Flickr. It’s a lot of material, but my favorite is a piece by Obama’s brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, about a basketball game with the President-elect.
The company was founded in 1847, when 400 copies of The Chicago Tribune were printed by hand in a one-room plant, according to the company’s official history. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the paper’s editor, Joseph Medill, was elected mayor. In 1911, company leadership was handed to two of his grandsons, Joseph Medill Patterson, who later founded The New York Daily News, and Robert R. McCormick. Under Mr. McCormick, the paper became known as a bastion of Midwestern conservatism. He also led the company into the new fields of radio and television, establishing stations WGN and WGN-TV, whose initials stood for World’s Greatest Newspaper.
Mr. Shanbhag, who lives in Boston but happened to be in Mumbai when the attacks began on Wednesday, described the gunfire on his Twitter feed — the “thud, thud, thud” of shotguns and the short bursts of automatic weapons — and uploaded photos to his personal blog.
Mr. Shanbhag, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, said he had not heard the term citizen journalism until Thursday, but now he knows that is exactly what he was doing. “I felt I had a responsibility to share my view with the outside world,” Mr. Shanbhag said in an e-mail message on Saturday morning.