Gannett’s local newspapers and TV stations will begin selling Yahoo inventory, considerably boosting the size of Yahoo’s local sales efforts. The deal, which involves 81 newspaper organizations and seven of its 23 TV stations, is similar to the efforts of Yahoo’s 800-member Newspaper Consortium.
But Gannett, notably, is staying separate from the Consortium. In part, …

According to new research released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, news is personal, portable and participatory:

Portable : 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones.
Personalized : 28% of Internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them.
Participatory : …

In the past few days, two large media companies – Time Warner and Newsday (Cablevision) – have announced that they are either moving towards or are seriously considering restricting access to their content on the Internet. In the case of Time Warner, CEO Jeff Bewkes suggested that only existing subscribers (through cable, telco or DBS …

The Rocky Mountain News ceasing operations after nearly 150 years. The San Francisco Chronicle possibly soon following. Other daily newspapers cutting back delivery of copies in certain areas and not publishing on certain days. Hundreds of newspapers being forced to cut back on their reporting staffs. Could any of these cutbacks in service been avoided?
The …