It's no secret that newspapers as a whole are on the decline. Some of the longest-standing family-owned outlets in the country have already shuttered their doors, and the ones who are managing to stay afloat are doing so with the help of digitization efforts and an online presence. This characteristic of journalistic publishing made the news this past spring that Jeff Bezos, … [Read more...] about Washington Post: What Would Bezos Do?
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Newsbeat App Provides Audio of Top News Stories
Newspapers and magazines are struggling to keep their heads above water, not just due to the rise in tablet penetration that has made more consumers turn to their devices for reading material, but also thanks to the abundance of free information available all day long on search engines and websites. Tactics like lower cost subscriptions to digital editions, paywalls, and … [Read more...] about Newsbeat App Provides Audio of Top News Stories
Washington Post Gives Away Free Digital Access
The Washington Post is giving a free digital subscriptions to their online website and the myriad of apps they have to existing premium subscribers of other newspapers. Smaller newspapers can leverage themselves to give away a free digital subscription to the Washington Post, on top of their normal promotions. The new program will officially kick off in May and the … [Read more...] about Washington Post Gives Away Free Digital Access
NYT Now App: Abridged News on Mobile Devices at Half the Cost
Are consumers too busy to read? In the ongoing experimentation from newspapers to adapt to a world of digital consumers while still making a profit, the New York Times has announced its newest option: abridged stories from its own publications, and other source around the internet, optimized for mobile device reading. Thanks to a new app, NYT Now, subscribers to the app's … [Read more...] about NYT Now App: Abridged News on Mobile Devices at Half the Cost
Japan Enjoys a Stable Newspaper Subscription Base but the Future is Digital
Newspapers in North America are in a state of flux and the entire industry is a cacophony of mergers, acquisitions or bankrupt companies. Ailing advertising revenue is prompting many local, regional and major papers to adopt the New York Times Paywall strategy, to varying amounts of success. The Washington Post was sold to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and general upheaval has forced … [Read more...] about Japan Enjoys a Stable Newspaper Subscription Base but the Future is Digital
Satirical Newspaper The Onion Goes Strictly Digital
After twenty-five years of providing satirical headlines, articles, and features, some of them meant to take a stab at politics or religion, others simply intended to be pointlessly funny, The Onion will no longer be available in print. According to an article on the move to digital by Lynne Marek for Crain's Chicago Business, the paper has been slowly phasing out some of … [Read more...] about Satirical Newspaper The Onion Goes Strictly Digital
Newspapers Are Going Digital, But Not Under the Direction of Digital Natives
Newspapers around the world are discovering one by one that their customers are coming to rely on digital editions, and as such, many long-established icons of journalism are turning to digital, either in a hybrid capacity which lets the consumers choose print, digital, or both; or in a natural evolution towards a strictly digital landscape. Unfortunately, according to a recent … [Read more...] about Newspapers Are Going Digital, But Not Under the Direction of Digital Natives
Popular UK Newspapers Increase Digital Subscriptions by 20%
Digital newspapers are doing quite fine in the UK as the Times and Sunday Times have seen their digital circulation increase by over 20%. Currently over 150,000 readers subscribe to the digital editions only of the two publications and their print side accounts for 350,000. "The Times and Sunday Times pioneered digital subscriptions and today we can see a solid customer … [Read more...] about Popular UK Newspapers Increase Digital Subscriptions by 20%
Aquafadas Launches Cloud Authoring at Frankfurt Book Fair
Digital publishing solutions provider Aquafadas unveiled a new, simplified workflow solution this morning at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Called AQ Cloud Authoring, the program streamlines the publishing process for a variety of content developers. From magazines and newspapers who may have large volumes of content to distribute, to small press publishers who don't have an in-house … [Read more...] about Aquafadas Launches Cloud Authoring at Frankfurt Book Fair
Google Chief Economist Proclaims Tablets as the Savior of Newspapers
Google Chief Economist Hal Varian gave a keynote speech recently at the International Journalism Festival in Milan, Italy. He cited that the traditional newspaper industry has been in a state of decline since 1972 and that modern day news websites are eroding them further. The one bright spot in the future of the newspaper is the digital edition via tablets. Citing a Pew … [Read more...] about Google Chief Economist Proclaims Tablets as the Savior of Newspapers