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Newspaper Publishers Hold Secret Confab On Charging For Web Content
Two dozen newspaper publishers, including representatives from the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT), Gannett (NYSE: GCI), E. W. Scripps, Advance Publications, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company, Hearst Newspapers, MediaNews Group, the Associated Press, Philadelphia Media Holdings, Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) and Freedom Communications, quietly attended the Newspaper Association of America’s annual meeting in Chicago today to discuss ways of charging readers for online content. The Atlantic’s James Warren has the agenda for the “Models to Monetize Content” conference. The event was organized by the Newspaper Association of America, though it was not listed on its website. The private discussion was first mentioned back in April by Alan D. Mutter on his Reflections of a Newsosaur. CORRECTION: Mutter did not write about yesterday’s NAA meeting in any way; his post referred to an earlier NAA gathering held in San Diego last April.
Warren, who oversaw the layoffs of 100 staffers at the Chicago Tribune last year as the paper’s managing editor, said that expects a large number of the publishers who attended to start charging for some online content because “they don’t know what else to do.” More after the jump
Despite an appearance by NAA’s CEO John Sturm a few weeks ago on The Colbert Report, the NAA has put forward a less public face in the past year. In addition to no longer packaging quarterly revenues last year, the NAA no longer publicizes its annual meeting, considering that most of the industry’s news has become routinely grim.
As for presentation, Warren noted that a few copyeditors could have been employed to avoid panel descriptions like the second session’s “Journalism Online: Presentation on proposed service to charge for access to newspaper content and to license that content that (sic) online aggregators.” Other topics included “Aggregating User Data” and “Fair Syndication Consortium/Attributor,” which looked at ways to track newspaper content across the web and get aggregators to pay up.
—NiemanLabs: Why so hush-hush? Not because the newspaper executives are opposed to an open debate. It’s because they’re worried about possible antitrust violations. Alluding to a memo from NAA’s Sturm, NiemanLabs points out that an industry gathering to discuss setting up paywalls could have the appearance of an illegal cartel. Newspapers would like an antitrust exemption to build up paywalls across their sites and fashion some industry guidelines. NiemanLabs counts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a supporter, but the Obama administration is against it.
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Newspaper Publishers Hold Secret Confab On Charging For Web Content
Two dozen newspaper publishers, including representatives from the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT), Gannett (NYSE: GCI), E. W. Scripps, Advance Publications, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company, Hearst Newspapers, MediaNews Group, the Associated Press, Philadelphia Media Holdings, Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) and Freedom Communications, quietly attended the Newspaper Association of America’s annual meeting in Chicago today to discuss ways of charging readers for online content. The Atlantic’s James Warren has the agenda for the “Models to Monetize Content” conference. The event was organized by the Newspaper Association of America, though it was not listed on its website. The private discussion was first mentioned back in April by Alan D. Mutter on his Reflections of a Newsosaur.
Warren, who oversaw the layoffs of 100 staffers at the Chicago Tribune last year as the paper’s managing editor, said that expects a large number of the publishers who attended to start charging for some online content because “they don’t know what else to do.” More after the jump
Despite an appearance by NAA’s CEO John Sturm a few weeks ago on The Colbert Report, the NAA has put forward a less public face in the past year. In addition to no longer packaging quarterly revenues last year, the NAA no longer publicizes its annual meeting, considering that most of the industry’s news has become routinely grim.
As for presentation, Warren noted that a few copyeditors could have been employed to avoid panel descriptions like the second session’s “Journalism Online: Presentation on proposed service to charge for access to newspaper content and to license that content that (sic) online aggregators.” Other topics included “Aggregating User Data” and “Fair Syndication Consortium/Attributor,” which looked at ways to track newspaper content across the web and get aggregators to pay up.
—NiemanLabs: Why so hush-hush? Not because the newspaper executives are opposed to an open debate. It’s because they’re worried about possible antitrust violations. Alluding to a memo from NAA’s Sturm, NiemanLabs points out that an industry gathering to discuss setting up paywalls could have the appearance of an illegal cartel. Newspapers would like an antitrust exemption to build up paywalls across their sites and fashion some industry guidelines. NiemanLabs counts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a supporter, but the Obama administration is against it.
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| Thu, May 28, 2009 |
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Newspaper Publishers Hold Secret Confab On Charging For Web Content
Two dozen newspaper publishers, including representatives from the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT), Gannett (NYSE: GCI), E. W. Scripps, Advance Publications, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company, Hearst Newspapers, MediaNews Group, the Associated Press, Philadelphia Media Holdings, Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) and Freedom Communications, quietly attended the Newspaper Association of America’s annual meeting in Chicago today to discuss ways of charging readers for online content. The Atlantic’s James Warren has the agenda for the “Models to Monetize Content” conference. The event was organized by the Newspaper Association of America, though it was not listed on its website. The private discussion was first mentioned back in April by Alan D. Mutter on his Reflections of a Newsosaur.
Warren, who oversaw the layoffs of 100 staffers at the Chicago Tribune last year as the paper’s managing editor, said that expects a large number of the publishers who attended to start charging for some online content because “they don’t know what else to do.” More after the jump
Despite an appearance by NAA’s CEO John Strum a few weeks ago on The Colbert Report, the NAA has put forward a less public face in the past year. In addition to no longer packaging quarterly revenues last year, the NAA no longer publicizes its annual meeting, considering that most of the industry’s news has become routinely grim.
As for presentation, Warren noted that a few copyeditors could have been employed to avoid panel descriptions like the second session’s “Journalism Online: Presentation on proposed service to charge for access to newspaper content and to license that content that (sic) online aggregators.” Other topics included “Aggregating User Data” and “Fair Syndication Consortium/Attributor,” which looked at ways to track newspaper content across the web and get aggregators to pay up.
—NiemanLabs: Why so hush-hush? Not because the newspaper executives are opposed to an open debate. It’s because they’re worried about possible antitrust violations. Alluding to a memo from NAA’s Sturm, NiemanLabs points out that an industry gathering to discuss setting up paywalls could have the appearance of an illegal cartel. Newspapers would like an antitrust exemption to build up paywalls across their sites and fashion some industry guidelines. NiemanLabs counts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a supporter, but the Obama administration is against it.
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Newspaper Publishers Hold Secret Confab On Paid Content
Two dozen newspaper publishers, including representatives from the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT), Gannett (NYSE: GCI), E. W. Scripps, Advance Publications, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company, Hearst Newspapers, MediaNews Group, the Associated Press, Philadelphia Media Holdings, Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) and Freedom Communications, quietly attended the Newspaper Association of America’s annual meeting in Chicago today to discuss ways of charging readers for online content. The Atlantic’s James Warren has the agenda for the “Models to Monetize Content” conference. The event was organized by the Newspaper Association of America, though it was not listed on its website. The private discussion was first mentioned back in April by Alan D. Mutter on his Reflections of a Newsosaur.
Warren, who oversaw the layoffs of 100 staffers at the Chicago Tribune last year as the paper’s managing editor, said that expects a large number of the publishers who attended to start charging for some online content because “they don’t know what else to do.” More after the jump
Despite an appearance by NAA’s CEO John Strum a few weeks ago on The Colbert Report, the NAA has put forward a less public face in the past year. In addition to no longer packaging quarterly revenues last year, the NAA no longer publicizes its annual meeting, considering that most of the industry’s news has become routinely grim.
As for presentation, Warren noted that a few copyeditors could have been employed to avoid panel descriptions like the second session’s “Journalism Online: Presentation on proposed service to charge for access to newspaper content and to license that content that (sic) online aggregators.” Other topics included “Aggregating User Data” and “Fair Syndication Consortium/Attributor,” which looked at ways to track newspaper content across the web and get aggregators to pay up.
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| Thu, May 21, 2009 |
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Yahoo Newspaper Consortium Has Generated Estimated $50 Million In Revenues
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) execs have always been more than a little circumspect when it comes to discussing how well the 800-member Yahoo Newspaper Consortium is doing. But AdAge’s Nat Ives has done some math and estimates that the alliance has sold $50 million in Yahoo ad inventory, with about “several million” dollars in sales being added each week. And although Yahoo doesn’t like to provide figures, since last fall, a number of consortium members have been singing its praises, especially since Yahoo began rolling out its APT ad distribution and targeting system for its newspaper partners earlier this year. EW Scripps (NYSE: SSP) has praised the program, saying its contributed a 30 percent gain in online ad revenues in Q1, or roughly $800,000.
And while Cox Newspapers’ Atlanta Journal Constitution wasn’t able to make much of its own internal targeting efforts over the past five years due to a lack of inventory, by adding Yahoo’s inventory to the mix, the paper was able to expand its coverage area and attract telecom and fast food marketers that typically concentrated on billboards, not newspapers. In addition to the hope APT has provided, as we noted earlier, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) plans to work with Yahoo on offering “rate incentives” to advertisers to encourage them to purchase ad inventory more regularly.
While all this is well and good, some newspaper consortium members I’ve spoken to are a little concerned that Yahoo may be considering a sale of its HotJobs property. And though even online help wanteds have been down across the board due to the economy, many members have been counting on it to help offset the declines.
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