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Archive for October, 2005

Fox’s Internet Plans and a Yahoo News Brush Off

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Fortune earlier this week released an interesting interview with Ross Levinsohn, News Corp.’s new Internet strategy. Here is a little dig at Yahoo News:
we happen to have vast content resources that players like Yahoo are only just starting to build. So you’d have to ask Lloyd Braun (the former ABC Network executive who heads […]

Weblogs, Inc.: How to Improve Google Ad Income

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Here is a Google AdSense Case Study entitled: Weblogs, Inc. grew blog ad revenue from $200 to $3000 a day
It is really a how to make money at your blog. Weblogs, Inc. is the operation that was sold to AOL for somewhere up to $25 million.
Yes the case study by Google […]

What Professors Say About Judith Miller Case

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Somewhere in the Judith Miller case there are interesting lessons to be learned.
I don’t much care for the American Prospect blame game question:
Heads are likely to roll at The New York Times. We asked the experts who deserves the blame.
However, I do like the answers from the professors, mainly because they help […]

SPJ Conference Gets Freedom from Wifi Award

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

I know given the Judith Miller/SPJ First Amendment award flap that this next piece of news, posted as part of a comment at PJNet by Jill Miller Zimon, might sound trivial. However, as a SPJ conference attendee, she writes:
You probably don’t want to know that the conference - for hundreds of journalists - was […]

Citizen Site Counts Iraqi Dead, Newsrooms Use It

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Interesting story in Monday’s Atlanta Journal Constitution about how two citizens have meticulously counted the dead in Iraq. Soliders’ families appreciate the effort and so do newsrooms.
The count can be found at icasualties.org. It is extremely comprehensive with all kinds of metrics from ethnicity to home state to place of death to rank. […]

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