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Newsday Web traffic down 21% since paywall was built

December 12, 2009
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(News Cycle) Nielsen data shows that Newsday.com drew 1.7 million unique visitors in November, well below the 2.1 million total for October. Page views were down to 18.6 million in November, which is a 34 percent drop from the previous month. The year-to-year comparison showed a 43 percent decline in unique visitors in November....
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What Google can do to help journalism

December 10, 2009
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By Michael Massing I propose that Google set up a Journalism Innovators’ Fund with an initial annual budget of $100 million—less than 0.5 percent of the more than $20 billion it takes in annually. The fund would seek not to subsidize existing news operations but to support creative ideas and new programs aimed at...
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Nielsen kills Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews

December 10, 2009
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Nielsen kills Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews

Nielsen Business Media Update Message from Greg Farrar Dear Colleagues, Today, we announced that Nielsen Business Media has reached an agreement with e5 Global Media Holdings, LLC, a new company formed jointly by Pluribus Capital Management and Guggenheim Partners, for the sale of eight brands in the Media and Entertainment Group, including Adweek, Brandweek,...
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How fear, anger and disappointment brought political illustrator Zina Saunders fame, fortune and deep personal satisfaction

December 7, 2009
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Watch this. She is utterly fabulous. Zina Saunders from Gel Conference on Vimeo.
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Yep. Very entertaining.

July 14, 2009
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Yep. Very entertaining.

The annals of inappropriate departmentalization…or just the plain truth?
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