This week, web publishing focuses on the ways digital media is making headlines. From the mobile web to new careers, digital media is at the forefront of the media business model.
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Web Publishing Roll-up: Digital Media is Hiring, Mobile Web Gets New Tools
There’s never a dull moment for web publishing, especially in 2010.
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Web Publishing: Google vs China, Murdoch vs News Aggregators
There’s no rest for the weary when it comes to web publishing. From Twitter to mobile news to YouTube, the news industry has many issues to consider when evaluating their presence in news media.
Let’s Begin with Twitter.
This week in Web Publishing brings us some sage advice, courtesy of ReadWriteWeb COO, Bernard Lunn.
He encourages bloggers and journalists to look optimistically to the future, rid ourselves of all the bad elements of what weighs the publishing industry down and keep the parts that make up happy — namely a strong desire to find the truth, among others.
He also recommends evaluating the reasons we rely and respect true journalism and ultimately accept that it costs money. “Until we as an industry can do a better job at monetizing quality at correlating quality with revenue,” Lunn says “the sensible business decision is simply to go after page views, any page views.”
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Web Publishing Roll Up: Increasing Prices, Online Presence
Back in October, the New York Times created and released a Campaign Finance API (Application Programming Interface). Designed to let users analyze and re-use some of the data the NYT had been looking at while reporting on the presidential campaign, the API offered overall figures for presidential candidates, as well as state-by-state and ZIP code totals for specific candidates. They also launched a movie API, which allows users to search New York Times movie reviews by keyword and get lists of NYT Critics’ Picks.
Now the Times has released a new
