This year brought a record number of entries to the Digital Edge Awards (“The Edgies”), which are now part of the NAA Media Innovation Awards. The MedIAs emphasize growing strategy and innovation across newspaper media, especially in the areas of audience and revenue. The Digital Edge categories specifically honor newspapers’ best online news, interactive communication and advertising programs.

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The struggle for large urban newspapers to stay in business has largely been an effort on the part of their managements to increase revenue on the Internet faster than it is lost in their print editions. It has become clear that the race is becoming one that newspapers are unlikely to win. Internet revenue for some online editions is actually dropping. Print advertising is going down as fast as it did in 2008. Several large newspapers including The Rocky Mountain News have folded in the last year. The owners of other papers, particularly The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle, have threatened to fold these properties unless workers are willing to accept significant cuts in people or compensation.

What is the future of online newspapers? And how do they complement the traditional versions? Roy Greenslade looks at news on the web - and asks whether having a website can influence a title's circulation

Главная деловая газета отметила своё десятилетие сменой дизайна

New York News, Traffic, Sports, Weather, Entertainment and Gossip

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Throughout the year, The Digital Edge focuses on emerging technology trends and newspaper innovation, including online communities, video and mobile.

Newspapers are dying. At the Washington Post Co., CEO Donald Graham is banking on the Internet to save serious journalism. If he can't figure this out, nobody can. Fortune's Marc Gunther reports.

Longtime online news consultant Vin Crosbie says newspapers and their Web sites must change their approach to publishing news -- online and off -- if they want to successfully compete with the many Web sites and other new information sources vying for readers' attention and loyalty.

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During the fourth session of WAN’s Readership Conference in Amsterdam in October 16-17, 2008, Mario Garcia, President, Garcia Media, USA spoke about how we can attract and retain the attention of people who think fast, absorb fast and demand new information faster than any generation that preceded it.

Впечатления Марио Гарсиа от внешнего вида российских изданий, записанные с его слов

Интересно, что по дизайну иные газеты начинают быть похожими на журналы. Последние всегда отличались прежде всего наличием переплета или же – и это чаще всего – мягкой обложки, своеобразной крышки издания (декоративной или шрифтовой, рисованной или наборной), защищающей блок от загрязнения и разрушения. На первой странице обложки всегда размещался логотип, а теперь и анонсы, и иллюстрации, на второй, третьей, четвертой – самая дорогая реклама.

A weblog about newspaper design, etc.

Google is developing a micropayment platform that will be “available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year,” according to a document the company submitted to the Newspaper Association of America. The system, an extension of Google Checkout, would be a new and unexpected option for the news industry as it considers how to charge for content online.

Could good design save the newspaper -- at least for now? Jacek Utko thinks so -- and his lively, engaging designs for European papers prove that it works.

Bits offers a steady stream of news and analysis on the technology industry throughout the day from New York Times writers and freelancers. We cover start-ups, tech leaders like Google and Apple, enterprise technology, government policies and the way the Internet is changing how we live and work. Read more.

The funny thing about newspapers today is that their audience is growing at a remarkable clip. Their underlying business model is being attacked by multiple forces, but their online audience is growing faster than their print audience is shrinking. As of January, print circulation had declined from 62 million to 49 million since my days at the College Hill Bookstore. But their online audience has grown from zero to 75 million over that period. Measured by pure audience interest, newspapers have never been more relevant. If they embrace this role as an authoritative guide to the entire ecosystem of news, if they stop paying for content that the web is already generating on its own, I suspect in the long run they will be as sustainable and as vital as they have ever been. The implied motto of every paper in the country should be: all the news that’s fit to link.

Print is undead—and NYC is the only city where you can still read all about it