The latest attempt to make hyperlocal a sustainable reality came today with Allbritton Communications’ launch of TBD.com, a hyper metro site for the Washington DC area. Allbritton, which has sunk “under $5 million” into the project to date, hopes it will grab hold of the DC audience in the same way that its [...]
Category Archives: Newspapers
Sacramento Emerges as ‘Ground Zero’ for Blogger Networks
August 2, 2010 – 7:23 pm
The Sacramento area is fast becoming Ground Zero for local blog networks. McClatchy’s Sacramento Connect, a project carved from The Sacramento Bee, is a content connector for 70+ area blogs and websites. It first started incubating last summer, and was fully in place by March.
Connect, which is sub-titled “best of the local Web,” can [...]
Yahoo’s Lem Lloyd on Gannett/Yahoo Deal
July 19, 2010 – 8:12 pm
Gannett’s local newspapers and TV stations will begin selling Yahoo inventory, considerably boosting the size of Yahoo’s local sales efforts. The deal, which involves 81 newspaper organizations and seven of its 23 TV stations– is similar to the efforts of Yahoo’s 800 member Newspaper Consortium.
But Gannett, notably, is staying separate from the Consortium. In [...]
NYT’s Zimbalist at Inman: Everything Must Sync
July 15, 2010 – 4:22 pm
Michael Zimbalist, who runs R&D at The New York Times Co., told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco yesterday that the rise of social networks has spearheaded a very real shift from “the paradigm of publishing to the paradigm of communicating.”
“The consumer is squarely at the center,” said Zimbalist, noting that there are [...]
Groupon, McClatchy Team for Daily Deals in 28 Markets
July 1, 2010 – 10:53 pm
Groupon announced today that it will work with McClatchy, the third largest newspaper chain, in 28 McClatchy markets. The rollout begins this month in Sacramento and Kansas City. Other McClatchy markets will be added over the next several months, possibly including titles in Ft. Worth, Miami, Charlotte and Raleigh.
Like Living Social’s earlier deal with The [...]
ComScore’s Top 10 Online Newspaper Companies (By Usage)
June 16, 2010 – 11:09 pm
Newspapers aren’t doing well, but they still represent one of the leading ways to reach audiences, online as well as in print. New data from ComScore Media Metrix, apparently released to coincide with Editor and Publisher’s Interactive Media Conference taking place in Las Vegas, showed that 57 percent of Internet users in the U.S. looked [...]
SB Nation Set to Launch 20 Regional Sports Sites
June 7, 2010 – 5:06 pm
SB Nation, the fan-centric sports blog launched by Kos.com founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and Tyler Bleszinski and run by former AOL EVP Jim Bankoff, is launching 20 regional sites this month. The sites, themed “your new local sports page,” are expected to complement SB Nation’s 255 sites that are oriented around sports teams, and [...]
