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Circulation Nominees sought for awards honoring newspaper retailers Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Retailers who have demonstrated long-term cooperative efforts to sell and market newspapers are honored annually by NAA with the Tony Mineart Merchandiser of the Year Awards. The NAA Single-Copy Committee welcomes your nominations of retailers who are open to ideas such as co-promotions or newspaper-specific promotions, or of retailers who in general do the best overall and ongoing job of promoting newspapers. Nominations are due Jan. 14. More
Events API Transformation Tour offers complete community connection Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Digital disruption is forcing editors and publishers to rethink how they produce and distribute news and information and engage with the communities they serve. At API's "Transformational Communities" workshop, you'll draft a plan to develop a sustainable role for your news organization that is meaningful and profitable. Join Chuck Peters, CEO of The Gazette Co. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for a game-changing, one-day workshop presented with The Poynter Institute on Dec. 7 in Arlington, Va., and on March 11 in Chicago. More
![]() Target, Best Buy top commercials of Thanksgiving week Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Advertising spots by Target Corp. and Best Buy Co. Inc. were noted by Adweek as among the top commercials of Thanksgiving week. The industry journal, in its pre-Black Friday wrap-up of ads, credits Best Buy and agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky for an ad that finds real-world examples of holiday gifts that changed lives, like a tiny camera that a mother gave to her son to help him document forests in Patagonia, or a couple that met and fell in love playing "Halo." More Wal-Mart reports 'best ever' Black Friday sales despite recent protests Supermarket News Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shoppers came out in stronger force than protesters as the holiday sales season kicked off for Wal-Mart, the retailer said. The company reported its "best ever" Black Friday sales event, serving 22 million customers as sales began Thanksgiving night. More
Should publishers invest in audience data? Depends on the publisher paidContent Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Web publishers can buy tools that let them identify and segment their readers, and then combine that information with other customer data to offer fine-grained audience options to advertisers. As the ad market gets more demanding, the tools may become essential for some — but not all. More GM is bringing Apple iPhone's 'Siri' to the car USA Today Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tech-savvy drivers who miss conversing with "Siri," the chatty electronic assistant built into newer Apple iPhones, are about to get a big assist from General Motors. GM said that it has found a way to link Siri to the new infotainment systems in its two smallest cars, Chevrolet Spark and Sonic. More
![]() NBC, Verizon strike TV Everywhere deal Broadcasting & Cable Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() NBCU has struck a program carriage deal with Verizon FiOS that includes rights to over-the-top delivery to multiple screens. "This comprehensive agreement benefits our viewers and Verizon's FiOS TV customers by making programming available across NBCUniversal's vast content portfolio wherever the viewer goes on any device," said Matt Bond, executive vice president, content distribution, NBCUniversal, in a statement. More Guardian's US site hits traffic high The Wrap Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just more than a year after the Guardian, the newspaper often dubbed Britain's New York Times, launched a new U.S. home page, the site is pulling in record traffic. The Guardian said its U.S. traffic exceeded 11.8 million unique visitors in October, up 6 percent from last year. "This is an important milestone for the Guardian," U.S. editor-in-chief Janine Gibson said in a statement. More
![]() Storify launches redesign; threat of competition from Twitter still looms GigaOM Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Storify, the San Francisco-based service that allows journalists and others to curate content from social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, has launched a new design that focuses on highlighting content that has been shared by Storify users — making it easy to see what the most popular tweet about Hurricane Sandy was, for example, or the best photo of the Israeli attack on Gaza. But what happens if Storify runs afoul of the social network's new API rules, and what happens when Twitter decides to release its own curation tools? More Why liveblogs outperform other online news formats by up to 300 percent Journalism.co.uk Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dr. Neil Thurman and Anna Walters, from City University London's Journalism School, have just published a study into liveblogging, which is becoming the default format for covering major breaking news stories, sports events and scheduled news — like the U.S. presidential election — on the Web. Here Thurman explains their appeal to readers. More Digital customers now rule the world. Are you ready? Forbes Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone believes that rapidly advancing technology is changing the game, but that's only half the challenge businesses face. The more significant challenge is this: Digital customers are changing the rules. Armed with smartphones and tablets, today's customers are digitally connected, always on, socially networked, and better informed and more empowered than ever. More
![]() News companies use Cyber Monday to attract subscribers, push coupons Neiman Journalism Lab Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() News companies aren't just covering Cyber Monday this year — they're hawking their own wares, trying to woo new subscribers with holiday discounts. Discounted subscription offers have a long history in the news business. But digital subscriptions are still relatively new, which means getting exposure to new customers is key. And Cyber Monday is an opportunity to reinforce the idea that print advertising and coupons in the print newspaper are still useful. More Why newspapers matter News & Tech Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The events of the last few weeks — analysis of the recent presidential election, the heartrending stories about victims of Hurricane Sandy — reflect in sharp relief what a newspaper means to the local community. More |
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