As other print publications struggle to maintain great, expensive content in an age of changing economics and reader habits, it's heartening to watch an older institution gamely try new things.
A Dutch journalist named Rob Wijnberg has raised $1.3 million to launch a digital news site called De Correspondent that will focuses on context and quality content, rather than the hustle of the breaking news cycle.
The AP and New York Times win a battle with a content scraper.
The Washington Post at long last decides to charge for its digital content, but only for people who directly consume more than 20 articles a month from the online site.
Google and news publishers in Germany are going to have more problems before this all gets figured out, and this recent legislation is a complete waste of time.
The British are such beautiful bastards.
The Knight Foundation names the winners of the Knight News Challenge: Mobile.
Matter Ventures launches accelerator program on conjunction with KQED and The Knight Foundation to usher in next generation of media institutions.
YouTube has become a massive news destination, YouTube chief executive Salar Kamangar said in his acceptance speech, with 7000 hours of news-related footage uploaded every single day.
Wired editor Ryan Singel founds Contextly to make help digital journalists add more context to their stories.
Circa has released a new mobile app for news. And -- hallelujah -- it is most definitely not just another copycat attempt to cash in on the path that Flipboard and Pulse paved.
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Chris Dixon has one of the best posts I’ve seen on how startups should deal with the press. I added a few items in his comments, but thought they were worthy of sharing here.
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The tech business deserves a better press corps.
By “better,” I don’t mean “friendlier.” I mean journalists and bloggers that treat technology with the same serious and critical eye that is (or should be) afforded to presidential candidates and Fortune …
Over an ice coffee on an unseasonably warm January day, Longform co-founder Aaron Lammer took VentureBeat for a test drive through the startup’s new iPad app, which debuts today at noon. The company, which curates the best long form journalism …
VentureBeat is proud to announce the two newest members of our writing staff: Meghan Kelly and Chikodi Chima.
Meghan joins our team after a stellar four-month internship in our San Francisco office, where she helped cover new funding announcements as …
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