Google to put more newspaper content on Google News
Google is organizing archives and feeds of newspapers around the globe, starting with U.S. newspaper content that has been offline to this point.
Google Vice President Marissa Mayer is expected to announce this, and demo it, at 11:45am at the TechCrunch50 conference. This new data will be served up on Google News and Google News Archives.
Google provides the following example of what it is doing: Let’s say you want to learn more about the landing on… Continue Reading
Newspapers can’t innovate — need “Switzerland Inc.” to survive
Tom Mohr ran the online properties of Knight Ridder, the second largest newspaper company in the country, until it was sold to McClatchy this year.
He has just written a piece for Editor & Publisher, which is the equivalent of a Clarion call for action for the newspaper industry. The nation’s struggling newspapers desperately need to join forces and form a single company (which he calls “Switzerland Inc.”) to help them survive in the new… Continue Reading