Comments on: Newspapers investing in news

By: Online coverage [or lack thereof] of Senator Tim Johnson’s emergency health condition at charisma:18

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:55:11 +0000

[...] Ironically, I am finding topix.net to be a pretty solid resource for finding additional coverage of the story by local and national, old (television) and new media (blogs.) You may or may not remember that Gannett (Argus Leader’s parent company) is a major stakeholder in the online news aggregator. [...]

By: Blogs can’t compete with Newspapers. at charisma:18

Blogs can’t compete with Newspapers. at charisma:18 — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:20:01 +0000

[...] So why the rant? I’m intrigued by the number of newspaper vs. blog comments stemming from the recent newspaper initiative announcements. Marshall Kirkpatrick commented on the local blogging networks serving as incredible competition to newspapers (my emphasis) in a recent post regarding the Yahoo! / newspaper deal. I think I even made a fuzzy, but similar, comment in one of my own posts. [...]

By: Newspapers strike deal with Yahoo! at charisma:18

Newspapers strike deal with Yahoo! at charisma:18 — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:21:39 +0000

[...] Earlier this month Gannett, Tribune, and McClatchy (which recently absorbed Knight Ridder properties) made news for their investment into topix.net, an online news aggregator. Gannett also announced a community publishing initiative to leverage crowd sourcing. [...]