Read more online news stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3965/online-news.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:40:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73628/news-corp-may-shield-all-content-from-google.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNews Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch wants to put a permanent end to “parasite” Google’s “kleptomania” when it comes to content on his newspapers’ websites. Murdoch says the Wall Street Journal and others will likely be removed from Google’s search registry “when we start charging”—that is, when planned paywalls go...http://www.newser.com/story/73628/news-corp-may-shield-all-content-from-google.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 12:52:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72204/guardian-axes-american-website-after-2-years.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGuardian News and Media, which lost $60.3 million last year, is shutting its US-centered website Guardian America after two years. The site will now redirect to the Guardian newspaper's American coverage. Guardian America's head will instead focus on international expansion for guardian.co.uk. "We took it down because...http://www.newser.com/story/72204/guardian-axes-american-website-after-2-years.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 4:15:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68767/tragedy-porn-drags-down-news-sources.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWord is that newspapers will soon start charging for online news—but no one’s quite sure what it’s worth. Take a story like the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping: It’s “tragedy porn” that “neither informs nor enlightens. It merely titillates,” writes Simon Dumenco for Advertising Age . “It's an extreme case, sure,” he...http://www.newser.com/story/68767/tragedy-porn-drags-down-news-sources.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 07 Sep 2009 14:21:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67438/news-corp-talks-universal-paywall-with-times-post.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagExecutives at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. have been meeting with rival newspaper publishers about a consortium that would charge for web content. The publishers of the New York Times , Washington Post , and Los Angeles Times are all believed to have met with Jonathan Miller, the News Corp. officer overseeing digital...http://www.newser.com/story/67438/news-corp-talks-universal-paywall-with-times-post.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 21 Aug 2009 8:05:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66445/rather-prez-must-save-newspapers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe media's troubles mean that "this country is in trouble," writes Dan Rather, and no academic study or think-tank report is going to save the industry. We need no less than a “nonpartisan, blue-ribbon” presidential commission “to address the perilous state of America’s news media,” and make recommendations as to...http://www.newser.com/story/66445/rather-prez-must-save-newspapers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 09 Aug 2009 10:10:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66221/no-more-free-news-online-murdoch.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRupert Murdoch says the days of News Corp.'s giving away news from its newspapers and TV stations on the Internet are numbered, the Financial Times reports. Murdoch, who earlier this year said he planned to test pay-to-read models, now says he plans to start charging for access to all...http://www.newser.com/story/66221/no-more-free-news-online-murdoch.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 06 Aug 2009 2:17:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66056/radio-was-gonna-kill-newspapers-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs newspapers hemorrhage cash, the refrain is getting louder: the Web is sucking away their audiences and can never replicate the serious journalism they offer. The argument sounds familiar, Jack Shafer writes for Slate: It’s the one newspapers used against radio 80 years ago. Radio was then seen as the...http://www.newser.com/story/66056/radio-was-gonna-kill-newspapers-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Aug 2009 11:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65289/wire-creator-simon-nyt-post-must-charge-for-web.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHow to save newspapers and, in fact, journalism itself? Wire creator (and former newspaperman) David Simon implores the publishers of the New York Times and the Washington Post to start charging for their websites. “Content matters," he writes in the Columbia Journalism Review . "And you must find a way, in...http://www.newser.com/story/65289/wire-creator-simon-nyt-post-must-charge-for-web.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 25 Jul 2009 14:44:40 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63283/politicos-obsessive-focus-is-future-of-news.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIf you want to see the future of news—and how it will be delivered—look no further than Politico as a reasonable guide, writes Newser founder Michael Wolff in Vanity Fair. Unlike general-interest newspapers, which flail about knowing too little about everything, Politico has an obsessive focus: “It exalts,...http://www.newser.com/story/63283/politicos-obsessive-focus-is-future-of-news.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 01 Jul 2009 18:27:58 CDT