After a decade of watching newspapers and rival wire services shrink, The Associated Press, the 161-year-old news cooperative, is refitting itself to handle the 24-hour news cycle it helped create. “You have to adjust to the marketplace,” said Jim Kennedy, The A.P.’s vice president for strategic planning. “The new generation of consumers has completely different habits.” To [...]

Consumer and corporate Internet usage could outstrip network capacity both in North America and worldwide in a little more than two years, says a new study. Young boys and girls surf in the internet in Carlsbad in California, October 2007. Nearly 75 percent of U.S. Internet users watched an average of 158 minutes of online video [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook is good for keeping up with high-flying buddies, MySpace is for teenage offspring and the BlackBerry is a full-time addiction, according to top media executives who were quizzed on their personal media habits at this week’s Reuters Media Summit. “I may be the only human being on earth who’s on MySpace [...]

NEW YORK – Leading news organizations and other publishers have proposed changing the rules that tell search engines what they can and can’t collect when scouring the Web, saying the revisions would give site owners greater control over their content. Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and other top search companies now voluntarily respect a Web site’s wishes [...]

The new, wholly owned Internet subsidiary of HT Media Ltd, Firefly eVentures Ltd has acquired social networking site Desimartini.com in an attempt to enter one of the fastest growing segments in the Indian Internet space. Terms were not being disclosed, though HT Media said it was for less than $10 million (Rs 39.3 crore). “Everything is [...]

Newspaper websites saw ad spending rise 21.1 percent to $773 million in Q3 versus the same period last year, according to estimates from the Newspaper Association of America. While online ad spending has been slowing down in general, newspaper website ad spend gains appear relatively stable. As the NAA noted in Q306, the category’s growth [...]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNESCO will collaborate on global efforts to forge universal standards towards building a multilingual cyberspace. The three agencies organised a workshop on this subject during the second Internet Governance Forum (IGF) taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 12-15, [...]

Reporters Without Borders today appealed to the countries taking party in the four-day Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that began yesterday in Rio not to allow the issue of online free expression to be eclipsed by the debate about the United States’ dominant role in Internet governance. Website domain names are managed by ICANN, a California-based non-profit [...]

Australian Facebook addicts beware. Users who spend too much work time on social networking sites risk losing their jobs if Britain’s experience is anything to go by. Research by one of the country’s top newspapers has shown how strongly employers are cracking down on inappropriate use of email and sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. Figures obtained [...]

Ifra will launch a vertical search engine for the newspaper industry in January, its CEO claimed. Opening the Beyond the Printed Word conference, in Dublin today, Reiner Mittelbach told delegates that the engine would help interested parties easily find news, information and reports on the newspaper business. Ifra’s project manager, Dr Amrei Wiederin, later told Journalism.co.uk that [...]

THE circulation declines of American newspapers continued over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released yesterday. The drop, reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, reflects the growing shift of readers to the Internet, where newspaper readership has climbed, and also [...]

The BBC has begun the controversial roll-out of adverts on its BBC.com international news website. BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial arm, hopes the move will bring in an estimated £70m a year. The BBC.com ads, which started to appear from yesterday in certain key markets such as the US, are framed at the top and on the [...]

Backed by a solid comms strategy, online magazine has established itself as a leader in breaking news When it was founded in 1995, the general wisdom about Salon.com was that it was a great idea. A magazine – online only! The future is here! After the tech bubble burst and tons of seemingly brilliant online companies fizzled [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Do you find yourself going online more and more? You’re not alone. Four out of five U.S. adults go online now, according to a new Harris Poll. The survey, which polled 2,062 adults in July and October, found that 79 percent of adults — about 178 million — go online, spending an average [...]

Copyrighted work like a news article or a picture can hop between Web sites as easily as a cut-and-paste command. But more than ever, as that material finds new audiences, the original sources might not get the direct financial benefit — in fact, they might have little idea where their work has spread. A young company [...]