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Owning history – one newspaper at a time
Google made yet another of its content-annexing announcements today: Today, we’re launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives. For consumers, what’s not to like (if you’re a lover of accidental monopolies). For Google, the more searchworthy content,…
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Newspaper revenues: the end of the golden age
The ever-readable Robert Picard has the best piece (subscription) in the new edition of Journalism Studies. The abstract lays it on the line: The author finds that the relationship between GDP and expenditures is weakening, that growth is not keeping pace with inflation, and that there is greater volatility in advertising than seen in the…