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Writer Made ScapegoatAt Huffington Post?

Writer Made ScapegoatAt Huffington Post?

HuffPo scribe suspended for cribbing another writer's story, despite site's tradition of repacking others' copy.

 

Looks like Murdoch’s just started blocking search engines

Looks like Murdoch’s just started blocking search engines

Remember when Rupert Murdoch caused a stir by saying that he was going to start blocking news search services like Google News from carrying his sites’ stories? Well, it looks like he’s started.

 

Google Unveils News-by-Topic Service

The new service presents news online by topic and was developed in collaboration with The New York Times and The Washington Post.

 

Drive-by Traffic, They Say It Like It's a Bad Thing

Drive-by Traffic, They Say It Like It's a Bad Thing

Rupert Murdoch, and a couple of his fellow newspaper-owners, say that traffic coming from search engines and aggregation sites are worthless. They call it "drive-by traffic." These users only come, read one article and then leave. For an industry profusely bleeding users and revenue, you would think they wouldn't be so discriminatory when it comes to users consuming their content.

 

Google to limit free news access

Google to limit free news access

Google will let newspaper publishers limit the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine.

 

If The WSJ.com Says Goodbye To Google, It Will Also Say Goodbye To 25 Percent Of Its Traffic

If The WSJ.com Says Goodbye To Google, It Will Also Say Goodbye To 25 Percent Of Its Traffic

Whenever Rupert Murdoch goes back to his home country of Australia, he loosens up and says things to the press (usually his own outlets) that he might not say in the U.S. Of course, everyone in the U.S. picks up on it and it becomes a big story, as it did today after Murdoch told his own Sky News that he might start blocking Google and other search engines from giving searchers full access to articles on the Wall Street Journal's website, WSJ.com.

 

News Aggregation vs. Rupert Murdoch and the Associated Press

Having managed two aggregation sites, I really wanted to write something original and insightful to dispel what Rupert Murdoch and the Associated Press had been spewing out to the media regarding news aggregators.

 

Reuters Tells AP: “Stop Whining”

The Associated Press has been making controversial moves in the online space recently, including a plan to charge $12.50 for quoting 5 words of an AP story and enforcing strict social media rules on its staff.

 

AP's Curley Has Fightin' Words For Google

AP's Curley Has Fightin' Words For Google

Associated Press Chief Tom Curley threatens a news blackout. Will Google flinch?

 

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