The Sacramento area is fast becoming Ground Zero for local blog networks. McClatchy’s Sacramento Connect, a project carved from The Sacramento Bee, is a content connector for 70+ area blogs and Web sites. It started incubating last summer and was…
Gannett’s local newspapers and TV stations will begin selling Yahoo inventory, considerably boosting the size of Yahoo’s local sales efforts. The deal, which involves 81 newspaper organizations and seven of its 23 TV stations, is similar to the efforts of…
Michael Zimbalist, who runs R&D at The New York Times Co., told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco yesterday that the rise of social networks has spearheaded a very real shift from “the paradigm of publishing to the…
Groupon announced today that it will work with McClatchy, the third-largest newspaper chain, in 28 McClatchy markets. The rollout begins this month in Sacramento and Kansas City. Other McClatchy markets will be added over the next several months, possibly including…
Newspapers aren’t doing well, but they still represent one of the leading ways to reach audiences, online as well as in print. New data from comScore Media Metrix, apparently released to coincide with Editor and Publisher’s Interactive Media Conference taking…
Newspapers aren’t doing well, but they still represent one of the leading ways to reach audiences, online as well as in print. New data from comScore Media Metrix, apparently released to coincide with Editor and Publisher’s Interactive Media Conference taking…
When it comes to hyperlocal, the problem may just be that the local reporting doesn't reasonate with the community as much as the old community papers did. That's the feeling behind Main Street Connect, a new company launched by a…
When it comes to hyperlocal, the problem may just be that the local reporting doesn't reasonate with the community as much as the old community papers did. That's the feeling behind Main Street Connect, a new company launched by a…
On the heels of Groupon's $135 million round (and $1 billion valuation), Living Social has stepped up to the plate with a new $14 million C round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with U.S. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures and Steve…
The local and community news “aggregator” space is poised to become increasingly important. Local news staffs, obviously, are being whittled away with the declining economics of local news. But there is more local content than ever, via blogs, pro/amateur content,…
Outside.in, a major aggregator of local blogs, has begun the integration with CNN that was announced last December at our Interactive Local Media conference in L.A. First up is integration with CNN’s home page, weather page and profile page. On…
McClatchy Co., the third-largest newspaper entity with 30 newspapers in 29 markets, including The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee, will aggressively target SMBs in each of its markets via an extended deal with WebVisible. The deal, per release, “will…
Local news cooperatives are now in development in San Diego, Chicago, Hawaii and San Francisco. The latter, known as The Bay Area News Project, is building up with a $5 million investment from philanthropist Warren Hellman, who apparently thought it…
Coupons are hot in a down economy, and printable online coupons -- and even mobile coupons -- are gaining share in the coupon business. But local SMBs aren’t always in on the game, as coupon sites frequently gravitate toward one-stop…
Demand Media, Associated Content and Examiner.com are each building up an arsenal of highly searchable “long tail” content. Now add Perfect Market to their ranks, a new company that seeks to provide the same “long tail” search optimized earnings capabilities…
Wired on the iPad, via All Things D Next month, Apple’s iPad comes out (and I will buy one). But what will be the impact of iPads and tablets from other companies on traditional media? Many are considering it to…
Canpages, the leading competitive directory publisher in Canada, appears to be making a play for the CanWest media properties, which would greatly expand and diversify Canpages' operations. According to a story this week in the Globe and Mail, Canpages is…
Zvents, the events lister, is reporting 35 percent year over year growth with over eight million unique visitors, largely due to its powering events for 285 local media brands, including major newspapers and the NBC owned-and-operated TV stations. CEO Ethan…
Gannett has always seemed to be a likely directory player. In fact, the world's largest newspaper publisher owns a small group of print directories. It also provides a white-labeled online directory product to its media properties. But as directories, search…
