Social media challenge Google for news distribution

October 3, 2012
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The importance of search engines to traffic on news sites spawned an industry of consultants on search engine optimization (SEO). But now social media may be challenging the dominance of “Google juice.”The percentage of Americans getting their news via social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ has risen to 19 percent, more than double […]

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Newspaper culture still blocks move to digital

March 29, 2012
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Gumersindo Lafuente of El Pais (photo by James Breiner Versión en español aquí. The culture war of print vs. digital rages on and continues to block the transformation of the newspaper industry. An incident at Spain’s most prestigious daily and a study of 38 U.S. newspapers both made this clearer recently. At El Pais in […]

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