News tagged with digital news

Knight Foundation awards NPR $1.5M for web news

(AP) -- NPR is getting a $1.5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to boost web training and content at member stations nationwide.

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Time Warner picks Digitas CEO to run magazines

Time Warner on Wednesday named Laura Lang, chief executive of digital marketing agency Digitas, to run its extensive stable of magazines, which includes Time, People and Sports Illustrated.

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Pew study: Tablet users don't want to pay for news

Although tablet owners spend more time consuming news than poking around on Facebook, they're reluctant to pay for news content.

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Yahoo, ABC joining forces in news partnership

(AP) -- ABC News is joining forces with Yahoo Inc. to deliver more digital news content to their audiences. With the deal, ABC News content will be prominently featured on the Yahoo News and Yahoo front page.

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BBC News, Al Jazeera take online journalism honors

BBC News, Al Jazeera and The Los Angeles Times scooped up the top prizes as the Online News Association (ONA) handed out its annual awards on Saturday.

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created Sep 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Sony's 'Smurfs,' 'Friends' to be UltraViolet-ready

(AP) -- Sony Corp.'s movie studio said Tuesday that "The Smurfs" and "Friends With Benefits" will be the first movies it releases on home video that will be compatible with the UltraViolet view-anywhere system.

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'Culturomics 2.0' forecasts human behavior by supercomputing global news

A paper published yesterday in the peer-reviewed journal First Monday combines advanced supercomputing with a quarter-century of worldwide news to forecast and visualize human behavior, from civil unrest to the movement of ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Apple discontinues 99-cent rentals of TV shows

Apple Inc. has pulled the plug on its 99-cent rentals of television show episodes after making a push last year to persuade TV networks to sign on to the plan.

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created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 4

FAA probing News Corp.'s use of drones

(AP) -- With the newsgathering techniques of its sister publications in Britain under fire, News Corp. is facing a probe into the use of drones by its U.S.-based digital publication, The Daily.

Technology / Engineering

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Philly papers offer Android tablets with paid apps

The city's two major newspapers announced Monday that they will give free Android tablet computers to paid digital subscribers as part of a new venture designed to shore up readership and revenue nearly a ...

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Media boss Murdoch rallies Internet for education

Media baron Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday urged Internet companies to pull out the stops in developing digital education programmes to revolutionise the world's classrooms.

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Google stops digitizing old newspapers

Google on Friday had stopped digitizing old newspapers as publishers sought to make money off story archives instead of having them hosted free online.

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News Corp. buys videogame news sites from Hearst

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. announced Thursday the acquisition of Hearst Corp.'s UGO Entertainment, expanding its reach over online videogame news.

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Doctored bin Laden corpse photos go viral, global

(AP) -- The images are bloody, grotesque and convincing: Osama bin Laden lies dead, the left side of his head blasted away. But the pictures are fakes.

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NY Times unveils digital subscription plan (Update)

The New York Times unveiled plans Thursday to begin charging for full access to its website in a move that will be closely watched by other newspapers looking to boost online revenue.

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