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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Newspapers adjust to economy by sharing content
Posted by Anthony Salveggi on Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:03 PM
The Washington Post and Baltimore Sun are dealing with their smaller newsrooms by pooling resources and sharing coverage. This is significant, because they are using their respective staffs to do the actual news gathering and reporting, not just aggregation. It's part of an increasingly popular trend:
In the last few months, papers around the country have struck several content-sharing agreements of varying degrees, including The Miami Herald, The Palm Beach Post and The Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale; The Dallas Morning News and Star-Telegram of Fort Worth; and a group of eight major papers in Ohio.“This is something that, as recently as two years ago, you really wouldn’t have seen papers doing at all,” said Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst at the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit school for journalists that owns the St. Petersburg Times. “In the current climate where there’s such urgency to get savings to keep pace with the falling ad revenue, I think this is snowballing from one place to another.”
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This may also be a way to continue to produce content without the threat of lawsuits from aggregation as what's happenening to the New York Times: http://www.dmnews.com/Media-aggregation-under-scrutiny-in-NYT-Co-lawsuit/article/123345/ Key quote: Media aggregation under scrutiny in NYT Co. lawsuit Nathan Golia December 24, 2008 * Print * Email * Reprint * Font Size: A | A | A * * Gatehouse Media, a Fairport, NY-based company that owns several local newspapers, has sued The New York Times Co. for alleged improper use of GateHouse headlines and content on some New York Times Co. local Web sites in the Boston area. The case between the two online publishers could impact future policy surrounding media aggregation. In the complaint, filed on December 22 in a Massachusetts federal court, GateHouse said that content aggregated on a Boston.com Your Town local Web site for the town of Newton is improperly lifted from some of its properties, including the Newton TAB's Wicked Local Web site. “Upon reviewing the Boston.com/Newton site we quickly determined that Boston.com was directly copying from Wicked Local Newton and other publications and using that as a large part of their site's presentation, very little of which appears to be original content generated by Boston.com or related publications,” said Gregory Reibman, editor-in-chief of the Metro unit at GateHouse Media New England, in an affidavit. “By copying our Web site content, Boston.com avoids the expense and burden of hiring or paying journalists to cover… local events.”
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