With big names like The New York Times, Newsday and The Wall Street Journal all with digital subscriptions for their readers, one NY community newspaper has had a functional paywall since 2003 -- The Wave. The paper, one of the city's oldest since 1893, serves the Rockaway Peninsula in [Full Story…]
Cablevision Launches Westchester Newsday App
May 2, 2012 at 9:36 am
Newsday for Westchester, a Newsday site with specific news for Westchester County, Rockland County, and Hudson Valley residents was launched this week by Cablevision. Available as an app on iPad and iPhone, it also delivers regional news and videos from other Cablevision properties, including News [Full Story…]
Westchester County Becomes Hub for Hyperlocal News
December 16, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Westchester County will soon become the center of NY's hyperlocal competition, as within four months, four major-media companies will be vying for dominance community by community, according to StreetFight. Opponents include Gannett, AOL’s Patch and MainStreetConnect. In addition, [Full Story…]
Newsday Hiring Editors for Westchester Digital Push
December 7, 2011 at 11:06 am
While Long Island newspaper Newsday is hiring 25 new editors, reporters and content specialists in a digital expansion into Westchester County, the publication is not returning to NY, an article on Poynter.com said. The Cablevision-owned firm told its staff that it plans to launch new digital [Full Story…]
Newsday Launches New App for iPhone, iPad and Android Devices
November 20, 2011 at 10:03 am
Long Island based (and Cablevision owned) newspaper Newsday has launched a new app for the iPhone and iPad, in addition to a similar app for Android phones. The apps offer extensive coverage on news happenings in the tri-state area and also deliver live streaming from ' TV channels News 12 and MSG [Full Story…]
Newsday Hires 31 Employees For Online/Local Needs
January 27, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Long Island paper Newsday recently announced that it hired 31 new staffers. In order to keep the paper relevant, the paper hired most new editorial staff to cover local news and to work on the online team. Fishbowl NY Previous: > Newsday Takes Down Paywall, but Only For a Month [Full Story…]
NYTimes Paywall Set for Early 2011
December 10, 2010 at 11:37 am
At the recent UBS media conference, New York Times CEO Janet Robinson confirmed that the long awaited 'metered paywall' for NYTimes.com will be put into effect in the first quarter of next year. The metered paywall is a somewhat softer approach to paid content with a limit being place on the amount [Full Story…]
Newsday Takes Down Paywall, but Only For a Month
December 9, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Long Island's Newsday redesigned its website and is offering free access for a month. In a letter reprinted on Poynter, Newsday Editor Debby Krenek said the most notable change is the new, fresh look with a lighter color scheme and darker text as well as a faster load time. She added that the [Full Story…]
Don’t Use iPad to Swat Flies, Newsday Ad Says
September 20, 2010 at 7:11 am
In a clever video commercial shown on mediabistro here, Long Island newspaper Newsday, promotes its iPad app, saying it is better than a newspaper in all kinds of ways, except one.mediabistroPrevious: > Is Cablevision Destroying 'Newsday'? [Full Story…]
Don’t Use iPad to Swat Flies, Newsday Ad Says
September 18, 2010 at 12:00 pm
In a clever video commercial shown on mediabistro here, Long Island newspaper Newsday, promotes its iPad app, saying it is better than a newspaper in all kinds of ways, except one. mediabistro [Full Story…]
Newsday Expands Hyperlocal Reporting
August 12, 2010 at 9:22 am
In an announcement yesterday, newspaper Newsday announced that its will be launching new iniatives to hire hire more reporters and to expand its coverage of of Long Island. One key part of these initiatives is that the paper plans to launch hundreds of hyperlocal webpages and to hire community [Full Story…]
“Brand The Way to Better Relationships” at June Event
June 2, 2010 at 7:13 am
An Internet Week event that purports to teach you how to "brand your way to better relationships: using the tools of social media to make you irresistible" will take place June 7, 6PM at the Samsung Experience, Time Warner Center. Speakers will include author Andrea Syrtash who wrote the [Full Story…]
Newsday‘s Paywall Experience Provides Lessons
March 11, 2010 at 9:35 am
Panelists on one of the afternoon sessions at the Media Summit 2010 at the McGraw Hill Building in Manhattan's Midtown this week discussed the problems associated with paywalls in light of Newsday's experience.Julie Michalowski, Vice President, Business Development, Conde Nast Consumer [Full Story…]
Is Cablevision Destroying ‘Newsday’?
March 4, 2010 at 10:48 am
The Long Island Press is accusing the Bethpage, LI-based cable operator Cablevision of "destroying" the newspaper which it purchased in 2008, citing: "Contentious" negotiations between management and Newsday’s 1,100-member strong union, the Graphic [Full Story…]
Newsday Relaunches Optimum Homes
February 6, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Newsday.com has relaunched its real estate ad portal called Optimum Homes. According to paidContent, the new "classified channel will fulfill part of the plans that Cablevision intended when it bought Newsday... Cablevision is betting that its sheer dominance will lead to greater revenues in [Full Story…]
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