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I once wrote that your news website can win the online election coverage race through aggregation. But I want you to forget focusing on web election coverage.
Because aggregation can help you win the whole online game altogether, judging [...]

In a lot of ways, the New York Times website sets the standard for online content. But even the Times could learn a thing or two about making a story more relevant to we b readers.
The NYT published a story about 12-year-old basketball phenom Jaime Nared on nytimes.com to preview their Play Magazine product. Site [...]

Google’s YouTube has teamed up with the Pulitzer Center to produce Project:Report - a project to inspire citizen journalists to create their own video news series and bolster YouTube’s journalism section.

YouTube is offering prizes of Sony VAIO schwag and a cash grand prize of $10,000 for the best submissions.
Sounds great, right? Maybe not.
Such a paltry [...]

Google announced that the search giant will partner will newspapers large and small to archive newspaper articles, photos and advertisements and make them searchable for Google News users.
Google says users will also be able to browse the content as it was printed.
Everyone’s favorite search engine has been working with the New York Times and the [...]