More on aggregators, agencies, and newspapers
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 10 April 2007 at 15:46
Tags: Associated Press, Google, Newspapers, Tribune Company
Writing for the Baltimore Sun, Jay Hancock weighs in to this weekend’s debate in the blogosphere about Sam Zell and Google:
if Zell’s aim is to change newspapers’ business model rather than their content, he might be on to something.
The problem isn’t the journalism; soaring Web readership proves that. The problem is getting paid for it in the Internet Age.
Hancock also addresses newspapers’ new relationship with the agencies, who are suddenly in direct competitors online:
Why do newspapers pay the Associated Press to distribute their expensive, hard-won stories to radio, TV, Yahoo and other enemies of newspapers?
Newspapers run AP as a collective, but the interests of AP and its members have never been further apart.
It’s well worth a complete read, since all the same debates affect us here in Britain as well. Zell has only reignited all of this with his comments. None of these debates will be going away any time soon.
