Category Archives: Newspapers

Google News Vindicates Conspiracy Theorists: To (Re)Publish and Host News!

Earlier this year, when Sam Zell bought the Tribune for around $8 billion dollars, he brought attention to Google News at the time, alluding to how it was ripping of traditional news media — and wondering out loud whether or not new “deals” were going to come about given this peculiar inequity, particularly if Google [...]

Newspapers vs. Google Round XII: “Please — Just Buy Us”

If it sounds as sad as I think it does, I worry that the ongoing debate (if it can be called a debate) about the evolution of newspapers in the face of Google has taken a turn for the pathetic. Jon Carrol, of the San Francisco Chronicle, a paper which has had to organize [...]