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By James Temple for SF Gate.com
Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are redefining the online news experience, but in diverging ways that underscore the evolving identities of the search giants.
Last week, Yahoo unveiled the Upshot, a blog created by the Sunnyvale portal’s growing staff of editors and reporters, who will use search and other user data to help determine what they’ll cover and how. Read More
By Jason Fry for Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center
Newspapers have spent the last several years getting used to a radical idea: that they now compete (and unwittingly collaborate) with hordes of individual bloggers dedicated to a single sport or team.
Now, they face an interesting new challenge: New competitors are coming to town, and they operate at a much larger scale than all those bloggers.
First came ESPN Local. In April 2009, ESPN rolled out the first of its local sites, ESPN Chicago. Since then, ESPN Local outposts Read More
By Joseph Tartakoff for PaidContent.Org
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is asking select publications to suggest stories which are then promoted as “editors’ picks” on the front page of Google News. The move, which Google describes as a “test,” is similar in some ways to the “curators of the month” program on YouTube, which features video playlists made by either individuals or publications.
But it also could point to a bigger shift at Google News. After all, the site established itself as an automatic aggregator Read More
