"...the newspaper industry needs to reexamine how to protect and monetize its valuable print and online content. Are online aggregators plagiarizing our work and profiting mightily by selling their ads around our content without giving us a cent? Or are they driving enough traffic and revenue to our websites that we justify the risk? While Google CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted recently as saying, “All information wants to be free,” it’s clear that the issue is not so simple—especially as Google continues to sell billions of dollars a year worth of advertising around original newspaper content.”
Monday, January 19, 2009
Newspaper Folks Fight Back
In the latest issue of Editor & Publisher, Donna Barrett and Randy Siegel tell it like it is:
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