Finally. Technology provider Adicio has stitched together 500-plus recruitment sites that it powers into a publicly available database, debuting today, called CareerCast.com. That’s about a half-million jobs today from some of the best niche job boards and newspapers across the U.S. and Canada. 

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Hearst Newspapers will show off its strategy for reinventing classifieds within the next few weeks. Here are details.

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According to research from TNS, online news sites have surpassed both newspapers and television as the U.K.’s primary trusted source of information. Even Wikipedia beat the press.

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Publishers should embrace behavioral targeting, and extract the proper value. They shouldn’t shun it. 

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Canwest shares have more than doubled in a few weeks—thanks to a successful interview, or speculation of foreign investment?

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Here’s a change we expect to see a lot more often, For the second time in a few days, a newspaper has announced that it’s reducing the number of days it carries classified ads.

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If job-seekers are getting spam through recruitment sites, that poses a lot of problems --- both for the job-seekers and the recruitment sites.

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Who should win the award as “newspaper proprietor of the year” for 2008? Sadly, no one. Why not? It was a miserable year for newspapers. And some of the bets that were made a few years ago when times were good have turned out very badly.

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A new report from Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds that the internet has surpassed newspapers as the leading source of national and international news in the U.S.

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What were the top online media stories of the year? As 2008 draws to a close, here’s our take on the top five trends to which AIMGroup readers should be paying attention.

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A recent book by Jack Driscoll, former editor of the Boston Globe, offers lessons from projects around Boston that engage local citizens in reporting and news coverage. 

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California skateboarders are using realty sites like RealQuest.com and Realtor.com to find foreclosed houses with deserted pools to use for their acrobatic aerials, according to the New York Times.

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Toronto Star’s Boxing Day feature story? The best deals are online, not in print. And not at the web sites The Star’s parent company owns, but at a startup competitor. 

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A new report studied 100 U.S. newspapers to shed light on how they’re implementing Web 2.0 and social media strategies.

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GateHouse Media sues The New York Times over copyright infringement at new Boston.com hyper-local site.

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EBay is not the only retailer having difficulties this holiday season, of course, but it’s under new management and trying to evolve to a new business model. Three articles from the past few days take a look at what’s going on at EBay from various perspectives.

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Can struggling newspapers adopt alternative business models to survive? MediaShift’s Mark Glaser thinks so. He offers ten insightful tips, from “crowdfunding” to “multimedia ads.”

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If you lost your glasses, would you post an ad on Craigslist or a flyer on a street corner? What if you were Craig Newmark?

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Micro-blogging sites are going increasingly vertical. Now here comes StockTwits, a two month-old site that lets you track messages on Twitter about public company stock performance.

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Andy Fisher, retiring president of Cox Television, makes some interesting points about television stations that apply similarly to newspapers: They’re still good businesses. 

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