A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that, for online content, consumers will pay 62 percent of what they pay for news in print.  Americans willing to pay the most (68 percent) and Dutch the least (38 percent).

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Senior Consultant Shannon Kinney revives blog after a hiatus and discusses new Twitter tools among other things!

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When Jim Buckmaster lashed out at the attorneys general that Craigslist was not the worst offender in the publication of erotic ads, he wasn’t kidding. Sales of erotic ads have soared – at local alternative weekly newspapers.

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Caroline Little, CEO of North America for Guardian News & Media, is taking on day-to-day responsibility for ContentNext Media, which publishes PaidContent.org and several other sites. Before joining Guardian News & Media, Little was CEO of WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive.

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Chris Jennewein has landed in a new position almost instantaneously; he joined San Diego News Network yesterday as its new president.

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Let’s recognize what newspapers are going through—not a death march, but a renaissance that can be exciting and historic.

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Interactive advertising can allow much more testing and data to determine its effectiveness than traditional analog advertising, the NYT reports.

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It took execs a while, but Village Voice Media issued a press release today taking issue with Craigslist for pulling the alternative publisher into the fray over adult-oriented classified ads.

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There’s an article in the Atlantic today with the catchiest headline ever: “Shhhh. Newspaper Publishers Are Quietly Holding a Very, Very Important Conclave Today. Will You Soon Be Paying for Online Content?”

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The New Haven Advocate and its sister alternative news weeklies outsourced this week’s content to India—just to see what happened. The results are on the news stands and online.

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Seven attorneys general rattle another saber at Craigslist, and say they’re going after other sites where prostitutes advertise, too. Enough already!

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TusconCitizen.com, the online only version of the former print paper, will be fashioning itself after the Huffington Post.

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At least temporarily, Craigslist has won a stay of any action by South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster in the “erotic / adult services” issue. 

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The use of online classifieds has more than doubled in the U.S. in the last four years, according to a study out today by Pew Internet & American Life Studies. 

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The Newspaper Association of America is running a full-page ad saying the newspaper industry is not dying, just transforming itself. And this time we think the ad is on the mark.

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Google will not be buying a newspaper, though the search engine giant has considered it. 

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Craigslist on Wednesday filed federal suit against South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, seeking to block a threatened criminal probe over adult-oriented ads served up on South Carolina Craigslist sites.

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Newspapers need to be like cell carriers and come up with a bundled information plan for information across all of its channels.

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In a memo leaked last week, MediaNews Group head Dean Singleton outlined the results from a late April executive “Interactive Strategic Summit” held by the company. The conclusions mark some bold departures from typical newspaper dogma.

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The debate over whether e-readers are right or wrong for media companies misses the point

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