NYT: Newspapers to Use Links to Rivals on Web Sites

[DeepModem Mom]

Newspapers to Use Links to Rivals on Web Sites
By BOB TEDESCHI
Published: July 31, 2006

Want the latest news on Floyd Landis’s positive drug test from The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times or USA Today?

Soon, it will all be on Washingtonpost.com.

The Washington Post, The New York Sun and The Daily Oklahoman, in Oklahoma City, have contracted with an online news aggregator, Inform.com, to scan hundreds of news and blog sites and deliver content related to articles appearing on their Web sites, regardless of who published those articles. Links to those articles will appear in a box beside the site’s original article or within the text of the story.

Newspaper Web sites, which commonly post articles from sister publications, wire services and even blogs, have typically stopped short of providing generous doses of news from competitors. The move made by these papers is not a result of cooperation across the industry as it is a counterattack by publishers against Google and Yahoo, which have stolen readers and advertisers from newspapers in recent years, both with their search engines and their own news aggregation services.

“This lets us be a search engine,” said Kelly Dyer Fry, director of multimedia for Opubco Communications Group, which publishes the Oklahoman and its Web site, NewsOK.com. “We look at it like we just hired 30,000 journalists, because now we can give you our story and what the rest of the world is saying about it.”...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/31/technology/31ecom.html

[tuvor]

1. I'll still be using Google News.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. yes, thank you

because you know certain papers are going to link only to certain sites.

I want everything. :)

[Liberty Belle]

3. I hope they'll respect copyrights of the authors.

Last time the Times decided to lift freelancers copyrighted works and post them in online databases, it took a Supreme Court ruling for the grey lady to see the error of her ways.

[NJCher]

4. an FYI

A friend of mine started that suit. in conjunction with others. I remember the night she was searching for some of her old articles and found them at the NY Times. She was incensed and wrote me an e-mail showing me links to the articles. I wish I'd saved that e-mail, because it was the origins of this lawsuit.

FWIW, I also received an e-mail from her the day the suit was decided.




Cher