AP Sets Up News Registry To Track And Protect Content Online

PaidContent.org has an item about AP's plan to track its content online.

Following up on its spring promise of an industry initiative to protect news content online, the Associated Press board today approved an ambitious plan to tag and track every piece of text content for the co-op and its members—and eventually photos and video. The news registry will start by tracking AP content and is expected to add AP member content in early 2010. AP will fund it through 2010; it’s then expected to be self sustaining. One feature of the registry, which is being designed to work on payment models ranging from free to pay walls, is a “beacon” that will let the AP know how the content is being used.

Public Radio is Killing Public Radio

Rafat Ali writes on paidcontent.org that the new IPhone app, which aggregates most public radio stations across the U.S., will hasten the demise of local public radio stations. I'm not sure I buy his argument, but its an interesting view of how technology that's supposed to widen an audience can also end up hurting the program provider.

PS: the view from NPR is that a number of local public radio stations are making money from successful fund-raisers. There are only a few that are on the ropes....

Close J-schools?

Richard Sine writes on Huffington Post:

"Do not fill up two years of anyone's time with bush-league "news services" (Oh boy! A clip in The Daily Supplement!) or mandatory classes in media history, communications theory or journalism philosophy. Do not charge so much money to walk through the door that the program is open only to the rich, the idle, or the financially illiterate. That's not a journalism school; that's a gold-plated welfare program for your old newsroom buddies, built on the backs of starry-eyed naïfs."

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thoughts?