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Martin Nisenholtz, senior VP for digital operations at the New York Times, has been at the helm of some drastic changes at the Grey Lady.  Nisenoltz compares the Times’ Internet advancements to a battleship: slow-moving but a force to be reckoned with.  John Heilemann of Business 2.0 gets up close and personal in an interview with the man behind TimesSelect and the purchase of About.com.

Netzeitung, Germany’s revolutionary “paperless newspaper,” has taken yet another step toward the future.  Its ‘Readers-Edition.de’ is a unique example of citizen journalism: an online publication written entirely by non-professional journalists.

Columbia University’s Eli Noam stirred up some curiosity in the media industry in 2005 prophesizing that newspapers will evolve into “news integrators.” That curiosity was sated at the 13th World Editors forum where Noam made the keynote speech.

In keeping with the theme of the “free generation”, the bearded academic reflected on Rupert Murdoch’s now famous speech at the American Society of Newspaper Editors in April 2005, saying that “Young people are not abandoning print. They are abandoning news.” In this respect, newspapers must undergo a “structural transformation” if they are to thrive in the digital age. 

Google announced this week that it will launch Google Finance, a financial news service that will compete with other pure Internet players like Yahoo and MSN which already have their own financial sites. Included in the sites launch are deals with a few financial content providers including Reuters and Morningstar.

For newspapers, two lessons can be learned.

Today is a very important day for the future of sport news. Because FIFA has accepted to remove all restrictions about  online coverage - but not for mobile phones - of the Football World Cup (to be held in Germany in June 2006), there is now a major hope that the same scenario will happen for the 2008 Olympic games and that national sport leagues will limit their demands for restrictions.

What are the main lessons of this victory for press freedom against pure commercial interests:

1) all press organisations were united behind the World Association of Newspapers; from news agencies (AFP, Reuters...) to international organisations (ENPA in Europe), to national organisations such as ASNE, the American organisation of editors. When football is a major sport - as in Brazil or Germany -, news organisations also rallied and discussed the legal basis of so many restrictions.

"If the newspaper companies fail to gain those Web eyeballs, how much will pure-play Internet companies have to pay to produce the depth and breadth of content that the newspaper companies have been churning out? Who will foot the bill for news? Google? Yahoo? Consumers? Here’s hoping someone does." This quote from a February 28 AdAge about the worries of paid-for online content may have rung true at the time of publication. But two days on, worries about the ability of pure Internet companies to produce original content emerged.

The Polish regional daily NTO, published in the South Western Opole region, launches its new format today. NTO will retain its tabloid format, but the content of the newspaper will change. The objective of this change is to interact better with readers, attract a younger readership and improve coverage of local issues.

The Financial Times interviewed the Dutchmen Derk Sauer, one of the most important publishers in Russia, and asked him about the situation of press freedom in Russia. Derk Sauer is founder and chief executive of the Russian publisher Independent Media, that was bought for $ 172 million by the Finnish media group SanomaWSOY earlier this year. Sauer, the first foreigner to "crack Russia's media market", publishes about 30 titles, including the English-language daily Moscow Times, Russia's Cosmopolitan, Men's Health and Playboy. Together with the Financial Times he publishes the financial daily Vedemosti. The Russian Cosmopolitan, successful through its original Russian content instead of pure translation, with one million copies sold every month is Europe's biggest magazine. It represents "at least 60 per cent" of the company's revenue.

The Financial Times interviewed the Dutchmen Derk Sauer, one of the most important publishers in Russia, and asked him about the situation of press freedom in Russia. Derk Sauer is founder and chief executive of the Russian publisher Independent Media, that was bought for $ 172 million by the Finnish media group SanomaWSOY earlier this year. Sauer, the first foreigner to "crack Russia's media market", publishes about 30 titles, including the English-language daily Moscow Times, Russia's Cosmopolitan, Men's Health and Playboy. Together with the Financial Times he publishes the financial daily Vedemosti. The Russian Cosmopolitan, successful through its original Russian content instead of pure translation, with one million copies sold every month is Europe's biggest magazine. It represents "at least 60 per cent" of the company's revenue.

The Financial Times interviewed the Dutchmen Derk Sauer, one of the most important publishers in Russia, and asked him about the situation of press freedom in Russia. Derk Sauer is founder and chief executive of the Russian publisher Independent Media, that was bought for $ 172 million by the Finnish media group SanomaWSOY earlier this year. Sauer, the first foreigner to "crack Russia's media market", publishes about 30 titles, including the English-language daily Moscow Times, Russia's Cosmopolitan, Men's Health and Playboy. Together with the Financial Times he publishes the financial daily Vedemosti. The Russian Cosmopolitan, successful through its original Russian content instead of pure translation, with one million copies sold every month is Europe's biggest magazine. It represents "at least 60 per cent" of the company's revenue.

Yahoo is moving deeper into original content. About two weeks ago, Yahoo hired veteran war reporter Kevin Sites to report on wars around the world (see former posting and the website that started reporting today). Today, PaidContent reports about two other projects that show Yahoo moving even further into original content.

The first news is that Yahoo has hired nine popular authors to write financial columns on Yahoo Finance and has plans to hire 30 in total. Scott Moore, vice president of content operations for the Yahoo Media Group, said in the Wall Street Journal, "It's about a deeper engagement with our core audience, and about attracting key demographics that we know are attractive to our advertisers." He added that one of the goals is to attract more women in their 30s and 40s who are interested in personal finance. Columnists are planned to write one to two articles per month and will be considered freelancers. The Wall Street Journal also states that "for the venture, Yahoo tapped authors of business books, rather than plucking business columnists from newspapers and wire services, which might have caused friction with some of its news partners."