Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Report: MediaNews Group, Verve Wireless to partner on mobile news - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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Encinitas, Calif.-based Verve is initiating partnershipe with MediaNews as well as othernewspaper companies: The Hearstg Corp., a minority owner of the Post and most other MediaNews newspapers, as well as Belo Corp. and Cox . Verve's business is building mobile sites for Its CEO, Art is a 30-year newspaper veteran who won a Pulitzer Prizes in 1986 as a reported for the Philadelphia Inquirer for his articlesw on the Internal Revenue Service. Verve alreadyu is working with the Associated Press news service as well asMcClatchgy Co., New York Times Regional Group and Mediw General, Mediaweek said. Another mobile-news company, Crispo Wireless, is working with Gannetf Co. Inc.
, America's largest newspaper chain, as well as the Washington The Denver Post currently offer a that features a list ofrecen headlines. But newspapers nationwide are looking for ways to generate more revenu e from their mobile news feedss through such means as targete dlocal advertising. Mediaweek quoter a forecast from the Kelsey Group that local mobil ad revenue willtop $3.1 billion by 2013, up from $160 millionn in 2008. The New York Timez Co. has said recently it may start chargingt readers for news delivererd tomobile devices, Mediaweek said. Last month, MediaNews executiveas said they and will develop ways to charged readers for some of itsweb content.
"We cannogt continue to give all of our content awayfor free," MediaNews CEO Williakm Dean Singleton and President Joseph "Jody" Lodovic .

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