Associated Press (AP) has now announced exactly how it is going about protecting its news content from ‘unauthorised’ use. This has been part of an ongoing initiative, but we now how this protective mechanism will be deployed.
It has something to do with a new microformat, about which I had written about some days ago (that [...]

The verdict(s) is out on Yahoo’s redesigned home page; I wonder what  media sites could learn from the reactions that it has evoked.
That’s because some media sites have been using the model that Yahoo has followed for quite a while.  That home page model is based on the concept  that could  serve as the be-all  [...]

Google seems to be firmly underlining its view that there is no need for a protocol other than the widely-used Robots Exclusion Protocol to enable news publishers to exclude their content from the purview of search engines,  should they choose to do so.
International news publishers are pushing for the acceptance of the Automated Content Access [...]

You might have heard: the Associated Press and the Media Standards Trust have launched a new  news microformat proposal.
Microformats are interesting because they are a relatively easy way of describing content that is intelligible to both humans and machines.  Initiatives like these should make it easier to manage the huge torrent of news and information [...]

An interesting and exciting trend: news-industry specific open source code is being made available in the public domain; but the question is how many organisations are primed to make use of it. Read this announcement on the EveryBlock project from Adrain Holovaty, and also from the BBC. (And this is not the first time that [...]