Topix News

Renae Dreier was named the recipient of the GOPY Award - the Greater Orange Person of the Year award.

"Noise in the 'Hood - Why is hyperlocal news so terrible?" is the title/subtitle of a piece by Mark Gimein that was published this week on Slate's web site, The Big Money.

Krillion and Topix announced a deal in which the former will provide a new "e-circular" on Topix pages that correspond to local stores in specific geographies: [T]hat dynamically presents real-time deals on local, in-stock products to the thousands of people that visit the Topix local news and community forums each day.

Many people touted "hyper-local" news as the salvation of journalism and newspapers in particular; it's not.

Abilities such as this are increasingly important to local etailers and even larger ecommerce hubs.

New Reports Help Customers Better Measure Results of Online News Releases and Evaluate Return on Investment Lanham, MD December 8, 2009 -- PRWeb, the online news distribution service of Vocus today announced new analytics reports for measuring results from news releases distributed through its service.

California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, is implementing a new distribution model to reach diverse California communities in multimedia formats.

Many of the top global news and current events Web sites lost unique users in October because of difficult year-over-year comparisons.

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 2:02 pm All of you crying racism, SHUT YOUR F---ING MOUTHS.

Tonya Sparkes, a well-known member of the Ukiah High School community died Wednesday at age 45.

This week, newspapers employ a variety of strategies, from independent funding to niche topics to SEO to help them stay alive.

On Wednesday, the Ruidoso News, in cooperation with Topix of California, blackballed a "contributor" to the Readers Comments section of our Web site.

Google News, Topix and other news search services have replaced the morning newspaper for many consumers, but one titan in the media industry won't have any of it.

Pastor Susanna Griefen's installation will take place Sunday, Nov. 1, at 2 p.m. at Dummerston Congregational Church.

To the American public, Afghanistan may be America's Other War. But that's no longer the case for U.S. television networks.

KeywordSmash is a free online tool that lets you search every major online keyword research and content source as well as search a number of them simultaneously.

Federal officials say Maine will get a $360,000 share of a national appropriation to improve and promote highways designated as scenic byways.

"The Truth" Will be absent as Leading Journalists and Politicians Acknowledge FOX Bias in Reporting and Programming.

Hearst launched a news aggregation site called LMK , which pulls news and photos on 2.3 million different topics and people from the internet and puts them together on separate topic pages.

Kayden Manning of Vernon, Vt., has been selected as a prestigious McDonough Scholar at Marietta College this fall.