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Mayor Eddie A. Perez and some other Hartford leaders have raised a concern about offensive comments by online readers at www.courant.com . We have listened to their concern and that has led us to focus even ...

The news business has changed dramatically in the last 50 years, since the days of pioneer TV news broadcaster Edward Murrow , who delivered his segments with cigarette in hand and opened and closed his ...

Which looks to me a slightly odd list. Topix has investment from Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune , three of the five also behind Classified Ventures and three of the four behind CareerBuilder .

In our ongoing effort to make Topix better and easier to use, we're introducing a few updates to the site.

Overall, we've compressed and simplified the hat (the top part of every page that includes search, navigation, logo, etc). We also made a concentrated effort to improve the navigation, which is no small task considering we've got over 450,000 topics...

I had lunch with Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix, yesterday. Among the many topics we discussed was the future of the newspaper industry.

Topix , the local news community that allows readers to submit and edit stories, has secured deals with six content providers as it moves to establish itself as a one-stop-shop for local information.

What's the biggest challenge for new News sites? Re-distribution, says Dan Farber. Watch the video.

From the day we launched findingDulcinea, we have wanted to involve our audience in a conversation with us. Users want to have a dialogue, and they want to be heard.

If there's anyone who has an interesting perspective on the new news model, it's Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix. According to Chris, 85% of Topix's content is commentary. Topix generates about 115,000 comments per day, which equates to about 20 pageviews per comment, according to Chris.

How local does local have to be? That's something the Washington Post is probably asking itself as it tries to breathe new life into its experimental local online service The Post's idea was a site that could ...

Reality check: half of the social media start-ups at Tuesday's Under the Radar Conference won't exist next year.

Topix is an interesting hyper-local media company. The company uses a blend of algorithms and human editors to aggregate and classify news stories into different topics, with the majority of stories being classified into topics about different geographies.

With thousands of local sections for 32,500 U.S. zip codes, this site includes stories, blogs, and links - corralled from more than 50,000 news sources.

Last year, Blekko raised $2 million from Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers. They joined in this round, along with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, SoftTech VC and Western Technology Investment.

Mochila isn't announcing a new partner , but the new player has kicked in a lot more functionality.

Chris Tolles is CEO of Topix, an online local news aggregator. Tolles talks about the shortcomings that most news sources carry and gives fresh perspective on his target user base.

"Tolles operates on the sound assumption that the media outlets with the most engaged audiences will thrive. via The Future of Music, Media & Entertai...

If my hunch is right, Chris Tolles has a better shot at representing the future of media than does Chris Matthews and his ilk.

Matt Booth and I had the chance to meet with Topix at its Palo Alto headquarters last week to unearth some of its user data, as well as some heretofore unannounced content partnerships.

In light of BostonNow's closure this week , I've been mulling over the future of free metro papers in the U.S. The Chicago Tribune , The Washington Post and The San Diego Union-Tribune are among newspaper ... via The Local Onliner