Yahoo, papers team up for online venture
From News&Tech: In an atypical combination of new media embracing old, Yahoo Inc. and eight newspaper publishers aligned forces in a bid to grow papers’ online classified ad revenues and boost the amount of local information on yahoo.com.
The publishers, representing nearly 200 papers, are MediaNews Group Inc., Hearst Corp., Belo Corp., Cox Newspapers Inc., Journal Register Co., Lee Enterprises Inc., the E.W. Scripps Co. and Media General.
The group’s properties, ranging from the San Francisco Chronicle and the (Los Angeles) Daily News to the New Haven (Conn.) Register and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, will initially incorporate Yahoo HotJobs into their Web sites before they take other steps to share content and services. [Link]