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Classified Advertising - Online vs. In Print
The downhill slide of daily journalism began decades ago, when television introduced nightly news programs on both a national and local level. That decline, however, has been radically accelerated by the advent of online classified advertising. Craigslist has probably been the most important development for local classified advertising. This simple, unadorned website provides free listings for most of its classifieds, selling only placements for job opportunities.

Citizen Journalists Get Paid for Submitting Photos and Videos of News in Their Local Areas
City Journalist Directory (www.CityJournalistDirectory.com) is a news directory service just launched to serve as a bridge between citizen journalists around the world and the news media. Members can submit photos and videos of news in their local area, and be paid if that content is picked up by news media outlets.

Notice Technologies Joins the Austin Technology Incubator
Notice Technologies, developers of online and social advertising products for local businesses that are marketed through local media companies such as newspapers, television stations, hyperlocal news sites, and radio, today announced its membership with the Austin Technology Incubator, a program of the IC2 Institute and the University of Texas at Austin.

PimpMyNews.com Tops 500,000 Audio News Stories, Enhances Twitter Features
Expanded Selection & Social Media Features Let Users Hear and Share Stories from the Web's Top 1,000+ Blogs, Online and On The Go. Web 2.0 startup PimpMyNews.com today announced that users now have access to audio versions of more than half a million stories from the web's top news and blog sites. The company also announced enhancements to its interface to Twitter. PimpMyNews is a new media service that allows users to get current anywhere by listening to the text news and blogs they care about on computers, iPhones, iPods, Zunes and other MP3 players and mobile devices.

Dewey Media Partners Launches New Video Production Company in The Boston and New York Media Production Markets
Veteran news and advertising producer Paul Dewey launches Dewey Media Partners with Emmy Award winning news and documentary film producers Charlie Stuart and David Saltman. Dewey Media Partners will offer full service video production services to the business, education, public relations and non-profit sectors. The Dewey Media team will apply their finely tuned skills in journalism, video production and advertising to offer fresh, creative, strategically designed media solutions to digital marketing challenges in the corporate production arena.

Travel, Golf & Entertainment News Available To Writers Through Online Press Room
Myrtle Beach-Based LHWH'S Virtual News Room Is Updated Daily To Provide Media With Most Current Information

Kaesu, Inc. Launches CoolerAds.com Online Classified and Display Ad Platform for the Newspaper Industry
Kaesu's patent pending display ad archiving technology platform and www.CoolerAds.com local search site provides solutions to newspapers including online classifieds, display ads, news, events and a full suite of advertising tools for small businesses to manage products, coupons and much more.