http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/japanese-newspapers-print-all-the-way/ The Bivings Report (TBR) is a source of news, insight, research and analysis on the web-based communications industry. TBR content is posted, created and managed by internet strategists, media/communications analysts, web developers, designers and programmers, all of whom are employees of The Bivings Group. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:12:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/japanese-newspapers-print-all-the-way/comment-page-1/#comment-76687 Mutantfrog Travelogue » Blog Archive » Sankei’s Iza! is great, Asahi’s Japanese website is improving Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:59:16 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/japanese-newspapers-print-all-the-way/#comment-76687 [...] Though most of the major newspaper sites give out their editorials and some columns for free, many (Nikkei is probably the worst offender) still feature pitiful two-line summaries of their feature news articles (or brief reprints from wire services) and offer nothing that could be termed full news coverage. An August 2006 Bivings Report study of Japan’s online media market concluded that in general “Japanese papers are not taking aggressive Web strategies (except when it comes to cell phones).” Focusing on cell phone content may be in line with many readers’ demands, but there is a growing market for online journalism that I believe will match the US’ development of online media as a main source of news, even if many of the users will in fact be reading from cell phones. [...] [...] Though most of the major newspaper sites give out their editorials and some columns for free, many (Nikkei is probably the worst offender) still feature pitiful two-line summaries of their feature news articles (or brief reprints from wire services) and offer nothing that could be termed full news coverage. An August 2006 Bivings Report study of Japan’s online media market concluded that in general “Japanese papers are not taking aggressive Web strategies (except when it comes to cell phones).” Focusing on cell phone content may be in line with many readers’ demands, but there is a growing market for online journalism that I believe will match the US’ development of online media as a main source of news, even if many of the users will in fact be reading from cell phones. [...]

]]> http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/japanese-newspapers-print-all-the-way/comment-page-1/#comment-2792 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » How cool are they? Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:53:06 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/japanese-newspapers-print-all-the-way/#comment-2792 [...] Recently, the Bivings Report gave us a handy survey of U.S. newspapers’ use of interactivity and such online. Now they’ve extended the survey to Japan and others have done likewise elsewhere. [...] [...] Recently, the Bivings Report gave us a handy survey of U.S. newspapers’ use of interactivity and such online. Now they’ve extended the survey to Japan and others have done likewise elsewhere. [...]

]]> http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/japanese-newspapers-print-all-the-way/comment-page-1/#comment-2773 A Couple of Tidbits on Japanese Newspapers » The Bivings Report Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:29:57 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/japanese-newspapers-print-all-the-way/#comment-2773 [...] (2) Every single newspaper site we looked at in Japan when conducting our study offered some form of special service designed to serve content on cell phones.  In most cases, this takes the form of a cell phone version of the website that users have to pay and subscribe to separately.  Sixteen of the twenty one Japanese papers we looked at offers this kind of service.  Goes to show how fundamentally different Japanese newspapers and Internet habits are from ours in the U.S. [...] [...] (2) Every single newspaper site we looked at in Japan when conducting our study offered some form of special service designed to serve content on cell phones.  In most cases, this takes the form of a cell phone version of the website that users have to pay and subscribe to separately.  Sixteen of the twenty one Japanese papers we looked at offers this kind of service.  Goes to show how fundamentally different Japanese newspapers and Internet habits are from ours in the U.S. [...]

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