Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Newsfeed Update: 10.27.10

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Team Meg Whitman Charging Media a Whopping $2,000 for One Day of Travel? (SF Gate)
California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is charging the media a whopping $1,350 for one day of travel alongside her campaign, and an astronomical $2,050 for another -- hotels not included. And so far, there are no details of what itinerary is planned, with a week to go. Whitman campaign spokeswoman Sarah Pompei, in an email to reporters, gave those figures out with the observation, "We have worked to keep the cost for travel during the day as low as possible."

Newspapers Now Provide Only 20 Percent of AP Revenue (Poynter)
Revenues from newspapers have fallen by about one-third at the Associated Press since 2008, from $220 million a year to about $140 million in 2010, and they now make up just over 20 percent of the organization's total revenue. CEO and president Tom Curley revealed the decline when asked last week about the cooperative's business relationship with its member-owners.

LimeWire Shutters File-Sharing Services After RIAA Win (Wired)
LimeWire on Tuesday finally shuttered its file-sharing services months after a federal judge sided with the Recording Industry Association of America and found the New York company liable for a "substantial amount of copyright infringement" that the music industry claims is $1 billion. The four-year-old case, brought by the RIAA, alleged that as much as 93 percent of LimeWire's file-sharing traffic was unauthorized copyright material.

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