McClatchy Newspapers has thrown in with Google’s Fast Flip news page, along with about 90 other titles, in an arrangement that is to include revenue sharing, according to an Agence France-Presse report.
Fast Flip, a product of Google labs described by the Web site as “blindingly fast overviews of headline pages of top newspapers,” debuted in September. McClatchy’s Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald and Kansas City Star are among its sources that include newspapers, magazines, Web sites, newswires, and television and radio broadcasters.
Agence France-Presse, the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek, and online news sites TechCrunch, Salon and Slate are among the original participants in Fast Flip. Tribune Co. newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, along with Popular Science, Reuters, Public Radio International and US News and World Report are, with McClatchy’s papers, among the newly announced partners.
“The Mountain View, California-based Google has had a strained relationship with U.S. newspaper owners and its news aggregator Web site Google News has drawn fire from some for linking to articles without sharing advertising revenue,” AFP says.
“Unlike Google News, Google shares advertising revenue from Fast Flip with its media partners.”
Earlier this month, Google introduced Living Stories, a Google Labs product that bundles newspaper articles about specific topics on a single page. Google said it plans to offer the Living Stories software to newspapers free of charge.
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