Looks like the layoffs hitting the news reporting business in general are hitting legal reporting as well.
Bob Norman of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times is reporting that American Lawyer Media (ALM), which owns The American Lawyer magazine and legal newspapers nationwide, announced last week in a memo from CEO William L. Pollak to staff
The way advertising is presented in online newspaper sites is killing them.
Per Robert Niles at USC’s Online Journalism Review:
News publishers like to point to television, free news online, English literacy rates and slew of other reasons to explain their readership losses. But the contempt that newspapers show for their readers by burying their
America Lawyer Media’s Law.com isn’t passing out press passes to all bloggers for ALM’s LegalTech New York (LTNY). But they’re doing the next best thing by showcasing your blog posts relating to LTNY on law.com.
How’s it work?
Referencing the O’Keefe – Ambrogi live blogging debate of last year, Brian Ritchey reports at More Partner Income that he’ll be live blogging from LegalTech in New York next week.
Though he’ll be spending a lot of time in a booth conversing with attendees and other vendors, Brian equates blogging to be one in the
American Lawyer Media – ALM – is now indexing all legal blogs so that such law blog content is included in search results at ALM’s Law.com website right along with legal news reported by ALM’s reporters.
Doing a search for Martindale-Hubbell this morning, the first four results displayed are from legal blogs not affiliated with
Next Wednesday, October 24, I’ll be appearing on a webinar panel with Carolyn Elefant and Mark Britton. It’s being hosted by ALM’s National Law Journal. Join us without leaving your chair in front of your computer.
The details: