News Resources - A VIP Editorial
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By Robin Neidorf

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Business is driven by news. Every day, leaders review what's happening in their industry, amongst their competitors and around their marketplace to inform their decisions. Across all areas of business, news content is essential.

With so much importance laid on the category, VIP regularly covers news publishers, content and aggregators. This month, Anne Jordan provides her opinion on Eureka.cc, a news product from Canada-based CEDROM-SNi. Anne was impressed with the features and functions of the product, as well as the coverage. If you're looking for additional options to feed your organisations' appetite for news content, take a closer look at this one.

For many organisations, aggregators are a central element of their content portfolios, particularly for news content. VIP's SourceWire column helps you stay informed on which sources are moving into and out of aggregators and what factors influence their movement. This month's instalment highlights changes in the major vendors and provides a comprehensive look at changes in relevant sources in Nexis.com

Additional news-related products are coming up in the VIP editorial calendar - watch for reviews of NewsEdge and Meltwater, as well as our annual comparison of Dow Jones Factiva and Nexis.com from LexisNexis.

Alongside that comparison, which will be published in November, we'll be producing the results of the third annual FreePint Research: News Content Needs and Preferences. Special thanks to research sponsors Acquire Media and Moreover for their support - they are committed to helping everyone in the industry gain a better understanding of emerging needs.

VIP readers are particularly invited to participate in the survey to gather information about what matters to you and your users when it comes to news content. Your responses are completely anonymous; complete the survey now at http://digbig.com/5bcffc.

FreePint is also getting ready for this year's data-gathering on copyright policies and practices. Last year's participants will receive an invitation to participate, but if you didn't participate last year, register your interest by completing the form at http://web.freepint.com/go/family/research.

Financial and deal-related information is also an evergreen topic at VIP. In the second review this month, Heidi Longaberger covers TheMarkets, a unique, comprehensive resource for broker research. Touted as time-saving and capable of effective integration into workflow, TheMarkets gets positive marks from the reviewer.

In Scope and Tap the Wire touch on many of the topics you turn to VIP for every month: the impact of social media on information behaviour and practice; copyright risks and management opportunities; and changing pricing models.

Every month, we at VIP focus on bringing you practical information to support your decision-making on the information products and services. How are we doing? Share your requests for products to cover and stories to feature by emailing me at robin.neidorf@freepint.com, or use our online suggestion box at http://www.vivavip.com/suggestionbox.

Robin Neidorf is the General Manager of FreePint and serves as lead researcher for FreePint Research projects, including the now-running survey on News Content: Needs and Preferences. Complete the anonymous survey now at http://digbig.com/5bcffc

This editorial appears in VIP Magazine No. 81, July 2010. Purchase online >>

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