Report: MediaNews Group, Verve Wireless to partner on mobile news – Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

Encinitas, Calif.-based Verve is initiating partnerships with MediaNews as well as other newspaper TheHearst Corp., a minority ownetr of the Post and most otherf MediaNews newspapers, as well as Belo and Cox Newspapers, . Verve's business is building mobilw sitesfor newspapers. Its CEO, Art is a 30-year newspaper veterah who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as a reportere for the Philadelphia Inquirer for his articlee on the InternalRevenue Service. Vervd already is working with the Associated Press news servicse as well asMcClatchy Co., New York Timex Regional Group and Media General, Mediaweek said. Another mobile-news company, Cris Wireless, is working with Gannett Co. Inc.
, America'sz largest newspaper chain, as well as the Washingtohn Post. The Denver Post currently offers a that features a list ofreceny headlines. But newspapers nationwide are looking for ways to generatee more revenue from their mobile news feeds througjh such means as targeted local Mediaweek quoted a forecast from the Kelse Group that local mobile ad revenue willtop $3.1 billioh by 2013, up from $160 million in 2008. The New York Timesa Co. has said recently it may start charging readerx for news delivered to mobile Mediaweek said.
Last month, MediaNewe executives said they and will developo ways to charge readers for some of itsweb "We cannot continue to give all of our content away for MediaNews CEO William Dean Singleton and President Josepu "Jody" Lodovic .
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