They are French, the first based in Washington, the second in New York, but both correspondents for Libération. They opened this week their own weblogs entirely dedicated to the US presidential campaign. With a French touch and also, their so particular Libération tone. To the French daily newspaper, "it's a first in the online history of the French press". Maybe, or maybe not. But for sure, it's only for French speaking readers.
Go to the Pascal Riché weblog, "La course à la Maison Blanche".
Go to the Fabrice Rousselot weblog, "Campagne toute !".
To open the "Alliances and Partnerships" section, we have asked Carles Gardeta, Director for Organizational Culture Projects at Cases I Associats (Spain) to feature his two-year work within the Milenio Group in Mexico. Globally, three regional newspapers were involved in a fascinating editorial and management process including: newsroom organization of each one of the titles; formal homogenization of the different dailies; organization of administrative areas; common commercial strategies; and the coordination between the different newsrooms to allow the sharing of the production of common pages.
"One of the best uses of the Internet so far in the presidential campaign coverage has been the various candidate selector quizzes news sites have created. These tools engage the users, help them to better understand the issues in an interactive way, and best of all, help readers figure out which candidates are right for them." Have a look at some of the best ones online...
See the Jonathan Dube's article on CyberJournalist.net website.
Bad news for information providers? Or a model to follow? Endemol, the production company behind Big Brother, has revealed plans to provide mobile video content for any new programming format launched in the UK. It seems that entertainment is easier to make mobile than information... Now, it's up to news provider to follow their lead.
Thanks to Justin Pearse, New Media Age, for his report.
Yesterday, Editors and Publishers were optimistic at the "the paid content forum" organised by the Association of Online Publishers in London. The UK's web publishers are riding high on a new wave of confidence in paid content, encouraged by significant take-up of web subscriptions and more flexible payment technologies.Thanks to Jemina Kiss from dotjournalism.uk for this refreshing report.
The New York Times launched its first Weblog today. "Times on the Trail" is a new "continuously updated report from the campaign trail reported and edited by the Washington bureau of The Times and produced by NYTimes.com."
No time to read the last survey by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press in Washington, D.C ? Thanks to Steve Alexander from the Star Tribune to make a synthesis and a very relevant report on where the younger readers get the news. In the survey, 21 percent of people aged 18 to 29 said they get most of their campaign news from the Internet, putting the Net within 10 points of newspapers, the choice of 30 percent of the people in that age group.
Carroll Doherty, editor of the Pew Research Center, United States.
"Each succeeding generation of under-30s seems less oriented toward newspapers. That's why pessimists foretell the long-term doom of newspapers... But newspapers are still a major source of news for many millions of Americans. So, newspapers have an enormous base of readers at a time when media fragmentation is considerable."
Thanks to Norbert Specker to change our minds about the newspaper business. He defines it as a "connecting people business". Now, economies of scale that for years dominated business strategies are challenged by economies of connectivity. And for the founder of Interactive Publishing Gmbh, "it is one of the great mysteries of the last 10 years that newspapers did not manage to transpose their outstanding basic networking competence in the offline world online".
"Politics has done for the Web what sport did for USA Today," said David Rapp, executive editor and senior VP for Congressional Quarterly Inc. It popularized the Web and gave it credibility."
From NAA Electronic Media Director Melinda Gipson.
USA Today recently announced plans to have an independent panel review all of the articles written by veteran reporter Jack Kelley, who has been accused of fabricating stories, various sources reported.
Kelley resigned this month after admitting that he deceived editors who were already investigating some of the stories from his 21-year career with the national daily paper, USA Today reported.
Thanks also to the Knight Center for Journalism newsletter (January 2004).
After her investigative stories led to changes in Japan's new privacy laws, Tomoko Ohji from the Mainichi Shimbun became the first woman to win one of Japan's top journalism awards -- and the first person ever to win it twice in a row.
Thanks to the Japan Media Review for the news.
It's not recent: already seven months! But the Mark Glaser's Guide still remains a real "joystick" to move into the Blogosphere. More than 30 blogs or assimilated sites are listed with a direct link to each site... Thanks to the Online Journalism Review.
Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., publisher of the Times of India and The Economic Times, announced today an agreement on a joint venture to publish The Wall Street Journal for India. The venture would publish the Journal five-days-a-week, edited for global Indian business readers and international business travelers, drawing on the newspaper's global content.
Dow Jones would own 26% of the new venture; Bennett, Coleman would own 74%. The newspaper would be edited by Suman Dubey, a leading Indian journalist and currently Dow Jones' corporate representative in India. Further terms weren't disclosed.
Sources: Dow Jones & Company.
Süddeutsche Zeitung (or SZ) will launch on March 31, 2004 the supplement "wohl fühlen" (feeling well).
This new magazine will appear quarterly and will cover wellness, health, food, sport, beauty and travel themes. This magazine is unique to the market of German national/semi-national daily newspapers and will be adapted to the changing needs of readers. With this new publication, Süddeutsche Zeitung re-inforces its offering in the lifestyle sector.
Source: Publicitas newsletter / Süddeutsche Zeitung/Germany, January 22, 2004
From Mike Doogan, the Anchorage Daily News
"Newspapers are schizophrenic. The drive to do good journalism and the drive to maximize profits often pull them in completely different directions."
Seen on Poynteronline
From March 10 to March 12, MediaMorphosis is a leadership retreat organised in California (Newport Beach) by the Media Center of The American Press Institute. The seminar is defined as "a global, cross-industry expedition into the future of media and the media business".
Well-known experts and thinkers shaping consumer media, media businesses and the media-centric life - people will be your teachers...
The Thomson Foundation will conduct several training courses this spring for Arab journalists throughout the Middle East.
The organization announced that over the next six months, it will hold more than 30 training courses for Arab journalists at the new al-Jazeera training center in Doha, Qatar.
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) launched on January 19, 2004 the « Iraqi Press Monitor ». The bulletin will feature the top 7 stories of the day, along with a political cartoon, and include details of the newspapers they appeared in. The IWPR Iraqi Press Monitor is published five days a week. Monday through to Thursday, the service will focus on key news stories, while on Friday it will review in detail the leading opinion pieces of the week.
A recent poll of 26 members of the Online Publishers Association (New York-based organisation) shows that Internet journalism becomes more lucrative.
She is young (36) and already editor. It happens in South Africa: Ferial Haffajee, 36, has been appointed the first woman editor of the Mail & Guardian weekly newspaper, according to the editor of the Mail and Guardian Online.
