Vendors shipped a record 54.5 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2009, 39% more than the 39.2 million shipped in the same quarter in 2008,
according to IDC information on PC World.
Four of the top five smartphone sellers beat their shipments records for a single quarter, according to numbers released by the
International Data Corporation (IDC). Following a 98% increase in smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2008,
Apple has regained its spot as third largest smartphone vendor, behind longtime leaders
Nokia and
Research in Motion
The Guardian has launched a new data search website, allowing readers to search government data from the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand.
After these different governments made their statistics available on individual websites, The Guardian has collected them in one place, at their new
World Government Data website. This enables users to not only search the information, but also collect similar datasets from around the world, and find the best dataset by ranking them.
The more tech-savvy users will be able to transform the data into visualisations, mash-ups and apps. The websites invites users to post such creations.
Sales of the
Amazon Kindle e-reader will double again this year, and again in 2012, after already doubling last year, if
predictions by the Consumer Electronics Association prove to be true.
E-readers have been in the spotlight lately.
Hearst Corp. unveiled
their new e-reader, the
Skiff Reader, this week. Other companies are expected to launch e-readers during the upcoming
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And
Apple is expected to launch
a tablet computer, which would also function as an e-reader, in the near future.
After all the news of job cuts at newspapers across the
U.S.,
U.K. and
Europe, this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. A new report out of the U.S. predicts that the newspaper industry will shed 25% of its jobs by 2018.
The
Employment Projections Summary is produced by the
U.S. Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and projects the total job loss or gain for each industry between 2008 and 2018. Among the ten industries likely to lose the most staff, newspapers come in at seventh place.
A recent post on Alan Mutter's Reflections of a Newsosaur blog has rasied concerns over the potentially devasting impact the current financial crisis in the newspaper industry could have on the willingness of students to choose journalism as a profession.
Mutter argues that in a time where employment opportunities are shrinking and those who do manage to secure jobs are paid a pittance, a 'substantial percentage of the next generation of professional journalists' could be wiped out in a movement he dubs 'journicide'.
Following a difficult financial year for media outlets around the world (to say the very least),
Sébastien Danet, president of French media agency
ZenithOptimedia, has given his impressions of 2009 as well as his predictions for the year ahead,
in an interview with media website tarifmedia.com.
Danet points out that international advertising revenue as a whole took a nose dive of around 10.2 % last year, with only ten countries surveyed out of one hundred around the world managing to maintain their grip on advertising revenue.
A German news agency has bought the German-language news service of the
Associated Press (AP),
Deutsche Welle reports.
News agency
Deutscher Depeschendienst (ddp) reportedly paid tens of millions of Euros for the German-language service of
AP. The agreement includes the right for ddp to use English-language news from
AP's extensive global network, which will allow the agency to provide more international coverage.
Rumours of an
Apple tablet have gathered steam this week with an
Oppenheimer analyst suggesting the tablet could be released in late March or April next year. Anticipating a boom, Apple's manufacturer is reportedly ready to produce one million units a month for an average price of $1000 each.
"Our checks into Apple's supply chain indicate that the manufacturing cogs for the tablet are creaking into action and should begin to hit a mass market stride in February,"
wrote Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner.
Marketing and advertising executives have weighed in on the viability of new London freesheet
The London Weekly,
Brand Republic reports.
And the response is far from positive. Of the four asked for comment, three said they thought the paper would "maybe" be viable, and another said it would not.
Hearst Corp. have been particularly secretive about their plans in the e-reading domain, but last Friday the public were given a little glimpse into the upcoming launch of '
Skiff', its e-reader device/service.
Previously named '
First Paper', Skiff is a service and digital store that 'specializes in the delivery of magazine and newspaper content to e-readers,'
reports Editor and Publisher.
In an unprecedented move, The Denver Post announced Monday that its sports journalists would no longer be making predictions as to the outcome of sporting events, reports Denver Westword. According to Editor Greg Moore, it is unreasonable to expect sports writers to remain fair and balanced while being forced to give predictions of final scores. This, according to Moore, is especially true if they are based in a particular region. Picking the hometown team can make it appear as if the selection is based purely on team loyalty, while picking the challenging team denotes lack of confidence in the hometown team and could cause a rift between fans and writers.
The Australian newspaper industry is proving to be somewhat of a contradition to negative press surrounding the endurity of print media, with advertising revenue picking up faster than expected, share prices rising and local analysts increasing their optimisim.
"Newspapers are in a much stronger position than perhaps some of the headlines suggest," says
Simon Davies, head of print at media agency
OMD. "Certainly the Australian market has got off very lightly compared to other markets."
Posted by Liz Webber on August 26, 2009 at 2:50 PM
What will the media landscape look like in five years? That's the question
Media Week asked a sampling of industry insiders and researchers representing a variety of media fields. Assuming media innovation continues at the same swift pace it's been going since 2004,
the average consumer's daily media interaction will look much different by 2014.
While some predictions recall high-tech fads first seen on the
Jetsons - like concerts beamed around the world in 3D - others are not so hard to fathom, with early developments already starting to appear.
The latest issue of Courrier International to hit French newsstands gathers translated newspaper articles themed on the uncertain future of the press. From Washington, in a lengthy set of extracts from the New Republic, Paul Starr makes three strong cases for why democracy will be endangered without a newspaper. He hints that American democracy may already have been slighted seeing that national, regional and local newspapers are dwindling in terms of content they can run since printing costs have caused them to scale back on the numbers of pages they print.
He opens his debate by lamenting the fact that Americans have taken [American] journalism (in the form of a printed newspaper) for granted as newspapers have been such an ''integral part of daily life in America, so central to politics and culture and business, and so powerful and profitable in their own right, that it is easy to forget what a remarkable historical invention they are.''
The launch of a
cross-party select committee's investigation into the future of newspapers in the UK today was overshadowed by the ominous prediction that half of the nation's local and regional papers will be lost within the next five years.
The predictions are based on research conducted by the media analysts,
Enders Media. Its founder,
Claire Enders, voiced her concerns in front of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee this morning:
"We are expecting that up to half of all the 1,300 titles will close in the next five years."
The latest word on the web suggests that
Google is planning to launch its own micro-blog search service. According to the unofficial
Google Operating Systems, the venture will index and rank content from micro-blogging websites, such as
Twitter. If successful, the project will reaffirm Google's dominant position in the search market, adjusting to the rapid fire pace of the micro-blogging world. Micro-blogs tend to be shorter, posted quickly or at the 'real-time' of events.
The Google micro-blogging application will be development of its existing
Google Blog Search. It will be incorporated into the search engine and work on the basis that key words recurring in recent searches will initiate a micro-blog search.
According to an investigation conducted by
Princeton economists
Sam Schulhofer-Wohl and
Miguel Garrido, print journalists can bask in the knowledge that their work is sill important, the A
merican Journalism Review maintains.
The spring report,
"Do Newspapers Matter? Evidence from the Closure of The Cincinnati Post" found that "even underdogs such as the
Post, which had a circulation of just 27,000 when it closed - can have a substantial and measurable impact on public life." The researchers qualify that the results are "statistically imprecise", but conclude that local newspapers have an important role in the civic life of a community.
Newspapers really aren't doing as badly as media commentators would
have us think,
says Gavin O'Reilly, president of the
World Association
of Newspapers and CEO of
Independent News and Media. He did not deny
that the newspaper industry has difficulties, but said that these are
shared by many other industries in a period of economic crisis.
Speaking at the WAN
Power of Print Conference in Barcelona, he
explained, "this is not to deflect the seriousness of the situation,
and it is very serious, but it remains a fact - all major media are
suffering alongside our colleagues in other major business sectors."
Writing for
Editor and Publisher,
Steve Outing has
declared that publishers need to pay more attention to their older readers and help them make the leap from print to digital news. Outing is determinedly pro-digital, writing that he has "long predicted that the day will come when print would begin to die out as consumers adopted online and mobile as their preferred method of news consumption". He believes that the closures of the
Rocky Mountain News and the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer are the beginnings of his predictions.
Given his stance on print, Outing sees it as essential to convert the older generation of news readers to the merits of digital. He writes that "gray-haired folks" are concerned over the decline in quality of their daily newspaper, and whilst they may seek other news sources it is unlikely to be the Internet or other digital media - he also points out that given the average age of a newspaper reader is mid 50s, it is a demographic that publishers should be giving special attention to.
In an article published on US news magazine site
Time.com,
Douglas A. McIntyre partner of
24/7 Wall St industry analysts, lists the next ten major American
newspapers likely to collapse, or at the very least, end its print
operations.
In a sombre analysis of the nation's struggling papers, McIntyre names
24/7 Wall St's predictions for the next ten papers likely to shut down, each one affecting a major city. Included in this list is the
San Francisco Chronicle, whose threats by parent Hearst Corporation to close the paper have been
carefully monitored by the Editors Weblog. The
Philadelphia Daily News and
Minneapolis Star Tribune were also among those featured.
Despite
his grim predictions last year that display-ad revenues
would plummet this cycle,
Gawker Media head
Nick Denton reports increases in the
company's ad revenues and blog traffic for February 2009. In a memo to his
staff posted on
Poynter Online by
Jim Romanesko,
Denton
reveals that the sites' traffic has improved by 34% over last February, ad
revenues are up a fifth over last year so far, and reader comments have multiplied
and improved.
Denton
calls the news a "chink of light" in a somewhat gloomy media climate and attributes the Gawker Media's success to the popularity of its new big ad units
and to the concentration of web traffic to fewer and larger sites. The company
has cut costs by selling properties
Gridskipper,
Idolator,
Wonkette and
Consumerist last year, consolidating Gawker Media brands under
Gawker.com, and
laying off staff.
It is generally agreed that 2008 was not a good year for newspapers. Media pundits have been
watching the demise of the printed press and whether with glee or dismay, often accepting it with an air of inevitability. Governments and writers have been
conjuring up ways to boost print readership and
make papers profitable. Many newspapers have suffered staff redundancies and budget cuts.
But recent figures show that it really isn't all bad. Surprising though it may seem, there is still light at the end of the tunnel for the newspaper industry.
Adrian Pratt of the
Centre Daily Times is
fighting back for newspapers. Current doomsday predictions are questioning whether the printed press can survive when the Internet apparently has all the answers. Yes, answers Pratt, who doesn't see why the issue is an either/or question.
It is not just the morbid predictions that Pratt has a problem with; neither does he agree with the implication that nobody needs newspapers anymore. If newspapers were to die, Pratt believes that we would
lose all objectivity - on the Internet, he says 'it seems that reality can be created and spun'. 'Hysterical' predictions about print's imminent demise to him signal the exact reason that we need it to stay, to present facts as facts and for the 'check and balance that news organisations strive to provide'.
The
Wall Street Journal has launched a three-part video on its website entitled "
The End of Wall Street,"
Media Bistro reports. This is the WSJ.com's first long-form video series.
The video explains "how the housing bubble inflated and burst, the rippling effects across the economy and look at what's ahead for the global economy."
Posted by Emma Heald on January 6, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Forecasts for 2009 are, unsurprisingly, relatively pessimistic for traditional media and more positive for new media developments. But not all commentators were as determined as Jeff Nolan that "if 2008 was bad for newspapers, 2009 will be devastating," and many saw hope in the possibility of changes in content and format.
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/smartphone_sales_soar_in_2009.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5666" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/smartphones09.jpg"><img alt="smartphones09.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/smartphones09-thumb-200x140-5666.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="140" width="200" /></a></form>Vendors shipped a record 54.5 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2009, 39% more than the 39.2 million shipped in the same quarter in 2008, <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/188610/smartphone_sales_score_record.html">according to <b>IDC</b> information on <i>PC World</i></a>. <br /><br />Four of the top five smartphone sellers beat their shipments records for a single quarter, according to numbers released by the <a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22196610">International Data Corporation (IDC)</a>. Following a 98% increase in smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2008, <b>Apple</b> has regained its spot as third largest smartphone vendor, behind longtime leaders <b>Nokia</b> and <b>Research in Motion</b> &title=Smartphone sales soar in 2009){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/new_government_data_search_website_launc.php&bodytext=
<form mt:asset-id="5419" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/World-government-data-sto-001.jpg"><img alt="World-government-data-sto-001.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/World-government-data-sto-001-thumb-175x105-5419.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="105" width="175" /></a></form><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/07/government-data-world"><i>The Guardian</i> has launched a new data search website</a>, allowing readers to search government data from the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand.
<br /><br />After these different governments made their statistics available on individual websites, The Guardian has collected them in one place, at their new <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world-government-data">World Government Data</a> website. This enables users to not only search the information, but also collect similar datasets from around the world, and find the best dataset by ranking them.
<br /><br />The more tech-savvy users will be able to transform the data into visualisations, mash-ups and apps. The websites invites users to post such creations.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/prediction_e-readers_on_the_up_and_up.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5231" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/kindle_dx_hands.jpg"><img alt="kindle_dx_hands.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/kindle_dx_hands-thumb-200x200-5231.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="200" width="200" /></a></form>Sales of the <b>Amazon Kindle</b> e-reader will double again this year, and again in 2012, after already doubling last year, if <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/185983/ereader_sales_will_double_again_this_year_cea_says.html">predictions by the </a><b><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/185983/ereader_sales_will_double_again_this_year_cea_says.html">Consumer Electronics Association</a> </b>prove to be true.<br /><br />E-readers have been in the spotlight lately. <b>Hearst Corp.</b> unveiled <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/new_e-reader_skiff_unveiled.php">their new e-reader</a>, the <b>Skiff Reader</b>, this week. Other companies are expected to launch e-readers during the upcoming <b>Consumer Electronics Show</b> in Las Vegas. And <b>Apple</b> is expected to launch <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/12/apple_to_launch_tablet_early_next_year_s.php">a tablet computer</a>, which would also function as an e-reader, in the near future.<br /> &title=Prediction: e-readers on the up and up){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2009/12/journicide_are_the_financial_woes_of_the.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4977" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/journalismstudents.jpg"><img alt="journalismstudents.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/journalismstudents-thumb-200x150-4977.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="150" width="200" /></a></form><a href="http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009/12/journicide-looming-lost-generation-of.html">A recent post on <b>Alan Mutter</b>'s <i><b>Reflections of a </b></i><i><b>Newsosaur</b></i> blog</a> has rasied concerns over the potentially devasting impact the current financial crisis in the newspaper industry could have on the willingness of students to choose journalism as a profession. <br /><br />Mutter argues that in a time where employment opportunities are shrinking and those who do manage to secure jobs are paid a pittance, a 'substantial percentage of the next generation of professional journalists' could be wiped out in a movement he dubs 'journicide'. <br /><br /> &title='Journicide': Will the financial woes of the news industry turn off students? ){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/12/french_agency_sees_light_at_the_end_of_t.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="4956" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/sebastien%20danet.jpg"><img alt="sebastien danet.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/sebastien%20danet-thumb-200x292-4956.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="180" width="123" /></a></form>Following a difficult financial year for media outlets around the world (to say the very least), <b>Sébastien Danet</b>, president of French media agency <b>ZenithOptimedia, </b>has given his impressions of 2009 as well as his predictions for the year ahead, <a href="http://www.tarifmedia.com/article/article.cfm?idArticle=37073">in an interview with media website tarifmedia.com. <br /></a><br />Danet points out that international advertising revenue as a whole took a nose dive of around 10.2 % last year, with only ten countries surveyed out of one hundred around the world managing to maintain their grip on advertising revenue. &title=French agency sees light at the end of the tunnel for international media ){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2009/12/ap_sells_german_news_service.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="4953" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/ddp_logo.gif"><img alt="ddp_logo.gif" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/ddp_logo-thumb-200x109-4953.gif" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="109" width="200" /></a></form> A German news agency has bought the German-language news service of the <i><b>Associated Press</b></i> (AP), <a href="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4993032,00.html"><i><b>Deutsche Welle</b></i> reports</a>.
<br /><br />News agency <i><b>Deutscher Depeschendienst</b></i> (ddp) reportedly paid tens of millions of Euros for the German-language service of <i>AP</i>. The agreement includes the right for ddp to use English-language news from <i>AP</i>'s extensive global network, which will allow the agency to provide more international coverage.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/12/apple_to_launch_tablet_early_next_year_s.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4938" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/red%20apple.jpg.jpg"><img alt="red apple.jpg.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/red%20apple.jpg-thumb-180x180-4938.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="180" width="180" /></a></form><img src="file:///Users/videocomputer/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /><br />Rumours of an <b>Apple</b> tablet have gathered steam this week with an <b>Oppenheimer</b> analyst suggesting the tablet could be released in late March or April next year. Anticipating a boom, Apple's manufacturer is reportedly ready to produce one million units a month for an average price of $1000 each. <br /><br />"Our checks into Apple's supply chain indicate that the manufacturing cogs for the tablet are creaking into action and should begin to hit a mass market stride in February," <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5B83RJ20091209?sp=true">wrote Oppenheimer analyst <b>Yair Reiner</b></a>.&title=<b>Apple</b> to launch tablet early next year, speculates analyst){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/12/the_london_weekly_will_it_work.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="4893" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/london2.jpg"><img alt="london2.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/london2-thumb-200x156-4893.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="156" width="200" /></a></form> Marketing and advertising executives have weighed in on the viability of new London freesheet <i><b>The London Weekly</b></i>, <a href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/Discipline/Media/News/972464/Will-launch-free-London-newspaper-viable/"><i><b>Brand Republic</b></i></a> reports.
<br /><br />And the response is far from positive. Of the four asked for comment, three said they thought the paper would "maybe" be viable, and another said it would not.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/12/hearst_corp_update_on_e-reading_devicese.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4845" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/hearstthumb.png"><img alt="hearstthumb.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/hearstthumb-thumb-200x133-4845.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="133" width="200" /></a></form><b>Hearst Corp</b>. have been particularly secretive about their plans in the e-reading domain, but last Friday the public were given a little glimpse into the upcoming launch of '<b>Skiff</b>', its e-reader device/service. <br /><br />Previously named '<b>First Paper</b>', Skiff is a service and digital store that 'specializes in the delivery of magazine and newspaper content to e-readers,'<a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004050989"> reports <i><b>Editor and Publisher.</b></i> </a><br /><br /><br /> &title=<b>Hearst Corp.</b> update on e-reading device/service ){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/11/denver_post_sports_writers_no_longer_mak.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4239" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/11/denver_post.750-thumb-200x355-4238.jpg"><img alt="Thumbnail image for denver_post.750.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/11/denver_post.750-thumb-200x355-4238-thumb-150x266-4239.jpg" width="150" height="266" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form><div>In an unprecedented move, <b><i>T</i></b><i><b>he </b></i><b><i>Denver Post</i></b> announced Monday that its sports journalists would no longer be making predictions as to the outcome of sporting events, reports <i><b>Denver Westword</b></i>. According to Editor <b>Greg Moore</b>, it is unreasonable to expect sports writers to remain fair and balanced while being forced to give predictions of final scores. This, according to Moore, is especially true if they are based in a particular region. Picking the hometown team can make it appear as if the selection is based purely on team loyalty, while picking the challenging team denotes lack of confidence in the hometown team and could cause a rift between fans and writers. </div> &title=<i>Denver Post</i> sports writers no longer making predictions){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/10/australian_newspapers_get_off_lightly.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4172" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/auspapers.jpg"><img alt="auspapers.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/10/auspapers-thumb-252x173-4172.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="173" width="252" /></a></form>The Australian newspaper industry is proving to be somewhat of a contradition to negative press surrounding the endurity of print media, with advertising revenue picking up faster than expected, share prices rising and local analysts increasing their optimisim. <br /><br />"Newspapers are in a much stronger position than perhaps some of the headlines suggest," says <b>Simon Davies</b>, head of print at media agency <b>OMD</b>. "Certainly the Australian market has got off very lightly compared to other markets."<br /><br /><br /> &title=Australian newspapers get off lightly){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/08/media_week_imagines_the_world_in_2014.php&bodytext=<img alt="jetsons.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/jetsons.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="175" width="243" /> What will the media landscape look like in five years? That's the question <i>Media Week</i> asked a sampling of industry insiders and researchers representing a variety of media fields. Assuming media innovation continues at the same swift pace it's been going since 2004, <a href="http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/929105/2014-media-odyssey/">the average consumer's daily media interaction will look much different by 2014</a>. <br /><br />While some predictions recall high-tech fads first seen on the <b>Jetsons</b> - like concerts beamed around the world in 3D - others are not so hard to fathom, with early developments already starting to appear. &title=<b><em>Media Week</b></em> imagines the world in 2014){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/06/uk_half_of_nations_local_and_regional_pa.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="3197" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="cmslocalenders.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/cmslocalenders.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="140" width="250" /></form>The launch of a<a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/06/uk_the_future_of_uk_regional_papers_to_b.php"> cross-party select committee's investigation into the future of newspapers in the UK today </a>was overshadowed by the ominous prediction that half of the nation's local and regional papers will be lost within the next five years.<br /><br />The predictions are based on research conducted by the media analysts, <b>Enders Media</b>. Its founder, <b>Claire Enders</b>, voiced her concerns in front of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee this morning: <br /><br />"We are expecting that up to half of all the 1,300 titles will close in the next five years." <br /><br /> &title=UK: Half of nation's local and regional papers will be lost within five years, according to <b>Enders Media</b>){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2009/06/google_to_launch_new_online_micro-bloggi.php&bodytext=The latest word on the web suggests that <b>Google </b>is planning to launch its own micro-blog search service. According to the unofficial<a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/"> <b>Google Operating Systems</b></a>, the venture will index and rank content from micro-blogging websites, such as <b>Twitter.</b> If successful, the project will reaffirm Google's dominant position in the search market, adjusting to the rapid fire pace of the micro-blogging world. Micro-blogs tend to be shorter, posted quickly or at the 'real-time' of events.<br /><br /><form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="3189" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="googleimages.jpeg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/googleimages.jpeg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="63" width="150" /></form><br />The Google micro-blogging application will be development of its existing <b>Google Blog Search</b>. It will be incorporated into the search engine and work on the basis that key words recurring in recent searches will initiate a micro-blog search. <br /> <div><br /></div><div><br /></div>&title=<b>Google</b> to launch new online micro-blogging search application ){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/05/power_of_print_more_adults_read_a_newspa.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="3009" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/05/Image%201-3009.html" onclick="window.open('http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/05/Image 1-3009.html','popup','width=248,height=86,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/05/Image%201-thumb-248x86-3009.png" alt="Power of Print Conf.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="86" width="248" /></a></form>Newspapers really aren't doing as badly as media commentators would
have us think, <a href="http://www.wan-press.org/article18148.html">says <b>Gavin O'Reilly</b></a>, president of the <b>World Association
of Newspapers</b> and CEO of <b>Independent News and Media</b>. He did not deny
that the newspaper industry has difficulties, but said that these are
shared by many other industries in a period of economic crisis. <br />
<br />
Speaking at the WAN <a href="http://www.wan-press.org/powerofprint2009/home.php"><b>Power of Print Conference</b></a> in Barcelona, he
explained, "this is not to deflect the seriousness of the situation,
and it is very serious, but it remains a fact - all major media are
suffering alongside our colleagues in other major business sectors."&title=<b>Power of Print Conference</b>: more adults read a newspaper every day than people eat a Big Mac every year){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/01/us_wsj_launches_video_series_the_end_of.php&bodytext=The <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/us"><i>Wall Street Journal</i></a> has launched a three-part video on its website entitled "<a href="http://online.wsj.com/video-center/the-end-of-wall-street.html"><b>The End of Wall Street</b></a>," <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/newspapers/wsjcom_launches_the_end_of_wall_street_an_oral_history_104941.asp"><b>Media Bistro</b></a> reports. This is the WSJ.com's first long-form video series. <br /><br /><form mt:asset-id="1768" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/WSJ%20vid.jpg"><img alt="WSJ vid.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/WSJ%20vid-thumb-160x142.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="142" width="160" /></a></form>The video explains "how the housing bubble inflated and burst, the rippling effects across the economy and look at what's ahead for the global economy."<br /> <div><br /></div>&title=US: <b><i>WSJ</b></i> launches video series, <b>The End of Wall Street</b>){kind=link}