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Twenty-five journalists were arrested in Somaliland: eight for having protested about the closure of the TV station HornCable TV and thirtheen more who went to their aid, Roy Greenslade reported on the his blog on the Guardian via Reporters Without Borders.

Reuters announced today the launch of Reuters TV, a new YouTube channel featuring ten new commentary and analysis shows from the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, TechCrunch reported. According to the company's announcement, the YouTube channel won't mimic traditional TV, but will use an editing style that's "suited for Internet programming", the article said.

The founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales announced that the site will go dark for 24hours on Wednesday in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), The Next Web's Insider reported. The Next Web also reported that, in reply to a tweet that queried whether Twitter's Dick Costolo, Google's Eric Schmidt or Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg would follow Wikipedia's protesting footsteps, Costolo responded by saying that the decision was foolish.

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This is a big week for Flipboard. After launching in China on Monday, today the social news reader app has finally released a version for the iPhone. 

The new iPhone app does just what Flipboard on the iPad did; collect stories from social media accounts as well as other sources and present them to readers in a visually pleasing format. 

But there are significant differences. For one thing, the iPhone app works by swiping up and down, rather than the old format of turning pages from right to left. More importantly, the phone app introduces "cover stories". This new section learns from your interaction with content so that it can deliver stories that are most interesting and relevant to you.

Check out who The Guardian considers to be the 100 most powerful people in media at the moment.

If you needed yet more proof as to just how incendiary Twitter can be, let Jeff Jarvis show you, with his rebellious new hash-tag.

Are you designing your digital apps with the right mindset? Khoi Vinh tells us exactly what is wrong with how Condé Nast design their digital media products. 

Google launches a new publication, aimed at informing digital advertisers, the first edition of which will be released out as a hardback book with interactive tactile elements. 

After having portions of his book, The Insider, quoted during the Parliamentary Inquiry into phone hacking, the scandal is now threatening to envelop Piers Morgan. Now a presenter on CNN, legal action may be looming for the self-made media man.

Sources;: The Guardian , The BetaBeat.com  Buzzmachine.com , The New York Times  ,  CNN

On Monday 6th at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco Steve Jobs himself presented the company's latest innovations.
Amongst these are iOS 5, the new Apple mobile operating system which brings over 200 new features, iCloud, the new online storage and syncing service for music, photos, files and software, and Newsstand, a virtual bookshelf which organizes magazine and newspapers' app subscription in just one folder.

Probably the most interesting feature from a publisher's point of view is Newsstand. Through this service, iOS 5 organizes users' magazine and newspaper app subscriptions in just one location that lets readers access their favourite publications quickly and easily.

The App Store will have a new place just for newspaper and magazine subscriptions, to which users can go directly from Newsstand. In the same way, new purchases will go directly to the newsstand folder. Then, as new issues become available, Newsstand automatically updates them in the background -- complete with the latest covers.

As the news industry keeps evolving at what seems like an accelerating pace, there is a clear market for a source that collects and categorises developments at news organisations. Nieman Journalism Lab launched Encyclo on March 18th to fill that need, noting that "there's great value in a resource that steps back a bit from the daily updates and focuses on background and context."

Nieman Lab presented the site as an "attempt to figure out who the most important players and innovators are in the evolution of journalism." It launched with 184 entries, covering everything from newspapers to broadcast networks, both big and small. Encyclo also has entries on technology companies that are having a major impact on news, such as Google and Craigslist.

On May 13 Google announced - through its official Google News' blog - the launch of a new U.S English edition feature for mobiles called "News near you". The tool provides users with geo-localized news.

By accessing news.google.com through smartphones' browser and allowing the device to register their current location, users will receive news relevant to the city they are in and the surrounding areas.

This is not the first location-based news tool offered by Google. It first became available in Google News in 2008 and today it provides a local section for almost every city, state or country worldwide.
Now however, the announcement noted, it will be done a bit differently, "analysing every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located".

Just about everyone in the news industry is looking for "new patterns for the future of news".

It seems pretty certain that social networks will play an even more important role in defining the new ways users will consume the news, as will personalization.

Betting on this comes the new platform launched by the Washington Post: Trove, a free news aggregation website which allows users to get a personalized information.

The Washington Post anticipated its launch last February.
 
As TechCrunch reported, it combines algorithms and the editorial team's expertise to aggregate and offer news from more than 10,000 sources. Trove takes advantage of Facebook Connect - the article said - to pull in user's interests as outlined by his or her Facebook profile to help jump-start the personalization part of the equation.

Ken Doctor on Nieman analyses the 'newsonomics' of Sunday paper/tablet subscriptions, in light of The New York Times' paid online content launch. "You don't see the Sunday newspaper/tablet subscription called out in any of the Times' announcements, or on its pricing page, and there's a fair amount of subterranean speculation as to the Times' intent -- but more on that below", he wrote. "I talked to a number of people in the days after the Times' announcement who had quickly done the math in their heads, and figured out that the Sunday print subscription, giving them all-access to Times' digital delivery, was the best deal that they could cobble together".
 
Meanwhile, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., the New York Times Co's chairman and publisher, in an interview with CEO Janet Robinson at the Paley Center, said that the rise of tablets and apps has helped pave the way for The New York Times and potentially many other newspapers to charge for content, paidcontent reported.

The Guardian's Roy Greenslade reported that the UK advertising market boasts 6.9% increase. According to an Advertising Association/Warc expenditure report, released today, that rise meant that 2010 was strongest year for adspend growth since the dot.com boom of 2000. It also represented a significant bounce-back from recession, he wrote.

NewsGrange reported that Google has just launched its own online publication based in the UK. Think Quarterly, which calls itself a "a breathing space in a busy world" is, as the name implies, a quarterly online magazine, the article says. It will have a very small distribution initially as it is a "short book about data", sent to a small number of Google's UK partners and advertisers.

But paidcontent noted that Google is not about to become a magazine publisher. "Think Quarterly, with an emphasis on science-, business- and technology-related features, is not a consumer product, it's a branding exercise, just a typical corporate contract publishing title, designed to ally Google and its people with smart technology thinking in the minds of its audience", the article said.

Bloomberg digital head Kevin Krim told the Structure Big Data conference in New York City about how the company personalises news for its 20 million users, Gigaom reported.

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Microsoft will release the Windows Phone 7 soon, according to an article by MocoNews.net, which will be available to the public starting in November.  The phone was first unveiled eight months ago, and consumers have been waiting intently for its release.  The main "unveiling" of the phones will take place in New York, but the event will be telecast to a number of other locations.  "It will be essential for the hardware and software to look and feel as seamless as the iPhone," MocoNews adds.

Microsoft has gone to great lengths to "create a product that works more harmoniously, representing a huge shift in the way it does business," according to the article.  "Previously, it licensed software to OEMs, who were free to add their own creative touch to the look and feel of the OS."

The Evening Standard is to launch an iPad app this week, reported MediaWeek. The app, which will feature a range of editorial content including news, sport, business and entertainment, is the first of two: the second will be launched at a later date and will focus on the paper's Friday ES magazine.

The first app will launch this week and will be updated 24 hours a day, offering both content from the print paper and unique features and news, MediaWeek said. It will allow users to share and post on Facebook and Twitter. British Airways is sponsoring the app, and will be the sole advertiser for the first two months.

iPads seem to be flying off the shelves in the U.S. Mashable reports that Apple's tablet is selling at an impressive rate of over 200,000 per week in the U.S., outselling Macs at a nearly 2-to-1 ratio, according to numbers collected by Mike Abramsky from RBC Capital Markets.

iPads, which are selling faster than the iPhone when it first launched, are currently only behind iPhone 3GS in terms of sales.

Mashable reports that in a note to investors, Abramsky noted that inventories "show widespread iPad stockouts at Apple retail stores and Best Buy." These statistics show that the tech giant could sell around eight million iPads this year, and this number is only set to grow when it officially launches in Europe, Asia, and Australia on May 28.

The Indian English language daily, Hindustan Times, has just launched an iPhone news app, and claims to be the first Indian newspaper to do so, reported afaqs!

While the number of iPhone users in India does not represent a substantial number, the application "will primarily target iPhone users or non-resident Indians in the West."

The app will be offered for free and without advertisements, but HT does hope it will be able to embed ads on the news app, monetizing the application in the future.

A couple of weeks ago, the German tech company, Neofonie, launched its version of the tablet: the WePad. This tablet, a device that looks and sounds just like the Apple iPad, could become Apple's fiercest competitor in Europe. 

It is no secret that deals between publishers and Apple have faced obstacles in recent weeks. These disagreements have raised the question of whether newspapers and magazines will be able to reap the financial benefits of the iPad. As American publishers get on board with the iPad, German publishers seem to be flocking towards the WePad.

Last week, the WePad finalized a distribution deal with Europe's biggest publisher, Gruner + Jahr, according to TechCrunch. The company is responsible for over 250 newspapers and magazines in Europe.

Legacy and new media clash at Penn State University. [Mashable]

15 publishers showcase their plans for the iPad, though will any cost as much as the Wall Street Journal? [PaidContent, Poynter]

Like Terminator, if John Connor were also a journalist. [Knightblog]

The Society of Professional Journalists denounces "checkbook journalism." [Media Matters]

In a move condemned by press freedom groups, Police raid Belarusian newspapers and journalists to confiscate computers. [Guardian]

The date's set for the showdown between the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal: WSJ's New York section launches April 26th. [Observer]

The UK government announces the three independently funded news consortia in Scotland, Wales, and England. [Department for Culture, Meida, and Sport]

Nonprofit news source California Watch is blazing an important trail. [Newsonomics]

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

Amid all the buzz about the potential to make money from mobile news, news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has become the latest news organisation to launch an iPhone app.

The application also works on the iPod Touch and costs $1.99 from the Apple store.

"It gives access to the global news agency's multimedia content in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German, including breaking world news from wars and conflicts to politics, sport and entertainment, as well as the latest major developments in health, science and technology," AFP said in a statement.

YouTube is releasing a new open-source interface called YouTube Direct that aims to make it easier for news organisations to have access to relevant clips from citizen journalists, it was widely reported. The application, to be unveiled today, will allow media outlets to integrate a video upload tool into their sites, where they can accept and screen user footage, described TechCrunch. All content uploaded will also appear on the YouTube site.

As more and more of the public are equipped to record video on cameras or mobile phones, and it becomes easier to upload, citizen contributions are being welcomed at more and more news outlets, particularly as financial difficulties are cau. So many videos are uploaded to YouTube each minute, however, that it is hard to find news-worthy content and very difficult to ascertain its reliability.