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Video cameras for reporters as newspaper moves into the digital age
Posted by Elizabeth Redman on February 9, 2010 at 4:15 PM
Reuters accused of imposing illegal pay cuts by union
Posted by Helena Humphrey on February 8, 2010 at 11:03 AM
iPad changes the story for newspaper-subsidized e-readers
Posted by Maria Conde on February 5, 2010 at 3:55 PM
Journalism Online's payment system to be in place in a matter of weeks
Posted by Emma Heald on February 3, 2010 at 12:10 PM
News Corp announces big profits and plans for pay walls
Posted by Trafton Kenney on February 3, 2010 at 12:06 PM
Former editor takes on Birmingham Post with web launch
Posted by Maria Conde on February 2, 2010 at 5:31 PM
Gannett sees profits and circulation increase in 4Q
Posted by Maria Conde on February 2, 2010 at 2:15 PM
Twitter and Facebook to boost news organisations' ad revenue?
Posted by Helena Humphrey on February 1, 2010 at 1:59 PM
New York Times gains Bay Area subscribers
Posted by Elizabeth Redman on February 1, 2010 at 11:23 AM
NYT's paywall: of symbolic significance but unlikely to increase revenue?
Posted by Emma Heald on January 29, 2010 at 11:54 AM
US: Study shows government subsidies to media have declined
Posted by Maria Conde on January 28, 2010 at 4:49 PM
Guardian's Alan Rusbridger on why his paper will remain free online
Posted by Emma Heald on January 26, 2010 at 12:06 PM
Study: Kindle falls short for reading news
Posted by Elizabeth Redman on January 26, 2010 at 11:18 AM
Non-profit news project launches in Connecticut
Posted by Elizabeth Redman on January 25, 2010 at 4:41 PM
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/video_cameras_for_reporters_as_newspaper.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5680" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newhavenregister.jpg"><img alt="newhavenregister.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/newhavenregister-thumb-200x29-5680.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="29" width="200" /></a></form>All reporters at the <b>Journal-Register Co.</b> (JRC) will get video cameras, under an ambitious plan to bring the newspaper into the digital age, the company's 3,100 employees have been told. The company's new CEO <b>John Paton</b> has also told staff that they now work for a 'media company', not a 'newspaper company'. Appropriately enough, he announced the news in a seven-minute slideshow, emailed companywide, <a href="http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/all_roads_no_longer_lead_to_print">the <i>New Haven Independent</i> reports</a>.<br /><br />"We're not looking to make any cuts," Paton told the Independent. "We need to improve [local coverage]. We don't need to make it worse." The company, which runs 19 daily and 150 other newspapers, including the flagship <i>New Haven Register</i>, <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/02/bankruptcy_looms_for_more_us_newspapers.php">filed for bankruptcy last February</a>.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/02/jobs_to_go_at_swedish_daily.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5653" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/dagens-nyheter-12-2008-1.jpg"><img alt="dagens-nyheter-12-2008-1.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/dagens-nyheter-12-2008-1-thumb-200x220-5653.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="220" width="200" /></a></form>Swedish daily newspaper <i>Dagens Nyheter</i> has announced that it will cut between 100 and 120 jobs after sustaining multi-million euro losses, <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/24788/20100204/"><i>The Local</i> reports</a>. This amounts to almost one sixth of the newspaper's workforce.
<br /><br />The company employs 580 people, with half of these in the newsroom. Most of the cuts are expected to affect editorial staff, with more than a third of these set to go.
<br /><br />The newspaper reported losses of 97 million kronor, or around €10 million, last year. Despite this, union official <b>Hans Arbman</b> said that the cuts were unexpected.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/reuters_accused_of_imposing_illegal_pay.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="4865" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/thompson_reuters_logo3-thumb-200x107-4864.jpg"><img alt="Thumbnail image for thompson_reuters_logo3.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/thompson_reuters_logo3-thumb-200x107-4864-thumb-200x107-4865.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="107" width="200" /></a></form><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/09/new_york_times_and_newspaper_guild_coope.php"><b>The Newspaper Guild of New York</b> </a>has accused <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2009/12/job_cuts_at_thomson_reuters.php"><b>Thompson Reuters</b> </a>of imposing illegal pay cuts, <i>the New York Times</i> reports. <a href="http://http//www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2009/12/job_cuts_at_thomson_reuters.php">The news comes just two months after the agency made clear its plans to cut some 240 jobs in its legal divisions across North America.</a>
<br /><br />According to a complaint filed by the union on Friday, the news service is wrongly cutting the pay of some 420 employees by an average of 10 percent through various measures, including no longer contributing to staff retirement plans, health care, out of pocket expenses, as well as increasing the number of hours staff members must work in order to receive overtime. Automatic annual pay increases will also no longer be guaranteed. &title=<b>Reuters</b> accused of imposing illegal pay cuts by union){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/mobile_news_gains_ground_in_france.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5644" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/franceiphone.jpg"><img alt="franceiphone.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/franceiphone-thumb-200x132-5644.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="132" width="200" /></a></form>News applications for iPhone have met an undeniable success with French readers, but the task of monetising this through selling content, services and advertising still remains, <a href="http://www.lesechos.fr/info/comm/020339374970-les-francais-commencent-a-lire-leurs-journaux-sur-l-iphone.htm">according to <i>Les Echos</i></a>.
<br /><br />The director of electronic editions for <i>Libération</i>, <b>Ludovic Blecher</b>, said that the iPhone had revolutionised the consumption of news on mobile platforms. The Libération iPhone app was launched in the autumn, as was that of <i>Le Figaro</i>, and they have been downloaded 400,000 and 600,000 times respectively. "Around 30,000 people open it every day," Blecher said. Figures for <i>Le Monde</i> are even higher: it launched its app in November 2008 and has just reached 1.3 million unique downloads, attracting between 200,000 and 250,000 hits a day.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/what_will_abc_open_mean_for_newspapers.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5638" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/abc-logo1.jpg"><img alt="abc-logo1.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/abc-logo1-thumb-200x215-5638.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="215" width="200" /></a></form>Australian public broadcaster the <b>ABC</b> has launched a new digital initiative called <b>ABC Open</b> to feature user-generated content on existing ABC local websites.
<br /><br />The initiative aims to develop the digital skills of local communities to tell their own stories. The reports produced through the project will be published on the broadcaster's local websites and other sites, and may also be distributed on radio, television or mobile platforms. <br /><br />More than 50 editors and producers, based in local radio offices around the country, will be charged with helping communities design and develop media-rich local stories. <br />
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/ipad_changes_the_story_for_newspaper-sub.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5634" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/ipadalone-thumb-200x115-5510-thumb-200x115-5511.jpg"><img alt="Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for ipadalone.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/ipadalone-thumb-200x115-5510-thumb-200x115-5511-thumb-200x115-5634.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="115" width="200" /></a></form>The launch of <b>Apple</b>'s <b>iPad </b>has garnered much optimism in the newspaper industry, driving hopes that the innovative tablet computer will be able to breathe some new life into an industry battered by an advertising downturn.<br /><br />Much speculation has placed very high hopes on the capacity of the iPad and a slew of new generation e-readers to revamp the industry and bolster its business model. But, <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=131&aid=177206">as <i>Poynter Online</i>'s <b>Bill Mitchell</b> reports</a>, the iPad will probably not be the solution to all of the newspapers' woes, but this sleek electronic device <i>could</i> play a substantial role in the migration of users from a cost-heavy past to a more efficient future. <br /> <iframe frameborder="0" name="mashlogic" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; overflow: hidden; display: none; z-index: 9999; position: absolute; top: auto; right: auto; bottom: auto; left: auto;" id="mashlogic" src="about:blank"></iframe>&title=<b>iPad</b> changes the story for newspaper-subsidized e-readers){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2010/02/facebook_emerges_as_threat_to_google_new.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5632" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/facebook-logo2.jpg"><img alt="facebook-logo2.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/facebook-logo2-thumb-200x75-5632.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="75" width="200" /></a></form><b>Facebook</b> is rivaling <b>Google News</b> and <b>Google Reader</b> as a distributor of news content on the internet, according to recent data from <i>Hitwise</i>.<br /><br />Hitwise online analyst <b>Heather Hopkins</b> <a href="http://weblogs.hitwise.com/us-heather-hopkins/2010/02/facebook_largest_news_reader_1.html">reports</a> that Google Reader accounted for .01% of visits to news and information websites in late January - roughly the same figure as a year ago. Meanwhile, Google News accounted for 1.39% of upstream visits and Facebook for 3.52%.<br /> &title=<b>Facebook</b> emerges as threat to <b>Google News</b>){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/london_evening_standard_readership_rises.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="2839" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/logos/Image%2012.png"><img alt="Evening Standard.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/05/Image%2012-thumb-200x75-2839.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="75" width="200" /></a></form>The<i> London Evening Standard</i>'s readership has gone from 556,000 in April to September to 1.37 million in the last three months of 2009, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/feb/03/london-evening-standard-newspapers"><b>Stephen Brook</b> from <i>Guardian</i> reports.</a><br /><br />These positive readership figures follow the <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/10/evening_standard_starts_its_life_as_a_fr.php">newspaper going free in October</a> of last year and more than <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/01/more_freesheet_speculation_as_lebedevs_p.php">doubling its circulation to 600,000 copies in the process</a>. The London Evening Standard was bought by Russian billionaire <b>Alexander Lebeveb</b> in 2008, and his decision to drop the paper's 50p cover price was made in the hope that boosted circulation would increase advertising enough to make up for the lost revenue of having no cover price. His move towards the freesheet format prompted <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/01/more_freesheet_speculation_as_lebedevs_p.php">speculation that other London quality newspapers may drop their cover price as well.</a><br />&title=<i>London Evening Standard</i> readership rises){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/uk_council_newspaper_costs_revealed.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5607" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/salfordstar.png"><img alt="salfordstar.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/salfordstar-thumb-200x258-5607.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="258" width="200" /></a></form>There's more fuel for the debate over council-run newspapers in the UK today, with <a href="http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=454">one local newspaper revealing</a> that its council-supported rival costs taxpayers almost £28,000 a month.
<br /><br />In the town of Salford, near Manchester, the council magazine <i>Life in Salford</i> competes with newspapers the<i> Salford Star</i> and <i>Salford Advertiser</i>. The Salford Star filed a freedom of information request to determine the cost of producing the council magazine. It determined that the council spends £27,797 per month, or an average of £333,564 per year.
<br /><br />By contrast, outside advertising income for the paper totaled just over £19,000 for eight issues.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/new_section_at_la_times.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5323" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/la_times.jpg"><img alt="la_times.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/la_times-thumb-200x92-5323.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="92" width="200" /></a></form>On <b>Monday</b> <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/02/chicago_tribune_announces_format_changes.php"><i>The Chicago Tribune</i> announced changes to its content and format as it prepares to roll out a narrower-by-one-inch page size as of 8 <b>February</b>.</a> Editor <b>Gerould W. Kern</b> revealed these changes to be cost-cutting measures for the <b>Tribune Co.</b> paper, which is still crawling its way out of the bankruptcy protection it entered over a year ago.<br /><br /><i>The LA Times</i>, another Tribune Co. publication, is also implementing similar cost-cutting alterations, evident yesterday. The most notable change was not the inch the paper also shaved from its width, but rather the new section - <i>LATExtra </i>- including local and <b>California</b> stories including entertainment, business, national and foreign news, as well as the lottery results and weather page. The section runs from <b>Monday</b> to <b>Saturday</b>. &title=New section at <i>LA Times</i>){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/02/news_corp_closer_to_charging_for_online.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="3909" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/murdoch.jpg"><img alt="murdoch.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/10/murdoch-thumb-200x249-3909.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="249" width="200" /></a></form>As <b>News Corp</b> announced profits of $254 million over the three months up to December, <b>Rupert Murdoch</b> said his company is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/03/murdoch-news-corp-increases-profit">close to implementing online subscription models for all of its newspapers</a> like the <i>Times</i>, the <i>News of the World</i>, and the <i>Sun</i>. <br /><br />The company is also in "advanced negotiations" with handheld-device manufacturers about possible paywalls that would allow customers access to News Corp content "whenever and wherever they want it," said Murdoch.<br /><br />According to Murdoch, "ingenious and fabulous devices" like the <b>iPad</b> and the <b>Kindle</b> "would be unloved and unsold" without the creative content supplied by newspapers. "Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things digital. We're on the cusp of a digital revolution from which our shareholders will profit handsomely," said Murdoch.<br /><br /><br /> &title=<b>News Corp</b> announces big profits and plans for pay walls){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/02/former_editor_takes_on_birmingham_post_w.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5569" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/businessdesk.jpg"><img alt="businessdesk.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/businessdesk-thumb-200x100-5569.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="100" width="200" /></a></form>This week, independent regional business news website, <a href="www.thebusinessdesk.com"><i>TheBusinessDesk</i></a>, launched a third regional edition in Birmingham today with <b>Marc Reeves</b> as its new editor, <a href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44980&c=1"><i>Press Gazette</i> reports</a>.<br /><br />Reeves, the former editor of the business and public affairs daily, the <i>Birmingham Post</i>, left the newspaper in January after it was turned into a weekly. His new position will place him in direct competition with his old paper.<br /> &title=Former editor takes on <i>Birmingham Post</i> with web launch){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/in_a_time_where_newspapers.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="3326" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/gannett.jpg"><img alt="gannett.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/07/gannett-thumb-200x218-3326.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="218" width="200" /></a></form>In a time where newspapers seem to be losing more and more revenue, figures from <b>Gannett Co. Inc.</b>'s fourth quarter released today, showed potential positive results for the months ahead. <br /><br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100201-708953.html">According to <i>The Wall Street Journal</i></a>, Gannett swung to a profit in the fourth quarter following $5.6 billion in prior-year write-downs. Lower declines in advertising sales combined with much lower expenses helped the newspaper publisher show improvement. <br /><br /> &title=<b>Gannett</b> sees profits and circulation increase in 4Q){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/new_york_times_gains_bay_area_subscriber.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5553" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/GoldenGateBridge.jpg"><img alt="GoldenGateBridge.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/GoldenGateBridge-thumb-200x127-5553.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="127" width="200" /></a></form><i>The New York Times</i> has gained another 1100 subscribers in the San Francisco Bay Area after launching a local section for the area last autumn, <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/01/25/daily60.html?surround=lfn">the <i>San Francisco Business Times</i> reports</a>.
<br /><br />A senior Times executive, <b>Jim Schachter</b>, told the Business Times that it wasn't just subscriptions that have risen. "Single-copy sales are up too," he said. "We're delighted at the reception we're getting from Bay Area readers for the pages that <b>Felicity Barringer</b> is editing, and for our Bay Area blog." San Francisco-based technology reporters also write for the paper's business section.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/01/us_study_shows_government_subsidies_to_m.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5525" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/unclesammoney.gif"><img alt="unclesammoney.gif" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/unclesammoney-thumb-200x275-5525.gif" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" width="200" height="275" /></a></form>Newspapers have not only lost significant advertising revenue in the last couple of years, they have also been losing government support in the form of subsidies in the last forty years, concludes a new study by the <b>University of Southern California</b>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=131&aid=176774">According to <i>Poynter</i></a>, a new study of historic subsidies and emerging trends tracks various tax breaks, reductions in postal subsidies first enacted in 1792, and upcoming cutbacks in public notices that government regulations have traditionally forced into American newspapers. The study provides valuable insight, if not clear-cut recommendations for print media to follow, about the thorny issue of government funding for media.<br /><br /> &title=US: Study shows government subsidies to media have declined){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/mcclatchy_to_trial_paywalls.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5523" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/mcclatchylogo.jpg"><img alt="mcclatchylogo.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/mcclatchylogo-thumb-200x38-5523.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="38" width="200" /></a></form>Newspaper publisher <b>McClatchy</b> is going to try out charging for content online, <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004062463"><i>Editor and Publisher</i> reports</a>.
<br /><br />Chief Executive <b>Gary Pruitt</b> said that McClatchy will trial a pay model on one of its newspaper websites, suggesting that a number of articles could be available for free before the reader hits a paywall.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/mirrorcouk_blocks_aggregator_newsnow.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5498" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newmirror.jpg"><img alt="newmirror.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/newmirror-thumb-175x89-5498.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="89" width="175" /></a></form><i>Mirror.co.uk</i> has this week followed the lead of <b>News International</b> and blocked its content from online news aggregator <b>NewsNow</b>, <a href="http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-mirror.co.uk-follows-news-int.-in-blocking-newsnow/"><i>paidContent</i> reported</a>. NewsNow is now the only site blocked from crawling the Mirror online.
<br /><br />"We're not big fans of their business model," Mirror.co.uk digital director <b>Matt Kelly</b> said.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/study_kindle_falls_short_for_reading_new.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5452" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/kindle2.jpg"><img alt="kindle2.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/kindle2-thumb-200x205-5452.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="205" width="200" /></a></form>Reading newspapers on <b>Amazon</b>'s e-book reader the Kindle is less appealing than reading the print version, <a href="http://www.uga.edu/news/artman/publish/100125_Kindle.shtml">a new study by the University of Georgia has found</a>. But portable e-readers that feature colour, photographs and touch screens could win readers back, particularly among young adults.
<br /><br />Over the course of a six-month study, participants read <i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i> on Kindles, and then provided feedback through focus groups and interviews. <br /><br />The readability of the Kindle screen impressed adults of all ages. Similarly, nearly all respondents, regardless of age, found the $489 price tag too high.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/non-profit_news_project_launches_in_conn.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5446" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/ctmirror.gif"><img alt="ctmirror.gif" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/ctmirror-thumb-200x41-5446.gif" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="41" width="200" /></a></form>A new non-profit news website has launched in Connecticut today, <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=131&aid=176435">Poynter Online</a> reports, with the dual aims of reporting the news and providing its readers access to resources that are hard to find online.
<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ctmirror.org/"><i>The Connecticut Mirror</i></a> bills itself as "an independent source of news and information about our state's government, politics and public policy". It comes in time for an important state budget and an election year.
<br /><br />Editor <b>Michael Regan</b> writes that the <a href="http://www.ctmirror.org/page/guide-connecticut-politics-government">Guide to Politics and Government</a> his site offers provides "the most comprehensive information available any where on the state's elected officials".
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2010/01/scotland_new_online_newspaper_launches.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5440" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/Caledonian-Mercury-screen-001.jpg"><img alt="Caledonian-Mercury-screen-001.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/Caledonian-Mercury-screen-001-thumb-200x120-5440.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="120" width="200" /></a></form>A new web-only daily newspaper has launched in Scotland, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/25/caledonian-mercury-scottish-press"><i>The Guardian</i> reports</a>, after <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/scotland_newspaper_launch.php">being expected for some weeks</a>.
<br /><br />Called the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/25/caledonian-mercury-scottish-press"><i>Caledonian Mercury</i></a>, the paper takes its name from one of Scotland's first news journals. It is edited and largely written by former staff from <i>The Scotsman</i> who departed after deep budget cuts at the paper. They will work as freelancers, and will be paid partly according to the "value" of their copy to readers and advertisers. How this will work is not yet clear.
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