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NewsRight: US companies come together to monitorize their online content

Posted by Federica Cherubini on January 6, 2012 at 5:58 PM

Twenty-nine US news organizations launched yesterday, January 5, NewsRight, a digital content licensing organization. Amongst the affiliates are the Associated Press, the New York Times Co, Hearst Newspapers and the Washington Post Co.

The aim is to keep track of newspapers' content as it moves around the web in order to license and profit from it. It "will measure the unpaid online use of their original reporting and seek to convert unauthorized websites, blogs and other newsgathering services into paying customers", AP (via the Washington Post) reported.

NewsRight is an evolution of the News Registry, a project started in October 2010 by AP and some partners.

State subsidy cuts in Italy: a threat to pluralism or a rational reorganization?

Posted by Federica Cherubini on January 3, 2012 at 4:57 PM

Some Italian newspapers could be at risk due to the cuts in state subsidies that the new technocrat government is planning to implement.

The Financial Times reported last week that about 100 titles are facing closure as Mario Monti's administration confirmed cuts in public subsidies for the press from €170m to €53m budgeted for next year. These had already been proposed by the previous government led by Silvio Berlusconi.

At risk are wellknown papers such the leftwing Liberazione, Il Manifesto and L'Unità, the former communist party daily founded by Antonio Gramsci in 1924 and the Catholic daily Avvenire.

A more digital focus for Sun-Times Media after purchase by Chicago investors?

Posted by Hannah Vinter on December 22, 2011 at 8:22 PM

A local investment group is buying up Sun-Times Media for over $20 million in a move that may bring more digital focus to the media company.

The Chicago Sun-Times, one of the papers owned by Sun-Times Media, announced the deal, which was previewed in The Chicago Tribune, yesterday. The new investors include Michael Ferro Jr., Chairman of Merrick Ventures LLC, who will serve as company chairman, and the former publisher of Newsday, Timothy Knight, who will be CEO.

The group that is selling Sun-Times Media brought it out of bankruptcy in 2009, cutting costs by laying off staff, closing its own print plant and outsourcing the printing to Tribune Co. The group was originally led by former Mesirow CEO Jim Tyree, who died earlier this year. Until yesterday it was run by Jeremy Halbreich, who is stepping down to make way for Knight.

Under new ownership, the media group will keep the printed paper as a key part of its business model, but the buyout may be the start of a more digital-focused direction.

Hard times for the LA Times as editor stands down

Posted by Hannah Vinter on December 14, 2011 at 1:48 PM

Times are tough for the LA Times as Russ Stanton, who has been editor of the paper for the past four years, is standing down amidst the expectation of more job cuts.

Stanton leaves the news organisation on December 23rd and will be replaced by managing editor Davan Maharaj.

The LA Times published a positive review of Stanton's achievements with the paper, noting that under his leadership the paper extended its digital reach to over 17 million readers and won three Pulitzer Prizes.

What the Times Union print expansion says about print v digital

Posted by Katherine Travers on December 13, 2011 at 2:41 PM

The relationship between print and digital is a complex one. 'Digital first' has become a creed for many publications, hoping to ride the wave of technological disruption that has been rippling through the industry for years. Newspapers are obviously proud of their print heritage, but the tendency to put print under the category 'legacy media' doesn't show much faith in it remaining an important medium in years to come.

Yet, despite the often dismissive attitude displayed towards print, many newspapers continue to see the value in their printed product, so much so that they are in fact expanding print operations. Last week The Columbus Dispatch announced it would expand printing operations after Gannett announced it would stop printing in Cincinnati and hand over it's printing obligations to The Dispatch; evidence that while some newspapers are clearly looking to rid themselves of their printing duties, others are growing to take up their roles.

How did Il Fatto Quotidiano achieve popularity and profitability in just two years?

Posted by Federica Cherubini on December 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM

The newspaper industry is in a time of upheaval, with mainstream newspapers looking for innovative strategies to survive and thrive, to re-affirm their importance and their role in the news landscape.

Cost cutting is increasingly prevalent throughout news organisations in Europe and the US, with many publications putting more and more emphasis on digital products as they lose print readers.

Launching a new print publication in 2009 might have seemed therefore like a risky step, but it's exactly what Italian journalists Marco Travaglio, Antonio Padellaro and Peter Gomez decided to do. Il Fatto Quotidiano was launched in September 2009 and in the past two years it has managed to both establish itself as a respected newspaper brand and actually make some money, with a profit of €5.8 million in 2010.

How has it achieved this?

The pros and cons of Apple's Newsstand for newspaper publishers

Posted by Hannah Vinter on December 5, 2011 at 4:58 PM

Taking a bite of the Apple... Are there more rewards or dangers?

Apple certainly has a lot of offer new publishers, as Editor & Publisher notes in an article published today about Apple Newsstand.

The article by Tim Sohn reports that newspaper publishers are "raving" about the new portal, launched in October this year, which has given app download numbers a huge boost. According to Sohn, The New York Times has experienced a 429% increase in iPad app downloads and a 5,596% increase in iPhone app downloads since becoming part of Newsstand. The Metro UK app, available on Newsstand, has been downloaded 180,000 times since October 31, compared to an earlier app that was not part of Newsstand, which has been downloaded just 240,000 times since its launch in April 2010. The new app has also generated over 65,000 unique daily visitors and between 800,000 and 1 million page views for Metro UK's website.

Old news is good news: how Facebook is breathing new life into old stories

Posted by Katherine Travers on November 28, 2011 at 3:45 PM

News today is all about being first; 'real time' is king; users want the latest information in the quickest possible time delivered straight to their mobile device so they are constantly kept abreast of unfolding world events. Right?

Well, yes... and no.

It seems that Facebook is producing something of a Lazarus effect for old news content. Stories that were written more than a decade ago are increasingly becoming viral phenomena thanks to the new 'frictionless sharing' system introduced by the social network in September.

Don't be so square man! Experiments in non-linear storytelling

Posted by Hannah Vinter on October 27, 2011 at 5:38 PM

"Fifteen years into the Internet age and we are still publishing stories the way we published them 100 years ago," said Bill Adair, founder of Politifact at WAN-IFRA's 18th World Editors Forum in Vienna. "Just pasting on the web."

Adair's own website doesn't stick to these rules. Politifact is a fact-checking site that rates statements made by American political figures on a scale from "true" to "pants on fire". The exciting thing about the format is that stories can be sorted in different ways (all the ratings for President Obama, for example, or all the false ratings) so that readers can put the data together in their own way. Using Politifact, you get a sense of an overarching narrative, and because you have the power to sort the data, it is the story you want to see.

We've written a lot about Politifact (for example, here) but a few articles have been published recently, which show that the initiative is by no means the only one challenging old, linear story formats.

The browser as a killer app

Posted by Dean Roper on October 18, 2011 at 10:31 AM

Wolfgang Blau, editor-in-chief, Zeit Online, describes how the well-known weekly newspaper in Germany is bucking the tablet app trend by building its browser as the killer app.

"We decided early on to adopt a product-centric strategy for tablets vs. a device-centric approach," he says at the World Editors Forum session on "The steps toward a successful tablet application."

So the company decided to build an HTML5-optimised website for the tablet, and all content for that would be free, while all of its print products on the tablet would be paid-for in a conventional app.

As a result, visitors to its tablet-enhanced website are reading content for longer periods than on its traditional website, and spending more time there per visit. Naturally, Blau says, this is attractive for advertisers.

The newspaper is leveraging its data journalism strengths by integrating its code programmers into the newsroom, working alongside editors and graphics artists to help create a good reader experience.

He says there are a number of advantages to the paper's approach, including:

Scalability to other tablet types
Shorter product cycles
Lower development costs
Lower maintenance costs
Coherence of desktop and tablet solutions
Own their own metrics: "We want to know exactly who our customers are and what they are reading."
Own your own customer data
More users
Higher advertising revenue
Flexibility for new ad formats

On the downside, they have no in-app purchase possibilities and no push alerts, but he thinks this will be solved in the future.

He points out that this approach would probably be difficult for a daily.

World press trends: Newspapers still reach more than internet

Posted by Anton Jolkovski on October 13, 2011 at 3:18 PM

by Larry Kilman

Newspaper circulation declined in print world-wide last year, but was more than made up by an increase in digital audiences, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) says in its annual update of world press trends.

"Circulation is like the sun. It continues to rise in the East and decline in the West," says Christoph Riess, CEO of WAN-IFRA, who presents the annual survey at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum.

Following the Austrian example

Posted by Anton Jolkovski on October 13, 2011 at 11:27 AM

by Dean Roper

"This global meeting is taking place at an extremely exciting and challenging time for our industry," says Hans Gasser, president of VÖZ, the Austrian Newspaper Publishers Association, during his welcome presentation to the 1,100 participants at the joint opening session of the 63rd World Newspaper Congress and 18th World Editors Forum.

"This means facing the challenges of strengthening, on one hand, our core competences to provide our dedicated customers with what they have come to expect in terms of quality content, while on the other hand developing all our cross-media solutions and content to enrich our portfolio and reach a new audience."

Making the mobile boom work in Africa

Posted by Alexandra Iselin Waldhorn on October 11, 2011 at 10:39 AM

Across Africa, newspapers are taking advantage of the continent's cell phone boom.

Currently, 218 million people throughout the continent use their cellphone to go online, and the number is projected to increase to over 435 million by 2015. Newspapers in countries, from South Africa, Ghana to Rwanda, are exploiting this trend as a new way to disseminate news and reach broader readership.

"There are editors who are doing just SMS and then there's people who are doing mobile apps for smart phones," said Louise Hallman, project manager for the Mobile News for Africa project. "When we talk about mobile Africa, it's not the same in every country. There are major differences between different countries."

Poynter's Bill Mitchell on paywalls - how to shape the paid experience

Posted by Hannah Vinter on October 4, 2011 at 11:17 AM

As digital media grows and print revenue shrinks, papers around the world are struggling to find ways to make online news pay. One of the most obvious - and most controversial - solutions has been the paywall. But getting people to pay for content is no easy task if they feel they can the same thing for free elsewhere.

Bill Mitchell, Head of Entrepreneurial and International Programs at the Poynter Institute, offers his expert opinion here. He talks about how "charging today for something that was free yesterday is fundamentally a non-starter". Yet paywalls can work if papers invest in flexible systems, exploit their journalists' expertise in niche areas, and, crucially, offer readers their money's worth in terms of new value.

Mitchell will be speaking at the 18th World Editors Forum in Vienna about paid online content from the perspective of the newsroom.

WAN-IFRA: News organisations have different paywall systems, from The New York Times' metered paywall to the more or less straightforward paywall of The Times of London. What's the best model?

MITCHELL: I think the so-called 'leaky' wall is the best bet as opposed to a hard wall. With an emerging business model like this, flexibility is really critical and the metered or 'leaky' wall enables flexibility across many fronts. It enables the publisher to shape the terms of the two fundamental experiences that it offers to its customers: the paid experience and the free experience.

WAN-IFRA Have paywalls changed the way journalists and newsrooms work?

MITCHELL: I think so. I was just talking with the editor of the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia, who's in the Press Plus metered paywall system. He was talking about the way in which the newsroom is focused on creating two kinds of experiences for users: the free experience and the paid experience. And by way of example he said that even when quite a bit of great news is available without charge, the experience that you have as a paid user is quite different. He described it in terms of being a more relaxing experience for the user, who's not interrupted with pop ups, and finds the material organised well along the lines of topics. I think that to create these experiences is going to require a great deal of newsroom work.

WAN-IFRA: Will the content of the news change as a result of paywalls being put up?

MITCHELL: I think that the idea of charging today for something that was free yesterday is fundamentally a non-starter, economically. The user really needs to see evidence of new value. And new value means changing the way that the content is presented and gathered and the way that publishers enable their customers to put that content to use. I think in at least those three respects there's going to be quite a bit of change.

WAN-IFRA: Do you think that niche publications will fare better with paywalls than general news sites?

MITCHELL: I think for the most part yes. A niche publication offers the user the opportunity to get content that either helps them do their job better, because it's focused on their area of employment, or really addresses a personal passion. But I think this doesn't close the door to general interest publications because most are made up of a number of niches.

WAN-IFRA: Do you think that paywalls can generate enough money to replace the decline in print revenue?

MITCHELL: No, I think that one has a pretty simple answer. As promising as the meter has been in generating additional revenue it doesn't begin to replace the revenue that a combination of traditional print subscriptions and various forms of advertising have generated in the past. But I think that revenue is going to be an important part of what will emerge as a much more diffuse hybrid revenue strategy for news organisations.

WAN-IFRA: Is there a danger that news organisations that put up paywalls will block themselves off from the rest of the web and not be able to generate fresh users?

MITCHELL: There is with the hard wall, because imagine the traffic you turn away when big news happens in your market and people searching around the world are turned away from a link from Google. Again, I think this speaks to the wisdom of the meter over the hard wall.

Publishers are finding a couple ways of doing it. The New York Times, for example, I believe enables links from search engines in a way that does not count against the metered number of articles per month. But even newspapers that do count search traffic against the meter are finding that because a typical drive-by or user is visiting only when big news happens, they don't consume enough articles over the course of the month to represent much of a barrier.

WAN-IFRA: Can you name other good models you've seen for monetising content online?

MITCHELL: I think that some of the strategies that are beginning to make up overall hybrid revenue approach include ideas about membership. In some ways, you can think of membership as an enhanced subscription relationship. A membership in a news organisation might involve things like regular events. It might involve the opportunity to host free classified ads if you're selling your piano or buying a second car.

Online advertising, while not directly tied to monetising content, is also an area where lots of things are changing. I think that, just as user-generated content is changing the way journalism gets done, user-generated advertising will reduce some of the production costs for advertising initiatives. That will open up the area of advertising to small business owners who traditionally have been priced out of the market for most publications.

Another revenue model is the social media consultancy that some news organisations are beginning to develop. Pretty much all companies with enough of a marketing budget to advertise in a newspaper -- and many that don't -- are developing social media marketing strategies. How do they most effectively use Twitter and Facebook and such locational tools as Foursquare to grow their businesses? Many companies are struggling with this challenge, experiencing the kind of pain that news organizations can help relieve with the expertise their staffs have been developing with social media. This is an opportunity both for news organizations to grow their business with exiting advertisers and to develop new relationships with clients that once considered the newspaper too expensive.

WAN-IFRA: As newspaper revenue becomes more uncertain, is it increasingly necessary for editors to be involved in business decisions?

MITCHELL: I think it is. I think this can happen in a way that serves both the journalism and the commerce as long as both the business-side and the news-side colleagues agree upon the importance of editorial independence. There's a way of creating new editorial products and services that create so much new value that they also generate revenue. But it's still important to do that in a way that the focus of the journalism is not on the revenue itself but on making the user an important person in the equation.

WAN-IFRA: Can you give an example of a news organisation that has done a good job of that so far?

MITCHELL: Here's one example: The Miami Herald was faced with needing more revenue to support its journalism. So it has created an iPhone app with content focused on the Miami Dolphins football team. The news and business side worked together to create it, and it has become something of an annuity for The Herald because people buy it every year.

It goes [back] to your question about the challenge that is faced by general interest publications. There's nothing more general interest than a metro daily newspaper, but among the niches they have is sports fans who are passionate about Miami Dolphins. They drilled down into that particular niche, and the journalists and the people on the business side were able to collaborate on creating a product that generates revenue.

WAN-IFRA: What do you think the future of online news will be?

MITCHELL: The real answer is that I don't know. But I think key characteristics will involve experimentation and at least as much failure as success. I think that changes will be as significant on the journalists' side as on the financial side because of the essential challenge of creating new value if you're going to seek new revenue. They're going to be creating new forms of journalism that are, for audiences and communities, much better than before.

Media links of the day

Posted by Katherine Travers on October 3, 2011 at 4:29 PM

Google's latest advertising strategy aims to imitate the good, old-fashioned Sunday newspaper print circular.

A bloggers dilemma - which platform should you choose? Poynter has a handy guide to teach you the pros and cons of Wordpress and Drupal.

Twitter-jacking: Thai P.M.'s Twitter account has hacked by her opponents, claiming: "If she can't even protect her own Twitter account, how can she protect the country? Think about it."

French newspaper group Les Echos has a new CEO: Francis Morel, the former head of Le Figaro.

Le Monde's use of data visualisation: this report from French data visualisation blog suggests the paper could do better...?

For more industry news please see WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service

Sources: Bloomberg, DataVisualisation.fr, The Guardian, Le Monde, Poynter,

Yahoo! to launch a personalised digital reader Livestand

Posted by Katherine Travers on September 19, 2011 at 5:59 PM

Yahoo! is launching its own personalised digital newsstand product this autumn, which it describes as a 'game changer.' First announced in February, the newsstand and personalisation platform will be called will be an application called Livestand and include an array of content from the likes of Forbes and more specialist titles, including one specialist surf title.

Livestand is based around HTML5, as is Yahoo!'s webmail site, which aims to offer a better customer experience for users while being platform-agnostic.

Media links of the day

Posted by Katherine Travers on August 31, 2011 at 5:33 PM

For analysis of The Reuters Insititute of Journalism study on public money and the media, take a look at The Guardian.

The Associated Press alters its release deadlines to accommodate an ever more global audience. 3 A.M. deadlines, anyone?

Good news for local news: local sites see a 25% growth in traffic during 2011.

How your readers use Facebook: older readers are more likely to click through to an advertisement page, while younger audience members tend to use the 'like' button more.

Gannett and Yahoo have extended their ad deal to cover 19 Gannett's local TV stations.

Sources: The Associated Press, The Guardian , Journalism.com , PaidContent (1) , (2)

For more industry news please see WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service

Simon Kelner: 'i' the right product for the right market

Posted by Hannah Vinter on August 24, 2011 at 12:26 PM

As Editor of The Independent in the U.K. for 13 years, Simon Kelner oversaw this quality national daily during a period of incredible change in the industry. Although he stepped down from his daily duties as Editor in July, passing the torch to Chris Blackhurst, Kelner's legacy remains.

In 2003 he oversaw the redesign of the paper in compact form, an innovation so successful that other major British dailies followed suit. And last year he presided over the launch of i, a lower-priced digest of stories from The Independent targeted at on-the-go readers.

Kelner is due to speak at the World Editors Forum in Vienna (12-15 October) about i and its success so far.

WAN-IFRA: i was launched last October. Nine months on, how would you rate its success?

KELNER: It's been a tremendous success. The circulation sales followed the normal trajectory of a launch - very high at the start and then slowly came down to a very healthy level. But then we came back at the start of this year with a big advertising campaign and sales have continued to grow ever since then. Now we're selling around about 180,000 a day.

WAN-IFRA: Do you think having smaller, cheaper editions that synthesize the news is something that will catch on with other dailies?

KELNER: I think it has given a lot of newspaper organisations pause for thought, the idea that you could launch a new printed product that gave people what they wanted at an affordable price, as you say synthesizing the material that you already produce. And it's successful.

WAN-IFRA: How do reader profiles of i compare to those of The Independent?

KELNER: i has a younger more metropolitan readership. It's a newspaper that was targeted at a young, mobile commuter-focused audience.

WAN-IFRA: Maybe something more like The Evening Standard or The Metro?

KELNER: It's much more up-market than The Metro. And obviously The Metro's free and i has a cover price. But it's targeted at people who are on the move, who have busy lifestyles and i fits into their profile.

WAN-IFRA: i is only 20p, a fifth of the price of the Independent. If it proves too successful, could that be a threat to profitability?

KELNER: No. One of the very encouraging things ever since i has launched is that it hasn't cannibalised the sales of The Independent too much. And the same is true of other quality papers as well. It's definitely grown the market in terms of quality readership.

WAN-IFRA: In April i expanded with a Saturday edition - how have readers responded?

KELNER: We only launched the Saturday edition in response to reader demand. It [i] was launched originally as a Monday-to-Friday product. We've responded to the needs of our readers all the way along, in small ways and in quite large ways. And obviously launching the Saturday was quite a major thing for us, but it was very much in response to what readers wanted. And they've supported it and we're very, very pleased with the level of sales on the Saturday.

WAN-IFRA: Marketing and promotion played a major role in the success of launching i... how do you think newspapers can better market their print products?

KELNER: I think what i proved is that if you have a product that meets a need in the market and you have marketing that communicates what is the proposition of the product then it's the formula for a success.

WAN-IFRA: So it has to come from two directions. It's not just about marketing, it's about getting the product right at the beginning?

KELNER: You can have the best marketing in the world and if the product doesn't meet the needs of the audience you're not going to do very well. What we started off with was assessing what the needs of the audience were and then directing a product very much at those needs.

WAN-IFRA: In 2003 you were named Editor Of The Year at the 'What the Papers Say' awards, and the judges commented, among other things, on your 'arresting front page designs'. What's important on front page?

KELNER: Well the front page is your shop window really and it's the best bit of marketing communication that you can put before the public. So if you're editing a paper everything's important, the comment pages, the sports pages, but the front page is the most important of all because a lot of our sale comes from casual purchase and if you can arrest people's attention at the newsagents where there's all those other products then you're halfway there.

WAN-IFRA: With nearly 2 million copies of The News of the World off the stands now, will quality papers try to fill some of that void?

KELNER: I think we've seen that, since the News of the World has gone, a lot of sales have gone to their direct competitors like the Sunday Mirror and the People and The Star. I think a lot of quality newspaper readers bought the News of the World but they bought it in addition to a quality paper so I'm not sure that there's much for us to gain by the demise of the News of the World.

Media links of the day

Posted by Katherine Travers on August 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM

Decentralised newspaper sub-editing: fancy sleeping on the job? Guardian blogger Roy Greenslade outlines the cushy future of editing.

Another Trinity Mirror title in trouble: Welsh regional moves from free paper to charging a purchase cost as advertising revenues drop.

Tablet technology: As Apple is reportedly about to start work on the latest version of the iPad, H.P. announces that it will be splitting the company and focusing increasingly on software, as it can no longer compete with Apple products, like the iPad.

Is that a real word? See what's new in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. New additions include such delights as 'mankini', 'jeggings' and , notably, 'retweet '

Sources: Daily Mirror, GigaOm, The Guardian (1) , (2) , Reuters ,

Media links of the day

Posted by Teemu Henriksson on July 26, 2011 at 4:40 PM

News & Tech reported on The Honolulu Star-Advertiser's recent decision to start charging for its website's content. As from 3rd August, the newspaper will charge $19,95 a month for both digital and print access, and it has yet to decide the price of digital subscription. The paper will also launch a new digital edition for the iPad, iPhone and ereaders.

Flipboard, an app that turns Twitter and Facebook feeds into an app-like reading experience, is introducing advertising: the company is launching a partnership with publishers such as Conde Nast to push their ads into the Flipboard app, GigaOm reported. Selected brands will appear in full-page ads as part of publishers' content.

According to paidContent's calculations, the revenue of Mail Online, the second most visited newspaper site in the world, are growing, but not as fast as its audience numbers are. Mail Online and Metro.co.uk are making 51 percent more revenue than last year, but over the same period, Mail Online's monthly unique users went up 82 percent.

Editor & Publisher reported on Newspaper National Network LP's (NNN) launch of the NNN Hispanic Network. The network of US Hispanic newspaper media reaches over 50 million Hispanic consumers through virtually every Hispanic newspaper in the US. "The launch of NNN Hispanic raises the bar instantly regarding how Hispanic media is represented and sold," said Mike Cano, the new director of Hispanic Media at the NNN.

For more industry news please see WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service

Media links of the day

Posted by Katherine Travers on July 20, 2011 at 6:16 PM

When it comes to social media, not all sites are created equal. MediaBistro sifted a recent social networking study from Pew Internet, zeroing in on educational data of users. According to the study, Twitter users are better educated than Facebook users. However, LinkedIn users blew them both away, with nearly 40% having attended graduate school.

The New York Observer chronicled Conde Nast's struggle to adapt to digital mediums. It noted that the iPad is not the panacea it hoped it would be, and that no staff is in charge of designing tablet-friendly contenet. http:/

Need to build a news app team? Let Poynter show you how.

Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the US and the owner of the Newsquest group in Britain, reported a 22-percent-drop in profit, the Guardian's Roy Greenslade reported. The decline reflects the advertising slump that is affecting the whole newspaper industry.

The New York Times analyses Murdoch's troubles in the U.S and how the British phone hacking scandal could influence the F.C.C. in its review of media ownership rules.

For more industry news please see WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service

The evolution of content sharing

Posted by Florence Pichon on July 15, 2011 at 3:09 PM

In a university journalism class, Davin Harner asked his students where they had first heard the news about Bin Laden's death. Although these students studied journalism, not a single one named a newspaper. Most, in fact, named Facebook. The one student that cited CNN corrected himself saying, "I heard about it on Facebook, and then I turned on CNN to find out more."

Although Harner's anecdote demonstrates the importance of Facebook, Twitter, and other digital communication for sharing news, it should come as no surprise to a user of a social media platform. Facebook and Twitter instantly become abuzz with updates when news breaks or an anticipated sports game ends. Sharing on social media has become almost an instinct to its users. It creates a conversation beyond than the bounds of journalism itself.

Le Parisien announces €30 million restructure

Posted by Florence Pichon on July 11, 2011 at 3:51 PM

Inclusion in ePresse, the new digital kiosk for French publishers, is not the only change on the horizon for Le Parisien. In light of recent figures of circulation decline, the French regional publication is restructuring its approach to print and diversifying alongside it.

Last Friday, the Amaury Group (owner of Le Parisien) announced it would be investing 30 million euros into the paper. The paper will unveil its redesigned format in 2012, which will be more colorful and with enhanced sections. In addition to the new format, Le Monde

reported that the newspaper would launch a weekly lifestyle magazine next year. In test editions, it included articles on events, do-it-yourself projects, gardening, and education.

The Economist eats its words with promising special report

Posted by Florence Pichon on July 8, 2011 at 4:50 PM

Following up on its 2006 report on newspapers' troubles, The Economist published a new 14-page special report on the future of news today.

"Who killed the news?" dominated The Economist's cover five years ago, and the following report was about as bleak as the headline. The report chronicled the industry's loss of advertising revenue, declining circulation, and competition with citizen journalists and bloggers. One article went so far as to claim, "Newspapers have not yet started to shut down in large numbers, but is only a matter of time."

Things seem to be looking up this time around. In this week's special edition, titled "Back to the coffee house", The Economist admits that its last report may have jumped the gun. American and European newspapers still face the same problems, but little by little they are adapting to current circumstances. Reinvention is key to survival.

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