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One month after its initial trial period, a meeting of about 30 editors will be held in Atlanta to hear about CNN's wire service.

CNN has made plans to broaden its service to provide coverage of national, international and possibly local events "on a smaller scale and at a lower cost" than the Associated Press, according to Editor and Publisher.

Reuters has named Jonathan Ford, founder deputy editor of Breaking News, to the newly created post of "commentary editor," a move by the news agency to broaden its service to "more than just breaking news," Press Gazette is reporting.

The agency has recently adopted a policy to expand its content, including adding columns in 2007 and encouraging correspondents to write more "color" pieces.

The decision to include editorial and commentary content adds "context and expertise," and allows the agency to cover a range of business topics, Reuters said.

Source:  Press Gazette

The World Internet report by the Centre for the Digital Future is reporting that fewer American youth have access to the Internet than those in the Czech Republic, Canada, Macao and Britain. 

The 13-country survey among 12 to 14 year olds showed that 100% of British youth use the Internet, with Israel at 98%.  Only 88% of Americans age 12 to 14 have access, followed by Hungary and Singapore.

Mobile phone access to the Internet is increasing outside of the US, particularly in Southeast Asia, according to a separate bulletin by a software company.

Source:  Reuters via EJC

Following the announcement that Reuters, AP and AFP were suspending cricket coverage due to unacceptable accreditation terms from Australia's governing body, Cricket Australia, New Zealand's largest newspapers remained barred from covering cricket matches.

According to Cricket Australia spokesman, Peter Young, "The New Zealand Herald, Fairfax Media-owned titles and the New Zealand Press Association have not received accreditation after failing to join a scheduled teleconference." 

The editorial integrity of journalism is "threatened" by traditional and citizen journalists using the Internet to "distort" information, Reuters' global editor of multimedia for news Chris Cramer said last night.

In an address at Nottingham Trent University, Cramer emphasized that news organizations must work to separate themselves from the nascent 'electronic mob rule' of online journalists who seek to strengthen their own messages.

The Huffington Post's news and commentary website could be raising money to fund "investigative journalism projects," according to a Reuters blog by Robert MacMillan.

Founder Arianna Huffington made the announcement at a panel discussion yesterday, saying that further details wouldn't come for at least three months.

Huffington's website is "small compared with big professional publishers," but, MacMillan reports, "she's latching on to a growing trend."  

Online investigative journalism "ventures," such as Mark Cuban's sharesleuth.com and bailoutsleuth.com, or ProPublica.org, a privately funded operation directed by Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Paul Steiger, take on a watchdog role that is difficult to fund at "traditional media outlets" in a financially failing industry.  Time will tell if these news sites will have staying power.

Source:  Reuters blog

According to The National, the first ever Arabic-language business daily newspaper will be launched in January in the United Arab Emirates.  The launch of the paper is part of I-Media, an integrated media project which will "include a financial news online portal in Arabic and English, a mobile news services and the first Arabic economic news radio channel."

Qusai Aljamous, the paper's executive editor in chief said the paper will be a 40-page broadsheet titled, Alroya Altiqtissadiya, which means Economy Vision in Arabic.  The initial circulation will be 20,000, targeting business-savvy readers.  In addition, the paper will be accompanied by a 16-page tabloid supplement focusing on real-estate, banking, the stock market, commodities, tourism and lifestyle. 

Reuters, AP and AFP have announced that they are suspending all coverage of cricket matches, training sessions and events for cricket in Australia because they claim to have been faced with "unacceptable accreditation terms from Australia's governing body, Cricket Australia," according to the News Media Coalition.

According to NMC, "no text stories, photos or video of any of the training sessions, matches, press conferences or events will be distributed by the international news agencies to media around the world for the first test against New Zealand later this month, and potentially for the South Africa test coming up in December."

China has agreed to loosen restrictions on foreign news and information providers inside the country, where government controls were tightened in 2006.  The agreement settles a trade dispute with the United States, the European Union and Canada.

International news and information agencies such as Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and Dow Jones & Company will be able to "more freely compete and sell their services inside China" under the agreement, the New York Times reports.

Google announced that it will launch a new feature to help business that use its Site Search service to instantly incorporate and update new web pages, according to Reuters.

Website owners will now be able to add new web pages immediately so that the most recent information shows up when searching. 

Google backed out of an upcoming search advertising partnership with Yahoo! yesterday after a negative response from the regulatory federal government.

The US Justice Department planned to file a lawsuit to block the deal, announcing Wednesday that "Yahoo's competition likely would have been blunted immediately," as Google would have "placed its more lucrative ads on Yahoo searches."

On October 29 the Washington Post launched an online map that brings together all aspects of the presidential campaign, according to Editor & Publisher.  The "TimeSpace Election" gives users access too all of the coverage on the election categorized by geography, subject matter or date of publication.

According to comScore, an Internet information provider, the HuffingtonPost.com is the leading site among stand-alone political blogs and news sites with 4.5 million visitors in September, Reuters reported.

Huffington Post is followed by Politico.com with 2.4 million visitors and DrudgeReport.com with 2.1 million.  Realclearpolitics.com had the highest increase of users with a six-fold increase.

Source: European Journalism Centre, Reuters

At the recent Frankfurt Book Fair, exhibitors agreed that the future of electronic reading devices faces serious competition.  Most agreed that e-readers are unlikely to replace books.

There are a few reasons: First, the e-reader does not capture the true essence of a book.  Second, it faces competition from other devices used for consuming digital media, such as the cell phone (which most people already own).  Third, the price of the e-reader (anywhere from $300 to $800) combined with the current financial climate, makes it even less likely to become mainstream.

After recently announcing a deal with Reuters, Web-based news forecaster Hubdub reported a partnership with UK daily newspaper The Independent that gives it a section on Hubdub's site. The publication's online viewers now have the chance to bet cyber cash on the outcome of news events.

The Independent will assemble current affairs questions for Hubdub users and plans to include links to the title's top stories in the future. A Hubdub widget is also being developed for independent.co.uk.

Hubdub founder Nigel Eccles said that he hopes to establish a user base that would boost Web traffic for news outlets as the user base expands.

Source: Journalism.co.uk

Following on from his presentation at the World Association of Newspapers' Digital Publishing and Readership Conference in Amsterdam yesterday, Thomson Reuters Product Manager for Mobile, Ilicco Elia, told the Editors Weblog that mobile publishing did not create significant additional work in the newsroom.


Elia also reported that they have one publishing system for all platforms, and if they chose to, they can publish to all channels simultaneously.

Reuters have noted that the most popular content with their readers is stock exchange data. Elia believes that mobile content is popular with users for useful information when on the move, ie, restaurants in the locality, rather than for in-depth pieces.

Elia also said that they are upgrading the equipment they give to journalist, the team are now being given Nokia N82 phones. However, rather that each reporter being given one as part of their own reporting equipment, Elia says they will have a number of them in their newsroom and that journalists will take them as and when they need them.

Photo by Emiel Muijderman

In a recent survey, 200 blogging journalists from 30 different countries were interviewed about the effects of blogging on the process of journalism.  According to the survey, respondents came from all sectors of the news industry; almost half worked in the newspaper industry, and one third were online-only or freelance.

The survey found that as of 2008, 70% of US newspapers, 85% of UK news organizations, and 44% of European news organizations were offering journalist-authored blogs.