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The Manchester Evening News website is to be relaunched with a greater emphasis on social media and live reporting, Journalism.co.uk reports.

Its parent company MEN Media plans to have all its reporters signed up to Twitter in the next few months. The Manchester Evening News and its sister titles currently have around 20-25 journalists on Twitter, head of online content Paul Gallagher told Journalism.co.uk.

"It means that when we have an event like the recent royal visit, being covered by six different journalists, we can easily pull it together in a live blog at short notice because they are all set up to tweet," Gallagher said. A liveblog was recently used to cover eight different visits made by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall.

A newspaper in Manchester has been using various multimedia tools to liveblog council meetings from across the Greater Manchester Area, Press Gazette reports.

Meetings of the local authorities are attended by a reporter from the Manchester Evening News (MEN) or one of its sister weekly publications. Reporters then use Twitter to file updates minute-by-minute. Their updates are then streamed on MEN websites using CoverItLive technology, which allows liveblogging and other forms of real-time updating.

The MEN has so far used this to report on meetings of the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities and the Greater Manchester Police Authority. The newspaper wants to extend the service so that it can cover every full meeting held by ten local authorities across Greater Manchester.

Local newspaper the Northampton Chronicle and Echo is today running a day-long live discussion with readers about what's going on in its newsroom.

Using the liveblogging software Cover-it-Live, which the newspaper has previously used to cover sporting events such as the away games of local teams, editorial staff plan to interact more directly with readers.

The Internet was responsible for Barack Obama's election to the White House, Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post claims. Although this statement will inevitably incite dissenting views, in the context of Huffington's talk on the power of the Internet it does not seem wholly unreasonable. Huffington was speaking at the Activate Conference 09, convened to discuss the social implications of the rise of the Internet and technology.  

The conference reiterated discussions of technological and cultural trends, which are conditioning not only how news needs to be presented, but how these new forms of diffusion can directly affect politics and society.

Given the current economic climate in Great Britain, there was much interest as Alistair Darling delivered his budget speech today - and naturally there was much use of new media in the coverage.

In an unusual move, Gordon Brown chose to release a message the day before the budget was announced - but even more unusual was that he chose video to do it. Whilst the video does show the Prime Minister's willingness to use multimedia, it hasn't been well received by media pundits. The Guardian describes it as "uncomfortable viewing: restless swaying mixed with some dense policy details and a lot of forced smiling".

Publisher Trinity Mirror's Merseyside-based newspapers will be teaming up this week to liveblog the titles' shift towards a new centralized editorial hub. The week-long initiative will feature eight papers, including the Liverpool Echo and the Liverpool Daily Post.

News conferences and meeting will be streamed live, video and images off the restructuring process will be uploaded and reporters will be providing additional content through Twitter.

At the WEF conference, and the sessions are starting: Krishna Bharat(Google News) and Dan Gillmor (Bayosphere) are the first speakers, with our own Andrew Nachison moderating a session with Joi Ito, Barry Sussman, and others. WEF leader Betrand Pequerie is introducing Krishna Bharat, who speaks first.
Krishna started Google News, which he created two years ago, and is currently finishing up the establishment of an Indian office for Google in Bangalore. He's explaining Google's desire to organize the world's information, and their desire to be the information intermediary for users and says that Google News is basically that information applied to news. 'We're very keen for everyone to participate in all our projects,' says Bharat, "And we certainly want that to be true of news."
Two years ago, he wrote a program for himself that crawled and aggregated news; that project was the basis for Google News.
Bharat shows clips from Google that brings related stories together; he talks a bit about the clustering technology that groups stories, the crawler, and related links/terms. He explains there are algorithms that help to prioritize stories, and others that map a story to particular categories. He also talks about filtering technologies--how Google News can decide what a story is actually about, and what editions the story is slotted for.
The first version launched in Dec 2001; most recent upgrade was March 2005's customized news upgrades.
The attributes Bharat values include publishing multiple viewpoints from multiple sources, an objectivity that a local editor might lack (he says), and efficent ways to manage news flow via alerts, personalization and of course, clustering.
"I see us as an integral part of the news community, says Bharat. "We bring value to the news community, and our clustering removes the intertia that people have in going from one news site to another.
"Our relationship with newspapers is symbiotic; we sent traffic directly to the content provider and we do not have special relationships, and we amplify the amount of news being read."
"I am hoping, he says,|" to have all newspapers participate with Google News; for our readers we want an interesting debate that makes them think."

The audience is listening intently, and yet there are whispers in the corners that make me wonder if this is familiar information--or exotic jargon--to them.
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