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Arthur Sulzberger on charging online: to succeed, we need to take risks

Posted by Emma Heald on September 8, 2010 at 7:15 PM

Chairman and publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, stressed the need to take risks and not be afraid of failure in the quest to find a business model that can adequately support high quality journalism. He was speaking at the WAN-IFRA 9th International Newsroom Summit in London.

The New York Times is due to introduce a 'metered' paywall in early 2011. Readers will be allowed to access a certain number of articles free each month, then will be asked to pay. "This has the benefit of allowing our millions of readers who come to us through search engine to still find our content," Sulzberger specified, while those who use the site heavily will be charged.

Media Links of the Day

Posted by Dawn Osakue on September 8, 2010 at 6:22 PM

The Local East Village gives us another opportunity to explore the ways to provide quality online journalism to communities here and across the country," Mary Ann Giordano, a Times deputy editor, has said regarding NYT's new hyperlocal site.

An Australian court has ruled that copyright laws do not protect newspaper headlines.

PressGazette reports that "former labor minister Denis MacShane has called for the Freedom of Information Act to be extended to apply to media organizations.

Nytimes.com may have fewer visitors because of its paywall announcement, but it is the only newspaper site with more traffic than gawker media, according to ComScore July figures.

Recently, there has been a 'one-app-every-day' development. Sporting News Today has announced plans to release "a branded iPad app offering hundreds of pages of sports coverage for $2.99 a month." Click here to find out more.

Will the digital age help freedom of speech in China?

Posted by Stefanie Chernow on September 8, 2010 at 6:06 PM

It goes without saying that China's freedom of speech record is one of the poorest in the world. Last year Reporters Without Boarders ranked the country at 168 out of 175 total countries and territories, reports the Time. Yet the internet revolution has made access to information easier, thus making it harder for government officials to control what the population consumes. Most Chinese people get their news from microblogs, as they don't trust the government owned media enterprise Xinhua. Many people turn to Yeeyan.org, a translating social network, which allows the Chinese to read content that was published in English. It seems that the harder the press and the people fight for journalistic freedom, the harder the government will try to contain it.

Last week Reporters without Borders announced that the Chinese government have mandated microblogging sites to self-appoint officials who will be responsible for censoring content. Likewise, mobile users who purchase a SIM card will have to register the chip to their name, which includes a photo copy of their identification. Current users of mobile phones have 3 years to register their SIM card with public officials "China's censors are giving themselves an additional layer of control," Reporters Without Borders states on their website. "The Great Firewall of China is getting human reinforcements to boost its effectiveness. But if they are held to strict performance criteria, it seems these commissioners are being assigned an impossible mission, given the volume of information circulating online for which they will be responsible."

findstringers.com: A way for freelancers and newsrooms to meet?

Posted by Dawn Osakue on September 8, 2010 at 5:21 PM

"A global network will be launched this week designed to bridge the gap between news organisations and journalists across the world," Rachel McAthy has reported on journalism.co.uk. Findstringers.com will serve as a network where publishers can find freelancers and vice versa.

According to McAthy, founder Gary Symons developed the concept based on his experiences as a freelancer. "I became very familiar with the freelance world and some of the problems associated with it. Two of the big ones are that you have to find people to hire you...secondly if you're taking video, photos or that kind of thing then you've actually got to get your digital material to that person." Findstringers.com thus aims to fully integrate the journalist with the newsroom "within five seconds."

Mobile devices summed up for the future

Posted by Stefanie Chernow on September 8, 2010 at 4:19 PM

The future of journalism is uncertain given all the digital changes. From the print to the iPad, from the investigative journalist to the citizen journalist, the whirlwind of trends makes defining the newspaper's future confusing. Poynter's blog "Mobile Media" addresses the five key issues in journalism.

1. Mobile devices = hybrid journalism. "The debate of the past few years has been bloggers and 'citizen journalists' vs. professional reporters, editors and photographers," writes Mobile Media's author Damon Kiesow. It's important to accept the fact that the public now has a greater voice in journalism, and the industry must work with it instead of against it. Editors and journalists need to welcome crowdsourced information, yet define ways to check for validity.

TheBusinessDesk.com registers 50,000th user

Posted by Dawn Osakue on September 8, 2010 at 2:41 PM

Circulation of print editions may be dropping, but newspapers still have reason to believe that print has a secure future. However, Internet paper TheBusinessDesk.com has confirmed the potential of digital news by recently signing up its 50,000th user.

"This is a phenomenal rate of growth that clearly demonstrates that the future of regional media is digital," TheBusinessDesk.com's founder David Parkin stated. He went on to attribute the growth to a demand by consumers for "core service, namely free quality regional business news and information, delivered through the web, email, our iPhone app or via mobile devices." The news websites reportedly receive more than 250,000 visitors monthly.

Journalists must rethink the place of "users" in the industry

Posted by Stefanie Chernow on September 8, 2010 at 1:44 PM

Journalism schools are in a frenzy trying to adjust to the changes in the newspaper industry. Schools everywhere are modifying their curriculums, ranging from offering new certificates to renovating degree programs entirely. Students need to know new areas of studies to keep up with changing technologies, and for the first time journalists need to keep up with computers, search engines, and mobile apps to survive. Yet these are all "hardware" skills. The "software" skills come from the insight to see how the digital revolution is changing the relationship journalists have with the public. Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at NYU, gave a welcoming speech to students entering Science Po's journalism degree program (An expanded form of his speech can be found on his website). Rosen emphasized that new journalists (along with more seasoned professionals) need to change the way they think about their connection with the public, as the two are morphing into a much more active part of the journalism domain.

Rosen began his speech by recalling the days before popular print. 250 years ago, public opinion mattered very little and all the decisions that affected society were considered the "King's Business." With the emergence of print, people started to become interested in society as ideas started to spread. Newspapers started to get people to react to the world, instead of just consume it. The public became "thinkable," which is where the foundation of journalism began. Rosen goes on to list his advise to the students:

Media Links of the Day

Posted by Dawn Osakue on September 7, 2010 at 6:22 PM

PolitiFact has added another newspaper to its network, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. This latest Truth-O-Meter website is called PolitiFact Wisconsin.

London Metro launches a game app. The Metro Fantasy Football app is London Metro's first non-free product.

Sony has come up with a new line of e-readers while the iPad now has a major challenger: Samsung's Galaxy Tab.

Discussions are still pouring in on Mike Wise's fake tweet and subsequent suspension. Andrew Alexander pours out his heart about Wise, Twitter and fabricated news

The French press' reacts to AFP's plans of providing news directly to consumers.

While Idea Lab has discovered that training citizen journalists can go a long way, the SAE Institute has decided there's still a gap to be filled in the training of professional journalists. To help fill this gap, the institute is now providing a certificate course in Digital Journalism.

The Evening Standard plans to increase daily distribution from 600,000 to 700,000. Editor Geordie Greig believes "the increased distribution would give the Standard two million readers a day during the 2012 Olympics."

Guardian makes room for bloggers

Posted by Stefanie Chernow on September 7, 2010 at 5:53 PM

For MediaGuardian's ten year anniversary, the news source commented on the rising of blogs. With the creation of blog platforms, anyone who wants to publish on the web now has access to the technology. Yet it took the journalism field a long time to take bloggers seriously, as there was a distinct line between trained journalists and bloggers. Recently newspapers have made steps to acknowledge the worth of bloggers in the online news age. The Guardian has recently launched a network of science blogs and scientists, rather than just journalists, have direct access to publishing their content on the Guardian for the everyday viewer, reports Nieman Journalism Lab.

Four blogs comprise the newly-launched blog network. "Life and Physics" is written by Jon Butterworth, a physics professor at the University College of London. Former MP Evan Harris writes about the interaction of science and society in his new blog "Political Science." "Punctuated Equilibrium" is written by an evolutionary scientist, while "The Lay Scientist," a blog which incorporates anything else, is overseen by researcher Martin Robbins. What is interesting about this group of authors is none of them are traditionally recognized as journalists, but they are more than qualified to write in-depth articles in their field. Instead of competing against blogs, the Guardian has decided to use other types of professionals to report on special issues which may go beyond the scope of traditional journalists.

In the digital debates, Wikipedia founder encourages apps

Posted by Stefanie Chernow on September 7, 2010 at 3:12 PM

In the ongoing paywall debate, the media industry still hasn't quite figured out how to monetize a digital business model. Some believe that the paywall is a necessity for survival, while others believe it is morally wrong. Some believe that applications are the key to a thriving newspaper industry, while others doubt e-readers and mobile apps can save the industry without having a creative business model at its backbone. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is the most recent Internet entrepreneur to voice his opinion on the subject. Editor and Publisher reports Wales believes news organizations should embrace mobile news and that in time the paid model will develop.

"The apps model - the iPad app, the Kindle - does provide new and interesting opportunities for newspapers," Wales notes. "If I just click on my iPad, and it's billed on my normal bill, that micropayment model makes it possible for people to have an impulse purchase." Some news outlets have considered shifting from a purchase-by-issue model to micropayments that allows readers to buy exactly the type of articles they want to read. In theory this makes sense, as digital newspapers promote articles through search engines rather than per issue. However these micropayments have yet to be successful. "I'm not going to pull out my credit card out of my wallet, It's way too much trouble. But if I have a way of just clicking and I get it and I pay a little, it's worth it," explains Wales. This might indicate that newspapers may try asking for credit card information at registration so when users want to buy an article it facilitates the process.

Atlantic Premium : The Atlantic's new iPad edition.

Posted by Dawn Osakue on September 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM

Already selling single editions on the iPad, The Atlantic plans to launch a premium version of its mobile magazine, Stacy Kramer has reported on paidContent.org. "In coming weeks, the magazine publisher plans to convert single-issue app sales to an iPad digital newsstand app--and to launch Atlantic Premium, a daily bundle of everything the magazine produces online for a monthly access fee," the article stated.

Launched last month, The Atlantic's iPad edition has so far received a relatively positive reception. "It was better than I expected," Scott Havens, VP of digital strategy and operations, was quoted as saying in reference to sales figures. "We're watching what other people are doing and the success of different pricing models. One thing we're very keen to do is establish value for our content," he continued.

Award: Poland's Metro named 2010 World Young Reader Newspaper of the Year

Posted by Emma Heald on September 7, 2010 at 12:35 PM

The Metro newspaper in Poland has been named the 2010 World Young Reader Newspaper of the Year in the annual competition organized by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishing (WAN-IFRA).

The newspaper also won the top prize for public service with its widely followed debate and educational campaign that encouraged young readers to question their attitudes towards Internet piracy.

World Young Reader Prizes recognise newspaper companies that have devised the best projects and activities to promote newspaper reading and usage, on all platforms, among those under 25. Prizes are awarded in eight categories: brand, editorial, making the news, newspapers in education, public service, connecting with mobile, research-based strategies, and enduring excellence.

Descriptions of the winning projects can be found here.

Can Emphas.is bring crowd funding to photojournalism?

Posted by Emma Heald on September 7, 2010 at 12:02 PM

Emphas.is is a new platform for photojournalism that hopes to find a business model to sustain the profession, by creating "a unique bond between photojournalists and their audience." Due to launch in early 2011, its website went live at the end of August.

It would work via crowd funding, "with a difference," the website says. The incentive to contribute would be "exclusive access to top photojournalists." This will work, says the site, because there are many photojournalism enthusiasts out there who would be interested in providing support, many amateur photographers who would be eager for contact with professionals, as well as many people who care about the different issues that photojournalists can address.

French Media Links

Posted by Stefanie Chernow on September 6, 2010 at 6:13 PM

Here is a quick summary of media news from Le Monde:

Last Friday, the satire newspaper La Mèche was launched. "There will be no advertisements that will constraint the 'spirt' of La Mèche," comments editor in chief Olivier Marbot. Staff members contributing to the journal worked for free on the debut edition to gauge how well the paper would be received by the public. Roughly 90,000 copies of the weekly paper will be released for circulation.

Alexis Remangaï, journalist for Le Confident, was arrested for libel in the Central African Republic. Remangaï claimed that Obed Namsio, director of the country's mines, had embezzled over 30,000 euros. Le Confident published Remangaï article on August 30, and he was arrested for the content last Friday and remains in prison.

Les Echos, an economic French daily, is changing its business model in reaction to the paper's loss of revenue. The paper lost between 5 to 10 million euros in 2009, and circulation dropped 1.49% during the first half of 2010. In effect, Les Echos is taking cues from some English-launguage publications who cover similar content. Les Echos launched an iPad application that is modeled after the Wall Street Journal's app. Following the Financial Time's "Short views" video series on their website, Les Echos has uploaded its own video commentary called "Court terme." The French economic publication has put 80% of its articles behind a paywall. By the end of the year, Les Echos hopes to have over 50,000 registered online and mobile users.

The Telegraph's relaunched fashion site focuses on glamour and e-commerce

Posted by Emma Heald on September 6, 2010 at 6:11 PM

The Telegraph has launched a dedicated fashion and beauty website, which combines fashion news with e-commerce, with abundant options to purchase through the site.

Brand Republic's Marketing Magazine reported in June that this fashion section relaunch is "one of the first major initiatives" undertaken by Telegraph Media Group's digital unit, now called Digital Futures. This team worked in conjunction with the fashion and beauty editorial team and design firm Made by Many.

According to Made by Many, the fashion channel is the Telegraph's most commercially successful, but it faces competition from online-only magazines and social shopping sites, as well as online-only stores and therefore decided a relaunch was necessary to tackle this and enhance its appeal.

Content farms: what's in it for journalists?

Posted by Dawn Osakue on September 6, 2010 at 5:28 PM

"Are content farms worth it to journalists? Will more content providers in the future be based on the content-farm strategy?" These are the questions Ellie Behling tries to answer on eMedia Vitals.

Famous for their attention to topics deemed attractive to Internet users, content farms have been continously criticized for their low quality articles. However, these articles remain high in demand and therefore relatively profitable, leading to some speculation on whether content farms are pushing traditional news sites out of the scene.

Digital selection: a threat or an attribute to journalism?

Posted by Stefanie Chernow on September 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM

Before the Internet, if newspapers wanted to know who was reading what, they had to rely on intuition and unreliable reader surveys, reports the New York Times. This ignorance of consumers' taste allowed newspapers to blissfully cover the stories that were important without an afterthought of who would be actually reading the content: once a reader had bought the paper, who knows what they actually read. Now, with technologies that track what people actually consume, editors are more aware of which articles get the most hits and what content sparks the interest of readers. These new methods of surveying readers befits the economics of the newspaper industry, but will papers become too self conscious of their readers' judgements and stop covering important stories?

Advanced technology means that newspapers can track the number of unique visits and popular key words. Newspapers are also fascinated by utilizing social media to get feedback on which articles circulate on Facebook and Twitter. The LA Times provides a personalized quiz on their website, which asks viewers several questions about their interests. The answers are complied to generate a personalized homepage for the reader, promoting columns and blogs that the users will be likely to read.

Survey: Scots are loyal newspaper readers

Posted by Emma Heald on September 6, 2010 at 10:29 AM

Seven out of 10 Scots continue to read newspapers, either on print or digital, at least three to four times a week, a telephone survey conducted by Ipsos MORI Scotland, also called the Scottish Public Opinion Monitor, has revealed, AllMediaScotland.com reported yesterday.

While the affluence of area in which people live does not affect newspaper readership, the supposed disinterest of young readers towards newspaper content has been overstated, according to AllMediaScotland.com. Despite lower income households being more likely to have less or no Internet access, 70 percent of low income residents reported reading newspaper content regularly. This is almost equal to the 73 percent in the country's most affluent areas.

For more on this story please see our sister publication www.sfnblog.com

News Games aim to increase newspaper viability

Posted by Dawn Osakue on September 3, 2010 at 3:51 PM

"What lies at the intersection of journalism and videogames?" News Games, Georgia Tech's current research, plans on answering that question. According to its website, News Games "seeks to understand the ways videogames can be used in the field of journalism, providing examples, theoretical approaches, speculative ideas, and practical advice about the past, present, and future of games and journalism."

The concept of linking journalism to games is definitely not a new one. Puzzles, particularly the crossword and Sudoko already serve as a source of attraction for a good number of newspaper readers. The availability of internet game portals though, has weakened this traditional daily bond between the game-seeking reader and the newspaper. "The online news media require a new form of game, one that draws from the accessibility of arcade games and the capability of videogames to present an editorial opinion," Ian Bogost stated on Idea Lab.

Fwix: somewhere between Patch and Google Places

Posted by Stefanie Chernow on September 3, 2010 at 3:28 PM

Following Patch's development of its hyperlocal business model, Fwix is coming forward with its new automated hyperlocal service. Marketwire reports Fwix released its Places Pages, which will make for the ultimate hyperlocal places directory. People can upload information in real time pertaining to news, events, reviews, and more using geo-tagging technology. "We want to build a timeline of what's happening for every geo-point on the planet," said Darian Shirazi, CEO of Fwix. "This is really the first four-dimensional view of the world and, combined with our search technology, we believe we've built the ultimate hyperlocal product."

Originally, the concept of Fwix, created in 2008, was straightforward; aggregate news, blogs, and local data such as the weather. Since then the San Francisco- based company has grown, ranging from launching its services in the UK to partnering with the New York Times. Shirazi has always believed in the worth of aggregated news, stating back in April to The Wall Street Journal "The true value to news in the future will be filtration of content and using technology to ensure that published news speaks well to user preferences and reader expectations. There aren't enough editors in the world and there isn't enough money to pay hundreds of editors to filter the growing online content universe." With Places Pages, Fwix is further able to aggregate information that appeals to its reader's expectations.

Albalad: Mayotte's new (and only) publication

Posted by Stefanie Chernow on September 3, 2010 at 1:37 PM

Albalad was launched in Mayotte as the first newspaper to be published on the island, reports Temoignages. The new endeavor will publish 5,000 copies of the Alband, which will consist of twenty-four pages of content that includes local and international news, sports, announcements, etc. The new paper will employes 50 staff members and will be published daily.

Albalad is owned by Al Waseet International, a branch organization of France du Groupe. Richard Vincent was named editor-in-chief of Mayotte's publication. Vincent comments how thrilled he is that AWI decided to publish the paper in Mayotte rather than develop the Albalad in France. "We wanted to provide a new product that was made for the people of Mayotte," Vincent asserts. Mayotte's first publication is very much a "for the people, by the people" newspaper.

The Deseret Example: is less the new more for newspapers?

Posted by Dawn Osakue on September 3, 2010 at 1:34 PM

As slashing back on staff number becomes the latest mode of restructuring, it would seem publishers are being tempted by 'less is better.' According to Ken Doctor's Newsonomics on Niemann Journalism Lab, less is only better if newspapers are innovative.

The Deseret Morning News for example, recently reduced its staff by 43%. By combining its newspaper with its TV and radio houses though, Deseret Management Co hopes not to experience the negative aspects of a reduced workforce. CEO Clark Gilbert was even optimistic enough to state that Deseret News now has "access to more journalists, hyperlocal contributors, national sports figures than ever before."

Media Links of the day

Posted by Stefanie Chernow on September 2, 2010 at 6:00 PM

Pem Charnley from The Guardian responds to an article written about a journalist who gave a homeless person a credit card to track their spending habits. Investigative journalism, or just distasteful reading material?

No news is not good news; good news is good news. Bridlington Free Press has a "good news" page on their website to aggregate all their positive stories.

Boston.com is extending its real estate coverage to the iPhone.

How good are your headlines? CopyBlogger gives your headlines the "breath test."

The code name for News Corp's application-only newspaper is The Daily Planet. Does this make Murdoch Superman?

Washington Post to create iPad app

Posted by Dawn Osakue on September 2, 2010 at 5:39 PM

Already present on mobile platforms (with a WAP site, text alerts and iPhone apps), The Washington Post has decided to go all the way by creating an application for Apple's iPad, Michael Calderone reports on The Upshot.

"Mobile continues to be a key distribution platform for our content, utility for our readers, and, a core enabler of our growing digital business," Calderone quotes GM Ken Babby as having written in an email to The Post staff. He also informed them that "usage of the Post's iPhone app continues to accelerate."

AP outlines standards for credit and attribution

Posted by Dawn Osakue on September 2, 2010 at 11:40 AM

Associated Press senior managing editor Michael Oreskes has announced "a new set of guidelines for credit and attribution to the AP staff." The new guidelines are a reminder to AP reporters on the importance of "attributing to other organizations information that we haven't independently reported," and "giving credit to another organization that broke a story first, even when we match it - or advance it - through our own reporting," he said in a press release.

According to Oreskes, the web has made the need for reliability absolutely essential. It is therefore "more important than ever that we be consistent and transparent in our handling of information that originated elsewhere than our own reporting," he wrote.

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