Results matching “italy one in th”

South Italian daily newspaper La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, which has been published since 1887, announces a redesign that will transform the title into a tabloid that will be entirely in color.

After Viacom and France's TF1, Italy's MediaSet is reportedly also filing suit against YouTube for illegal video and audio uploads. Mediaset is seeking at least $800 million. Spain's Telecinco (owned by MediaSet) has previously sued the video site.

YouTube sent a press release to Reuters, which states: "We respect copyright".

According to Bloomberg, at least 4643 MediaSet videos (which is equal to 325 hours) have been illegally used on YouTube. MediaSet said that they have lost "the equivalent of 315.672 broadcasting days."

Moreover, Italian Prosecutors said that Google will be charged for broadcasting a video of an autistic child being taunted by classmates. Google is the parent company of YouTube.

Source: paidcontent.org

New data released from Nielsen Mobile, in the "The Worldwide State of the Mobile Web" report, indicates that adoption of the mobile web has reached a critical mass and can now support "large-scale mobile marketing efforts."  

According to Nielsen, as of May 2008, 15.6 percent of US mobile subscribers regularly use the internet on their mobile device - reaching a total of 40 million users. (In all, some 95 million US subscribers pay for access to the mobile internet, but the 40 million are regular users.)

The UK and Italy followed the US, with 12.9 percent and 11.9 percent respectively, of subscribers going online from a mobile device.

It's interesting that while the US leads in overall mobile internet usage (of total users), other nations are now using mobile devices as the primary mechanism for getting online. According to Ars Technica, "In Russia, Brazil, and India, mobile lines far outnumber landlines, and as those countries continue to flourish, they will become a greater driving force in mobile Internet use."

According to the Nielsen report, the most popular things to do online were to go through web portals for mobile sites, followed by e-mail, then weather, news/politics, search, city maps, and sports.

"All of this ads up to a significant marketing opportunity, if companies can learn how to do it right," reported Ars Technica. "Mobile users appear to be lukewarm towards advertising (although Nielsen says that self-reported advertising receptivity tends to be low across all mediums), and due to its more personal nature, could be even more difficult to sell. Still, it could be successful as long as mobile marketing can respect consumer privacy and actually engage users"

For more on mobile internet usage, read our sister SFN blog's post yesterday on reaching teen audiences.

Source: Ars Technica through European Journalism Centre

The growing market for e-paper technology will soon welcome a device with a foldable, flexible display screen, to be released this fall. The Readius' foldable format is predicted to prompt developments in mobile reader screens, the New York Times reported.

"Flexible displays are the crucial enabling technology for a new generation of portable devices that are mobile, but also have compelling user interfaces," said Jennifer Colegrove, analyst for iSuppli Corporation, a Californian market research company.



The Readius is geared towards reading books, newspapers, magazines and e-mail on a 5-inch diagonal screen that can be folded and reduced to a pocket size.

Karl McGoldrick, CEO of Polymer Vision, the Dutch company that developed the Readius, said that although it displays only shades of gray, its "active matrix" technology might be developed to include colour and videos.

The Readius will come out in this fall in England, Italy and Germany, and in early 2009 in the United States. According to many analysts, the market for e-paper will really begin to boom in 2009.

(For more information about the functions of the Readius, see more about Polymer Vision)

Source: The New York Times through IFRA Executive News Service

See also:
Are we headed for all-electronic papers?
A paperless world?
BusinessWeek review: The Kindle an "imperfect subsititute" for the newspaper
Electronic newspapers nealy ready for release,Kuwata says

In the wake of Tim Russert's death, we are reminded again that in the world of Wikipedia and Web 2.0, breaking news waits for no man.

Following the sudden death of Mr. Russert, the former moderator of "Meet the Press" and the chief of NBC's Washington bureau, NBC chose to withhold the news for over an hour, wanting to first inform Russert's family, who were vacationing in Italy.

"We were not prepared to say anything until all the family had heard," said Allison Gollust, an NBC News spokeswoman. "The last thing we wanted to do was to have the family discover this on the air." Gollust said NBC had asked the other networks to hold back and all agreed.

Russert collapsed from a heart attack in NBC's Washington newsroom around 1:40 p.m. and was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital at 2:23. The official announcement came from NBC's former anchor Tom Brokaw, on air at 3:39.

But almost 40 minutes earlier, the news broke on Wikipedia. Mr. Russert's page was updated at 3:01 p.m. -- adding the date of death and turning present-tense verbs into the past tense. "The entry was particularly influential since many journalists had heard of Mr. Russert's becoming stricken, but did not know the outcome," noted the New York Times. "If some turned to Wikipedia to refresh themselves about Mr. Russert, they found an article that seemed to confirm what many had been hearing."

The IP address of the editor traces to a "junior level" employee at Internet Broadcasting Services in St. Paul, Minn., which contracts Web services to local NBC TV stations. The employee, who posted thinking the information was public record, has since been fired.

Sources: The New York Times, The Daily Online Examiner

According to the European Journalism Centre (EJC), UK journalists are more likely to be blogging and producing videos as part of their job, a European Digital Journalism Study about the effects of the digital age revealed.

The study surveyed 347 journalists from 9 European countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the UK) from regional, national, broadcast and trade media. It was conducted by PR firm Brands2Life and Oriella PR Network, their European partners.

61 % of UK journalists said their publication provided TV or video features, as opposed to 41 % from other European countries.

Over 75 % of UK journalists said the most challenging part about their job was producing "additional multimedia content for the web", EJC reports.

UK journalists are the premier bloggers, since 85 % said their websites had a blogging feature. Only 10 % out of the total and 14 % from the UK said that they had professional media production training.

Source: European Journalism Centre

World Editors Forum - SEVENTH SESSION

With : Gianni Valenti, Deputy Editor, Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy Raju Narisetti, Managing Editor, Mint, India Ignacio Escolar, Editor-in-Chief, Publico, Spain Pierre Haski, Founder and Editor in Chief, Rue89.com, France Dominic Young, Director of Editorial Services, Intellectual Property, News International Ltd, UK Chairman: Roy Greenslade, Media Columnist, The Guardian, UK

More video reports from Sweden

Xavier Vidal-Folch, Deputy Director of the Spanish daily El Pais, has been elected President of the World Editors Forum, the global association for senior newsroom executives within the World Association of Newspapers.

Mr Vidal-Folch was elected by the Board of WEF, meeting in Göteborg, Sweden, on the eve of the annual World Editors Forum conference. He succeeds George Brock, Saturday Editor of The Times of London, who served as WEF President for the last four years.

"It is an honour to be the successor of George Brock," said Mr Vidal-Folch. "Under his presidency, WEF became the voice of editors-in-chief through its Editors Weblog, and the attendance to our annual conference more than tripled.

"My task will be to transform the organisation into a truly digital organisation with more products and services available online. WEF wants to welcome more senior news executives through a new professional online network, useful worldwide, which will become a hub for the entire newspaper industry."

Mr Vidal-Folch has been Deputy Director of El Pais since 1989. He has been with the paper since 1982 and has served as Chief Editor and Brussels Bureau Chief.

Harald Stanghelle, the Political Editor of Aftenposten in Norway, was elected Vice President of WEF.

He has been Political Editor of Aftenposten since 2000. He previously served as News Editor of the paper and as Editor-in-Chief of Dagbladet.

Editors from four countries have been nominated to become new members of the WEF Board: Nadia Al-Saqqaf, Editor-in-Chief of the Yemen Times; Raju Narisetti, Editor of Mint, India; Marcelo Rech, Editor-in-Chief of Zero Hora, Brazil; and Gianni Valenti, Deputy Editor of Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy.

The Paris-based World Editors Forum (http://www.worldeditorsforum.org ) is the organisation of the World Association of Newspapers that represents editors-in-chief and other senior news executives. WAN, the global organisation for the newspaper industry, represents 18,000 newspapers; its membership includes 76 national newspaper associations, newspapers and newspaper executives in 102 countries, 12 news agencies and ten regional and world-wide press groups.

Source: Larry Kilman, Director of Communications, WAN, 7 rue Geoffroy St Hilaire, 75005 Paris France. Tel: +33 1 47 42 85 00. Fax: +33 1 47 42 49 48. Mobile: +33 6 10 28 97 36. E-mail: lkilman@wan.asso.fr

In this short interview with Gianni Valenti, deputy editor of Gazzetta dello Sport, the world's largest 'sports' newspaper and leading daily in Italy, he explains how the paper has balanced its focus on sports with coverage of the protests against China and the Olympic Games in general.

Should sports sections concentrate on the actual events, and leave the rest to the politics desk? Can they really get away without putting sports into context?

As a newspaper focused on sports, Gazzetta dello Sport evidently has vested interest in the upcoming Olympic Games. How have you balanced coverage of sports and of the protests?

Gazzetta dello Sport isn't only a sports newspaper anymore. It's a sports newspaper that includes a general news section. The paper naturally is in favor of the Olympic Games, but it has dedicated entire news pages to the events that took place in Paris when the Olympic torch went through.

For the last six months, many pages have gone to coverage of social, political and environmental issues in China. In preparation for the future, a team of reporters will be dedicated to covering social issues. But the Gazzetta will not make a distinction between sports and social issues and reporters from both desks will collaborate.

Was the Gazzetta's coverage of the protests factual or did the newspaper take a stance?

The paper has special correspondents covering the International Olympic Committee and China. Its coverage remained factual on those aspects and the exactions in Tibet. Regarding the Olympic Torch, the Gazzetta took position, to an extent, arguing that the torch should pursue its route throughout the world. In practice, the Gazzetta did 'equidistant journalism' about the protests, recapping both the pros and cons.

After the events in Paris and London, there was lots of debate online. The Gazzetta created forums to host these discussions, but it didn't advocate a particular political stance for Italy - this was at the time of general elections in Italy.

However, now that the government is in place, and when a real debate will be engaged about whether Berlusconi should go to the Olympic Games or boycott them, then the newspaper will take a side - which is yet to be determined. But I predict that most political leaders will end up going.

How substantial will be Gazzetta Dello Sport's coverage of the Olympic Games?

We will have 23 journalists who will travel there. It will be the biggest coverage the paper has ever given to the Olympic Games, and it will involve collaboration between both print and online.

Source: Gianni Valenti, deputy editor Gazzetta dello Sport

Two profitable Nordic media groups, Schibsted in Norway and SanomaWSOY in Finland, have suffered disappointing results and dropping share prices in the last month. 

The figures are relative; for most publishing groups such figures would be welcomed, but for these particular houses, who are traditionally strong revenue generators, they are disappointing.

In Norway, Schibsted is still suffering losses in its home market due to a rapid shift from print to online. However, although it has faced circulation cuts on papers such as its tabloid Verdens Gang, it has not lost readers. Indeed the website is responsible for more than 30% of Verdens Gang’s revenue.

Schibsted has been affected more by losses in classified advertising, both print and web, from its holdings in Spain, France, and Italy.

In Finland, lower figures were not a result of circulation and advertising drops; rather SanomaWSOY cited increased marketing costs and new product launches at the root of the problem.

Some positive news comes out of Scandinavia as well; Bonnier, a Swedish private international media company, announced in a press release that their sales rose 45% in 2007.

Source: followthemedia

In an email sent by deputy editor Gianni Valenti, he says “it’s been an extraordinary year for the La Gazzetta dello Sport”, the Italian pink-colored sports newspaper. The paper grew its year-on-year circulation by 0.44%, and as much as 5.8% for circulation in November 2007 compared to 2006 (see graphic), thanks to a successful transition towards more general news coverage.

Orange France and VF Italy have both announced their plans to launch mobile podcast services. The Java and Symbian supported services offer an innovative user experience compared to basic Wap-enabled services.

A new survey from the European Interactive Advertising Association says two thirds of Internet users in Europe are ditching other forms of media for online. 62% of the 7,008 people surveyed from the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Belgium in September said that the Internet is their main source of news.

Following a short interview with a member of the Osservatorio Permanente Giovani-Editori: the organization aims to promote newspapers in schools throughout Italy, and collects demographic data through massive surveys , which is then redistributed to partner papers.

On Sep 6, nine well-known documentary photographers are launching Noor, a photo agency targeted toward the international market. And the 2007 Commonwealth Photographic Awards crowned the A