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English regional newspaper publisher, Newsquest, is rolling out a revamped website.

The Lancashire Telegraph, Telegraph & Argus and The Press have all had the makeover treatment. Further Newsquest sites are expected to launch the new look in the weeks ahead.

The new-look websites have a navigation website that tretches across the top of the screen, bigger banner adverts, live traffic updates, weather reports, and a  'What's On' information on every page. Birthday, marriages and deaths are now altogether in one section titled 'Announcements' and blogs and comments are also paired together.

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk guides readers through some of the major changes.

Source: Holdthefrontpage.co.uk through IFRA Executive News Service

A second daily freesheet will launch in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires: La Mañana will be released August 1 with an initial circulation of 250,000.

Its publisher, Sergio Szpolski, is the owner of several other Spanish-language publications, including the Spanish version of Newsweek and Buenos Aires Economico. La Razon, published by the Clarin group, is the only other freesheet currently available in Buenos Aires.

La Mañana is the latest freesheet to debut in South America. The Brazilian freesheet Destak Rio was recently launched in Rio de Janeiro.

Source: NewspaperInnovation.net through IFRA Executive News Services

Newspapers are making several preparations in anticipation of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, trimming staff and putting increased focus on their online operations.

The Associated Press will provide newspapers with a service called Summer Games Plus, made possible by a deal with NBC that allows the AP to publish NBC-produced context.

According to New York Times Sports Editor Tom Jolly, the Times will utilize the AP's service "because we wanted the ability to fully cover things like lead-up events, lesser events we might not staff, and mostly agate events."
 
The Tribune Company's papers, which include the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Baltimore Sun, will share reporters to provide the widest range of coverage.

The Boston Globe is among the papers sharpening its web coverage. According to sports editor Joe Sullivan, the paper is bringing "a full-time multimedia person...in charge solely of producing products for the Web."

The Globe will also bring a Chinese reporter "to help with the language and cultural stuff."

Check out some past coverage of the Beijing Olympics:

Human Rights Watch Guide for Reporting
BBC Coverage
Journalists Manage Expectations

Source: Editor and  Publisher

Dave Stancliffe, a columnist at The Eureka Reporter in the USA, has published a unilateral condemnation of outsourcing. He asks: where do we draw the line with outsourcing?

Outsourcing may begin with ad production and layout, but where will the financiers look to next in their drive for efficiency? Is this the beginning of a wholesale move in search of cheaper labour, or is it a one-off reaction to a competitive market?

"I dread to see what will be outsourced next. Newspaper editors perhaps? Somewhere along the line we're losing more than just jobs," writes Stancliffe, citing issues of diminishing public trust if their local papers are edited overseas.

This is a serious question, especially for local newspapers. Pulitzer Prize-winning local newspaper, The Orange County Register, outsourced its copy editing and page design function to India after struggling with falling ad revenues. As Stancliffe writes, "The writing was on the wall in 2006 when they started offering a voluntary severance program."

If a paper is being copy-edited in another country, can it really still be called a "local newspaper"?

However, the wholesale relocation of newspapers to India or any other country is still unlikely. Most newspaper owners are well aware that to provide news to their communities they have to be a part of those communities. Running a newspaper is difficult enough without having to consider time-zone differences when chasing a story.

Early reports on outsourcing indicate that it is not always plane sailing. However, we will have to wait and see how these newspapers fare in their efficiency drive. Maybe this innovation will prove successful.

Source: The Eureka Reporter

As Google gets better at providing more personalized results, the importance of Search Engine Optimization seems to decline, according to new media guru Jeff Jarvis.

SEO and Googlejuice (how far a website ranks in the search) might have been as important as a company's EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) in the past, but that may not be the case today.  

"What does that mean to brands? The world gets confusing once more. But I think it means that true relevance becomes more important than SEO tricks," said Jarvis.

The relationships between brands and people may become more important than spending resources on optimizing the rankings of news stories.

"It also means that the more relationships you have with people -- the more they talk about you and link to you and click on you -- the better off you will be," Jarvis said.

Source: BuzzMachine

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In June, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki dropped the publication of government bid requests in national newspapers. The decision has been a blow to Iraqi papers, particularly independent Arabic-language papers, who receive 40 to 70 percent of their income from government advertising.

Although Iraqi papers also receive revenue from sales and private advertising - mainly from mobile phone companies and agencies distributing American political advertising - these sources of income are dwarfed by government spending.

This is not the first time papers have been victim to the whims of politics. In December 2005, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaffari ordered ministries not buy advertisements from independent papers, however, the orer was later withdrawn.

The new measure by al-Maliki has coincided with the establishment of a new newspaper linked to his Al-Dawa party, Al-Bayan.

Source: Menassat

Last Monday, Katherine Weymouth, the Washington Post's publisher, announced that Marcus W. Brauchli, 47, would be the new top editor of the Post. Mr. Brauchli's former experience at the Wall Street Journal as top editor, with its integrated print and Web newsrooms, might prove valuable for the Post.

Weymouth is the first Post publisher to have direct control of the website. She hopes that Brauchli will help the Post to progress into new media.

According to the New York Times, the Post is undergoing budget cuts, job cuts, ad revenue reduction and circulation decrease.

In 2007, Brauchli resigned following News Corp.'s buyout of the Journal, lead by Rupert Murdoch, after which Robert Thompson replaced him.

In the last 8 years, the Post's circulation dropped from 800,000 to 673,000. Even though its website draws over nine million unique users per month, the paper hasn't been able to transfer the traffic into revenue. The Post's profit has declined from $14.9 million last year to $1.2 million.

Source: The New York Times

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This week, the Omaha World-Herald - the largest employee-owned news publisher in the United States - will replace "production silos" with an integrated approach to production for its morning and evening print papers and www.omaha.com.

The Wolrd-Herald has selected Saxotech Mediaware Center to facilitate its integration for more than 200 staff members.

The Omaha paper is only the latest to integrate print and online production. Last month, the Guardian announced plans to integrate web and print; also in May, the LA Times created a new "Visual Journalism" department, to merge their print and web photo desks.

Source: Editor & Publisher

The Sunday Times unveiled its new design, which includes colour-coded content, increased colour usage, minimal changes in the basic architecture and typeface alterations.



The Times' move to a different printing plant has brought on a change in the use of colour, editor John Witherow said. Not only are the paper's sections colour-coded, colours are used to distinguish different types of reporting (i.e. the Comment section in green, news stories in blue and special reports in red).  

"For the first time in its 186-year history, every page of every section of this newspaper can now be published in colour. It was these new presses that prompted a comprehensive review of how we produce and present the paper, and the design you see today is the result. We were keen to use colour to maximum effect without going over the top," Witherow said.

Although there have been changes to the structure of the paper, such as moving The Weather section and India Knight's column or expanding the Comment section, the basic blueprint of the paper remains the same.

 "We have brought in much that is new, but not at the expense of the old," Witherow said.

Source: The Sunday Times

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

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On July 13, the free San Francisco Examiner plans to publish, for the first time, its redesigned Sunday edition.

"Consumers and advertisers alike confirm the significant value provided by our subscription-free newspapers and the Examiners' strong emphasis on local news," said Ryan McKibben, Clarity Media Group CEO, in May.

The edition will feature a review of weekly news, as well as local news that will include expanded features like opinion and environmental focus.

"It's no secret that this is a very difficult period for our industry. But it's actually an exciting time when one has the necessary talent and is sufficiently nimble and innovative -- to effectively meet the demands of rapidly changing markets," McKibben said.

The last Weekend edition of the Examiner was printed last Saturday.

Source: The San Francisco Examiner, Editor and Publisher

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Newspaper companies have been successful in generating audience and attention with their digital platforms. But the Holy Grail for newspaper companies is how to produce significant revenues online.

Companies that have had success in making money from the web -- from citizen journalism, cross-media advertising, web TV, mobile and other digital strategies -- will be featured in the World Digital Publishing Conference & Expo, to be held in Amsterdam on 15 and 16 October.

Speakers at the World Association of Newspapers event will include Caroline Little, CEO of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Manual Mirat, CEO of Prisacom in Spain, Eric Scherer, Business Development Director of Agence France Presse's Olympics coverage, Jorma Harkonen, Director of Bonnier's MTV3 mobile strategy in Finland, and many others.

Full details of the event, which will be held back-to-back with WAN's annual Readership Conference & Expo, can be found here.

Stephen Glover of the Independent does not deny newspapers' bleak economic condition, but believes the industry is "not as troubled" as some think it to be.

Glover opens with a stream of negative information concerning newspapers: plummeting profits, battered circulation numbers, and increased layoffs. He says, however, these numbers are more fairly attributed to cyclical economic conditions rather than to the decline of the newspaper.

"No one could deny that there are problems ahead but my message is that the whole picture for newspapers is not as dire as fevered minds in the City appear to believe," Glover writes.

As proof Glover offers examples of several newspaper organizations experiencing financial success, such as News International and Pearson. These organizations, he says, "should not be tarred with the same brush."

And though Glover admits some papers "have structural problems", he insists investors are overreacting.
 
"The sudden level of panic is hardly justified," he writes.

Source: The Independent

By Labour Day, the Los Angeles Times expects to have cut 250 jobs, including 150 of the 876 print and Web editorial positions, as well as decrease the number pf pages published weekly by 15 %, Editor and Publisher reported.

"Thanks to the Internet, we have more readers for our great journalism than at any time in our history. But also thanks to the Internet, our advertisers have more choices, and we have less money," said Russ Stanton, Times editor.

David Hiller, Times publisher, said that the paper is aiming to get where it "needs to be for the long term", at a size that is "sustainable."

This tendency towards shorter papers and less staff in order to adapt to economic realities has been seen all over the US newspaper industry, including within papers like the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant.

Source: Editor and Publisher

See also:

US: More newspaper job layoffs
US: LA Times  publisher looks towards future, promises changes

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LA Times to cut 250 jobs

Yet another step towards digitalization of newspapers is taken as Readex, a division of Newsbank Inc. partnered up with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to create a large, searchable digital archive of international newspapers held by CRL and other major newspaper storehouses, Information Today Inc. reported.

Amongst foreign newspapers to be offered digitally are 35 Latin American (such as Brazilian, Argentinean or Cuban) titles from 1805-1922. Others include historical papers from Africa and South Asia.  

American historical papers like Early American Newspapers and Hispanic American Newspapers may be cross-searched on the World Newspaper Archive.  

CRL participants such as Harvard University, University of Texas and University of Washington have permanent access to the <