Manila has received its second freesheet, the
Manila Standard Today. The tabloid is distributed in train stations throughout the capital city with plans to spread to distribution to airports, ferry terminals, bus stations, and toll road entry and exit points. The paper is in competition with
Inquirer Libre, which was started in 2001.
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Newspaper Innovation
Bild. T-online is launching their second life newspaper “AvaStar.” The title will be printed in English and will cost 150 Linden dollars, or 42 Euro cents. AvaStar will be 30 pages of News, Business, Celebrity & Gossip, Style & Fashion, Travel and Entertainment stories from within the virtual world.
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PR Newswire
Media analysts are predicting that the number of blogs will level out in 2007 with 100 million blogs. Over 200 million have already stopped writing their blogs.
Modern lifestyles have lead to more media absorption by the public. Based on a report by the US Census, Americans will spend the equivalent to five months, including one week reading newspapers and one week online, absorbing different forms of media, including.
Journal Register Co. is the most recent newspaper publisher to join forces with
Google Print Ads. More than 50 papers, including the
New York Times, the
Boston Globe, the
Washington Post and the
Seattle Times, are already working with Google allowing online advertisers to buy print space as well.
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Market Watch
Former Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet may be heading across the country to take a post at the New York Times. Though no source has confirmed that Baquet is planning work or has been offered a job at the NY Times, media watchers are speculating that it’s a definite possibility.
Telegraph Media Group has developed a social networking service where users will be able to upload content and images to announcement pages hosted on telegraph.co.uk. Also on these pages, people can post comments, leave messages, and write anecdotes. Right now the service is available to people who place marriage, birth and deaths announcements in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, but is likely to spread to other classifieds as well.
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Media Bulletin
The new Capital Hill news site and newspaper, the Politico, plans to begin its coverage with the Presidential State of the Union Address Jan. 23. Following the address, Politico plans to turn its attention towards the 2008 presidential campaign.
In a new study conducted by
Ketchum and the U
niversity of Southern California’s Annenberg Strategic Public Relations Center shows that 68.9% of consumers depend on their local newspapers for information. According to the survey, “what’s clear is that consumers still heavily rely on traditional media for the information they need to make purchasing decisions and to consider issues.”
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followthemedia.com
Reporters Without Borders, working together with the Fondation de France, awarded media’s top press freedom awards to journalist from around the globe. Winners this year came from a range of countries including Myanmar, Cuba, Russian and the Congo.
Jimmy Wales, founder of the user edited encyclopedia Wikipedia and site Wikia.com, plans to offer software, storage and network access for free to website creators who hope to create their own community websites.
Nstein Technologies Inc. has created new data summary software that according to CEO Mario Girard has the potential to revolutionize the newspaper industry. "Nstein is the closest technology to the human brain when it comes to understanding text,” said Girard.
Thanks to the Internet, anyone with a computer can put his or her ideas on a world platform. This has created new citizen power never felt by individuals nor the communities in which they live. For the first time, writers are truly paying attention to what citizens want to read, rejuvenating news in local communities who feel a lack of local coverage from traditional sources. Debbie Galant, a Montclair, New Jersey Local, saw a desire for news in her community that made her decide to try her hand at online reporting. Hoping to fill the local news void in their community Galant and co-founder Liz George started a local news site, Baristanet.com.
The New York Times has added a new service making it easier for users to link and post stories on social news and networking sites Digg, Facebook and Newsvine. Linking buttons were added this morning but will not be available on Time Select articles, newspaper's premium content offering, staff blogs or wire stories.
Media giant Gannett Co. is looking into the possibility of selling its British newspaper unit, Newsquest. The current review, inspired by the darkening market, could lead to Newsquest’s 1.5 billion pounds sale.
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Reuters
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