• March 14.2008

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The downside of citizen journalism

Posted by Evan Fell on December 14, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Citizen journalism has become much more popular lately, with the rise of the CNN YouTube debate, political blogs, cell phone video.
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Fairfax Media unveils new headquarters

Posted by Evan Fell on December 14, 2007 at 11:27 AM
Fairfax Media has just unveiled the design of its new $110-million headquarters, which will house The Age, 3AW radio, Fairfax Digital and the Melbourne bureaus of the Australian Financial Review and Business Review Weekly.
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UK: Independent to relaunch Website

Posted by Evan Fell on December 14, 2007 at 10:56 AM
The Independent's Website is to relaunch soon, with new features including improved search, navigation and more video.
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Newspapers must be available to all people, on all platforms

Posted by Evan Fell on December 14, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Many newspapers have given up on attracting young readers who have moved on to other platforms, instead of moving the newspaper with the young to those new platforms.
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UK: Mail on Sunday to relaunch next year

Posted by Evan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 4:50 PM
The Mail on Sunday plans to split into two main sections in the New Year in time for full color production.

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BBC relaunches iPlayer

Posted by Evan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 4:36 PM
The BBC has relaunched the iPlayer on-demand programming service today as a more user-friendly offering available to Mac users for the first time.
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Evergreen content does have an upside

Posted by Evan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 3:29 PM
“Evergreen” describes the stories reporters have to do to fill the paper during holidays, when most everyone else is off and the news is slow. Doing evergreen stories usually causes journalists to groan.
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Newspaper industry is ‘overly pessimistic’

Posted by Evan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 1:42 PM
Credit Suisse analyst John Klim has recently produced a report on the newspaper industry that explains things are not as bad as they seem to be. He made the point that the industry downturn is more cyclical than secular, having more to do with economic factors, like real estate softness, than anything inherent to the industry.
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Reuters to supply FT.com with news video

Posted by Evan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 1:19 PM
The Reuters news agency, after just having made a deal with the International Herald Tribune to produce a co-branded online/print business news section for the newspaper, has now partnered with FT.com to supply the financial news website with videos.

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Business Week Integrates

Posted by Evan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 1:12 PM
Business Week has decided to integrate, just a few months after their announcement of a redesign,  putting one editor in charge of print and online for each of eight major content areas.
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Swedish daily launches world's first "newspaper" telephone

Posted by Evan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 1:00 PM
The Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter has announced the launch of the world's first "newspaper" telephone. The company has created a mobile phone offering the newspaper's subscribers direct and free access to its website.
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Blogger poses with gun to counter bias claims

Posted by Evan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Newspaper political blogs are becoming more and more popular these days, causing bloggers to have to answer to critics and allegations of bias on a daily basis.
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Is there a place for user comments in breaking news stories?

Posted by Evan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 11:58 AM
User comments are becoming more and more popular on online news sites. Even the NY Times is now allowing moderated comments on selected articles. However, do these comments have a place in controversial breaking news stories?
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US: Newspapers develop online graphics for ’08 elections

Posted by Evan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 10:54 AM
U.S. newspapers are now offering some remarkable online graphic tools to help their readers get an overview of the campaign for the 2008 presidential elections.
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Copyright legislation for digital media

Posted by Evan Fell on December 12, 2007 at 4:45 PM
“The role of the journalist is key in bringing trusted information to readers… Print media is going to be the most trusted media in the future,” said information society commissioner Viviane Reding at the recent annual Publishers' Forum in Brussels, where publishers exchanged views with the European Commission.
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