Posted by John Burke on October 23, 2007 at 5:04 PM
Businessmen in Manchester will soon have their own regional publication focusing on regional business news. Publisher Crain Communications has published a 24-page dummy issue to lure advertisers and give potential readers a taste of what's to come.
Posted by John Burke on October 23, 2007 at 4:35 PM
Although it has been denied by the Telegraph Media Group, it has been speculated that the group's Sunday paper staff could join the daily staff, effectively making the titles one. The latest resignation from the daily rekindled the rumors.
Posted by John Burke on October 23, 2007 at 3:30 PM
This week, the "world's first Internet television network,
ManiaTV, closed its doors to user generated content (UGC). Could it be because UGC just can't compete with professional content? What can newspapers learn?
Posted by John Burke on October 23, 2007 at 2:30 PM
It may be the web's most popular phenomenon, but are huge social networks like Facebook all the surrounding hype makes them out to be? According to investors, probably not. But according to this newspaper blog, local is a rife opportunity when it comes to social networks.
Posted by John Burke on October 23, 2007 at 1:35 PM
For nearly 20 years, the weekly
The Onion has been satirizing the world’s events and the banalities of modern life. The paper is so respected amongst its loyal following that it now prints 710,000 copies per edition, more than the 9th largest paper in America. What’s the secret to the free weekly's success? Can general interest dailies take a cue?
Posted by John Burke on October 22, 2007 at 4:55 PM
Publicitas reports that the German daily Die Welt has begun publishing a new layout as of today, including design changes in its compact edition, Welt Kompakt. For images of the new, fresh design, click on the link below.
Source: Publicitas
Posted by John Burke on October 22, 2007 at 4:43 PM
An English-language weekly backed by the Flemish International Relations Minister, Geert Bourgeois, has been launched in Belgium. The publication entitled Flanders Today will be produced by an independent team of journalists and will distribute 20,000 free copies per edition.
Posted by John Burke on October 22, 2007 at 3:05 PM
Last week, as the official takeover date of Dow Jones by News Corporation approaches, news was published that showed News Corp head Rupert Murdoch may be broadening coverage in DJ's Wall Street Journal flagship to compete more directly with the New York Times, if not the entire American newspaper market.
Posted by John Burke on October 22, 2007 at 1:08 PM
Blogs are making millions. Most probably would not have guessed that four years ago. But a few blogs focusing on a niche topic with minimal staff are earning their founders well over seven-figures based mostly on topic-specific Internet advertising. How are newspapers to compete with these specialized competences and targeted advertising?
Posted by John Burke on October 22, 2007 at 12:15 PM
The Naples News in Florida is often hailed as one of the United States' most forward-looking papers. With a newsroom that works first for its website, then the paper edition, and a daily local-news webcast which is also broadcast on television, it could even be said that the Naples News is one of the first papers to not consider itself just a newspaper. Editor Phil Lewis recently wrote an editorial documenting the evolution of the paper.
Posted by John Burke on October 19, 2007 at 9:53 AM
This week, the Trinty Mirror group announced that it would be experimenting with a crowd-sourcing project called "Making the News". The project will be tested at one of Trinity's local papers, the Liverpool Daily Post, and will focus on different subjects.
Posted by John Burke on October 18, 2007 at 11:26 AM
Press Gazette reports that a trade association has been set up for editorial designers.
The Editorial Design Organisation will represent the growing field of news design and graphics.
Posted by John Burke on October 18, 2007 at 10:55 AM
After freeing up some of its current articles and launching
audio versions of its editions, the venerable British weekly,
The Economist, is poised to put it's content dating from 1843 online in
The Economist Historical Archive. The move follows other papers such as the
New York Times and
the Guardian.
Posted by John Burke on October 18, 2007 at 9:06 AM
The Swedish paper Svenska Dagbladet recently spoke with Anne Spackman, editor-in-chief of the Times of London, about a new job in her newsroom, the "Search Editor", charged with teaching the newsroom staff about how people surf the Web and how to maximize their content's potential of being found by search engine spiders (Search Engine Optimization (SEO)). The job description is logical. But it should be a requirement for all newsroom staff.
Posted by John Burke on October 17, 2007 at 10:25 AM
The theme of this year's
World Digital Publishing Conference is the Digital Revenue Revolution.
Leon Levitt, Vice President of Digital Media at
Cox Newspapers spoke about his company's experience adapting to the changing media landscape.
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