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To survive online, try calendars, video, and stringers

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 25, 2007 at 2:42 PM
Robin Miller, Editor in Chief for Open Source Technology Group, suggests that newspapers looking to increase their online presence should add calendars, online video, and blogs to their web sites.
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UK: Independent titles to go full-color

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 25, 2007 at 11:57 AM
Trinity Mirror, publisher of The Independent, announced on July 25 that it will invest £23 million in color-printing equipment for its papers.
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UK: Western Daily Press coordinates appeal to aid flood victims

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 25, 2007 at 11:13 AM
Bristol’s The Western Daily Press has organized an in-paper and online appeal to help families affected by flooding in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. 
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US: CNN/YouTube debates and their implications for Politics 2.0

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 25, 2007 at 10:55 AM
The CNN/YouTube Debates raised a few eyebrows for their mix of irreverence, humor, and policy, but Matthew Yglesias of The Guardian wonders if they were as markedly different from traditional face-offs and as historic as CNN originally billed them.
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UK: Mirror journalists arrested for testing railway security with fake bomb

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 25, 2007 at 9:57 AM
On July 24, London railway staff apprehended two journalists from The Daily Mirror, apparently trying to plant a fake bomb on the subway lines.
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US: Blogger to be top online editor at San Francisco Chronicle

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 25, 2007 at 9:44 AM
Following a series of recent changes and job cuts at The San Francisco Chronicle, former blogger and public relations professional Eve Batey has been named as the paper’s new online editor.
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US: Weekly World News to close

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 25, 2007 at 9:28 AM
American Media announced earlier this week that it will be suspending its tabloid publication The Weekly World News at the beginning of August 2007.
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France: Pearson to protect Les Echos’ jobs, editorial independence

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 24, 2007 at 2:28 PM
On July 23, Pearson announced measures to protect jobs and editorial independence at the French financial paper Les Echos, should it be sold to luxury good producer, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessey.
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UK: ABC will not integrate online and print figures

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 24, 2007 at 1:46 PM
According to chief executive Chris Boyd, the British Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) will not report combined figures for print and online readership.
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Tamedia and Editpress to collaborate on new daily in Luxembourg

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 24, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Tamedia EG and Editpress have announced a plan to jointly launch a new daily in Luxembourg by the end of 2007.
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US: Newspapers traffic growing twice as fast as general traffic online

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 24, 2007 at 11:41 AM
In the second quarter of 2006, over 59 million people on average visited newspaper websites, representing 37% of all active Internet users and a 7.7% increase from the same period in 2006.
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UK: Should news sites display Press Complaints Commission logo?

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 24, 2007 at 11:00 AM
In an effort to restore and increase trust in British news sites, Tim Toulmin, director of the Press Complaints Commission encouraged newspapers to display the PCC logo on their websites to indicate their adherence to a self-regulatory system in journalism.
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US: Sacramento Bee to launch video “letters to the Editor”

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 24, 2007 at 10:44 AM
In what appears to be an industry first, The Sacramento Bee has announced plans to solicit and post video letters to the Editor from readers on its website.
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US: Study finds that news media transparency linked to credibility

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 24, 2007 at 10:08 AM

A recent study of 25 of the world’s top news outlets revealed that most lack the necessary transparency to develop readers’ trust and a sense of credibility.

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Canada: Newspapers launch mobile sites

Posted by Mica Swyers on July 24, 2007 at 9:39 AM
Gesca has launched new mobile phone sites for three of its major titles, La Presse Affaires, Cyberpresse, and Technaute.
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