Results matching “matches on your mobile”

The World Association of Newspapers presented its annual World Young Reader
Newspaper of the Year award Thursday (16 October) to the Polish daily Gazeta
Wyborcza for its successful initiatives to attract younger readers in a
country where half the population in under 35.

The newspaper, which received the award at the WAN Readership Conference in
Amsterdam, also won Jury Commendations for two projects: a tie-in for young
readers with the Euro 2008 football matches, and for a campaign that helped
readers protest against Chinese policies in Tibet.

"This is a total 'youth think' newspaper. They do everything right for young
people," said Aralynn McMane, Director of Young Reader Programmes at WAN, in
presenting the award.

Newspaper companies are optimistic about their ability to capture the time and interest of a new generation of readers, no matter what media channel the young prefer, according to a new report from the World Association of Newspapers.

SÜDKURIER, a regional newspaper in southern Germany, is experimenting with new technologies of news-distribution. Apart from the daily newspaper and its Internet platform containing a news ticker, SÜDKURIER offers a news-feed, an E-paper in pdf-format and a daily television program (suedkurier.tv) from 4 pm onwards. The television news is either presented as moving images or with a newscaster reading the information in front of a camera. “We want to be number one in all distribution channels,” says editor-in-chief Thomas Satinsky. Furthermore, SÜDKURIER has developed its own mobile phone news service (SÜDKURIER-Blitz/SK-Blitz) in order to inform its readers on the latest news immediately. The Editors Weblog spoke with Thomas Satinsky about his experience so far with the mobile phone service.

Paul Bradshaw of The Online Journalism Blog (OJB) and creator of the “news diamond,” which rethinks the editorial newsroom process in terms of speed and depth, has now come up with what a 21st century newsroom does after a story is published.

The following is an overview of the US State of the News Media Report’s findings concerning digital journalism. The report defines six key online journalistic qualities that newspapers should be exploiting, and evaluates how well they are currently doing so.

The world's most popular sporting event has rendered rapidly evolving technologies more in demand. Mobile phones, the Internet and interactive TV were all major media for watching the games, although television maintained its position as the preferred screen.

World football’s governing body, FIFA, and the World Association of Newspapers, WAN, today announced that they had reached agreement to lift all restrictions on digital publication of photographs of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

WAN has been negotiating with FIFA for seven months to overturn restrictions made by FIFA to web coverage of the soccer World Cup and ensure the free flow of information concerning the event to the media and by extension the public at large (see previous postings - see sources).
  

T mobile, Deutsche Telekom's mobile division, will broadcast 20 of this summer's World Cup soccer matches so that customers can watch them on their mobile phone handsets. T Mobile customers will pay 2 euros a day or 7.50 euros a month for the service, which will also offer MTV programming.

The World Association of Newspapers and a coalition of the world's leading news agencies today expressed their 'dismay' and 'deep regret' about the decision of FIFA, the international,soccer federation, to abandon talks about the severe restrictions the organization has placed on press coverage of this summer's World Cup, despite the continuing disagreement between the two sides.

Mobile image taking devices for the everyday person, already ubiquitous, have added eye-witness value to newspaper content over the past year, especially during the Asian tsunami, the London bombings and Hurricane Katrina.  But the legalities behind use of citizen material have yet to be defined which is causing a stir at some papers.

The World Association of Newspapers today criticised restrictions imposed by sports events organizers on the use of photographs by newspapers, saying the restrictions "inhibit the free flow of information and the rights of newspapers to practice their profession."

The ongoing row between British newspapers and football authorities seem to have reached a time-out as a compromise has been agreed upon over the weekend. According to Owen Wilson from The Guardian: "Talks between the Newspaper Publishers' Association and the Premier League and the Football League have progressed well, and an agreement in principle has been reached," they said in a joint statement, adding that the current arrangements would remain in place in the meantime." "The newspapers' hand was strengthened last week when the European Court of Justice ruled that the leagues could not charge for the publication of fixture lists and match information", reports Brand Republic's Colin Grimshaw.