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"The possibilities of print have just begun," David Granger, Esquire's editor in chief, recently commented to The New York Times.

"Magazines have basically looked the same for 150 years," Granger said. "I have been frustrated with the lack of forward movement in the magazine industry."

Esquire has attempted to buck that trend and to celebrate its 75th year, has designed an electronic cover that will flash "the 21st Century Begins Now," when it appears on newsstands in September.

On its own, the magazine will run for 90 days by a battery small enough to fit inside the cover. "Mr. Granger knows some will see the cover as a gimmick -- but he says he thinks the technology behind it, which has been used for supermarket displays but never embedded in a magazine, speaks to the possibilities of print," reported NYT.

E Ink, a Cambridge, Mass. based company, designed the cover. The company has also worked on Amazon.com's e-book device, Kindle.

"The interesting thing," said Peter Griffin, the deputy editor, "is it has almost nothing to do with the normal way of putting out a magazine."

"We are trying to combine a 21st-century technology with a 19th-century manufacturing process," Granger said.

Esquire first hired an engineer in China to develop a battery small enough to be inserted in the magazine cover. The batteries and the display case are manufactured and put together in China.

The project was expensive, so Esquire found a sponsor - Ford Motor - who will have an advertisement on the inside of the cover that employing the same technology to promote its new SUV, the Flex.

Esquire has acquired exclusive use of E Ink's technology through 2009, and according to NYT, "Mr. Granger said he hopes to come up with new ideas for it. 'This is probably just a limited view of its use,' he said."

Granger is optimistic about the potential trajectory. "In two years, I hope this looks like cellphones did in 1982, or car phones."

Source: The New York Times

Telegraph Media Group has integrated the news desks of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph; reporters will also write for their website, Telegraph.co.uk.

"We have a huge pool of talented journalists at TMG," said Ian MacGregor, the Sunday Telegraph editor. "They now have the opportunity to play a part across all three publications, as we combine the force of our news desks to deliver first-rate stories, both for our leading website and distinguished newspaper titles."

Special reporters from the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph will collaborate on breaking news and analysis; however, TMG said both papers would retain separate reporting teams and identities.

Several recent changes at TMG have foreshadowed the merger. Last month the science desks of both papers and the website were combined. In April, new positions were created which cover all titles: Adrian Michaels was appointed to the new post of foreign operations to run TMG's world news output and Iain Martin was also hired as head of comment and community. And just nine months ago, Patience Wheatcroft resigned as editor of the Sunday Telegraph, who according to the Guardian had reputedly "been under pressure to integrate the Sunday title and its reporters with sister paper the Daily Telegraph's seven-day multimedia news operation."

Reportr.net interviewed Chris Lloyd, assistant managing editor of Telegraph Media Group, about the integration process in April.

Integrating newsrooms has been a growing trend since 2005, when The New York Times merged print and web news desks.

Source: Guardian.co.uk

The Local Media Group has published eight issues of the Burton Local News, a new monthly free newspaper in Staffordshire, and is planning on launching more editions due to the paper's success.

The exact locations for the new papers is unknown, but Doug Price, who co-owns Local Media Group with Kevin Curtis, revealed that "the five-year business plan could see a total of ten new monthly titles."

The title had an initial print run of 33,000 copies, but it has now increased by 2,000 copies because of its popularity. Readers are also able to download an electronic version of the paper on Burton Local News' website.

Price and Curtis began the Local Media Group last year when they decided to combine their experiences at local newspapers for a new business venture. The Burton Local News is produced by a team of ten in Derby, but receives its content from local councils, the police, freelancers, and volunteer photographers and writers in the town.

"It's all voluntary and freelance which keeps cost down," says Price. "But we would never carry any overtly political stuff or spin - and we're not trying to rival the Burton Mail or Burton Trader."

Source: Hold the Front Page

Starting today Feb. 21, newspapers publishers in the UK can report their print circulation and website unique users in a single monthly report.

The Audit Bureau of Circulation will start publishing its first combined readership reports, which will combine data that was previously divided according to the platform.

According to journalism.co.uk, the new reports will cover the January circulations and unique user figures of Daily Mail and Sunday Mail, the Guardian and Observer, The Sun and News of the World, the Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, and the Times and Sunday Times.

The new reports will help newspapers sell their overall reach to advertisers.

Source: Journalism.co.uk

The San Francisco Chronicle trims it Monday and Tuesday editions of the paper as editor Ward Bushee continues his trend of shrinking big papers like the Arizona Republic, months before.

Several Chronicle reporters explained that Bushee stated that management had decided to combine several sections that run on Monday and Tuesday—among them, the business and sports sections as well as the classifieds and the Datebook. The new, slimmed down edition is set to debut on Mon. Feb. 25.

Bushee executed a similar plan during his tenure as editor at the Republic. The shrinkage of the paper’s Monday edition was presented to readers as an effort to cater to busy readers’ presumably busy Monday schedules, reported the Phoenix New Times website. Loyal readers saw through the rhetoric and recognized the underlying cost-cutting motives. Some were even offended Bushee and the paper’s management claimed to be acting on behalf of readers’ interests—saving them time by cutting out entire sections. The 168 letters received in the Republic mailroom on the subject illustrated that readers did not prefer the timesaving, shrunken Monday version.

It is unclear how Chronicle readers will react to the new editions.  While some critics dislike the shrinkage, others recognize the need to cut costs—and perhaps even save newsroom jobs—at the price of trimming down content.

Source: SF Weekly and Phoenix New Times

The owners of the Western Mail, South Wales Echo, Wales on Sunday and the Celtic weekly newspapers announced that there would be about 10 to 17 job cuts in their restructuring.

Audience measurement group ABC will release Audience-FAX on Nov.5, a new methodology that will combine print and online readership, as well as total website activity on ABC reports. Here are some details about audience measurements, which are essential to sell advertising.

The UK’s regional press is taking steps to develop an industry-wide tool to audit combined web and print readership, along with the Newspaper Society.

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.

Roger Fidler, presently Director of Technology Initiatives at the Reynolds Journalism Institute (Columbia, Missouri), has been exploring and engineering the electronic tablet newspaper for over a decade. After years of cautious experimentation and limited interest from the industry, he now sees the breakthrough years approaching. “With the arrival of new generations of eReaders and improved, dedicated software, new ways of journalistic newshandling and distribution are becoming imperative”, he assesses.
This time, that quest should have sufficient critical mass.

Well, the newspaper world could do with a glimpse of hope. And there it came: after all the signals of steady decline, at least in the industrialised world, digital paper finally offers a perspective for innovation and growth of the beleaguered sector. The digital paper technology combines the best of two worlds: the look and feel of the traditional paper and the versatility of the online editions (see 'E-Readers, Background'). The promise it offers is mind boggling: a newspaper era without newsprint, rotation presses and complicated distribution lines: all serious cost factors. The practice however is less convincing. The enabling e-ink technology is around for several years, but its application is still scarce and purely experimental. That is, until now.

The aggressive UK newspaper market has embraced online news, making developments quick to stay ahead of the game. Editors Weblog has spoken to top executives at two quality and two tabloid newspapers to try and garner the key themes and learnings from potentially the most competitive newspaper market in the world.

According to Media Life’s Lisa Snedeker, the main challenge for newspapers right now is not as much plummeting circulation figures as it is “selling the idea that what matters more than circulation data is a newspaper's full readership in a community.” – that is, print circulation combined with web traffic.

News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, in a speech on Feb. 8, reiterated concerns for newspapers’ vulnerability, although he still values their importance. Clearly though, digital operations have supported News Corp. continuous strong results.

The Huffington Post, a successful political website that groups renowned bloggers, hired Melinda Henneberger, former journalist for Newsweek magazine, as its political editor. This wave of transitions from print to online maybe means more about the evolution of journalism than it does about online’s obvious better prospects.

Friday 24^th of November, a good 80 Dutch and Flemish editors and researchers gathered in the European Journalism Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands, to assess and discuss several prototypes of novel newspaper products or services. All are web-based one way or another, and ready for the Web 2.0 publishing environments. The in total six demonstrators feature remote reporting tools, video content based on strategic alliances with non-journalistic partners, e-paper trials and online reader communities. Most were developed in close cooperation with specialised R&D centres. Together, the prototypes reveal the contours of the future electronic newspaper.
Al least half of the demonstrators will make it to real applications, the other are subject to further testing in living lab conditions.
General conclusion of the event: we need further experimentation to capture the essence of digital presence. In the conference report, the applications as well as the editors’ appraisal are described more in detail.

Looking at both Google and Yahoo’s recent connections with traditional print media leaves some questions. Google’s move is understandable since executives have always expressed interest in expanding into print media, but in the wake of Yahoo’s downsizing rumors and low quarterly performance the recent expansion to create partnerships with 176 papers is a bit of a shocking business move.

Publicly realizing on his blog that readers were moving to the Net, a migration that advertisers will eventually follow, 20 Minutos editor Arsenio Escolar announced that his team of editors has been working for several weeks on plans to join the freesheet's print and web operations.