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Fairfax Digital in Australia just launched a news site targeting youth, which can be found at TheVine.com.au.

The site, a joint venture with youth marketing company Lifelounge, will target 18 to 29 year-olds and offer news, entertainment and social networking content.

Research by both companies have found that the 18 to 29 demographic prefer the Internet over all media, spending over 14 hours per week online.

Fairfax will contribute to a share of the site's content, but Lifelounge will be responsible for hiring, housing and managing TheVine's editorial team.

TheVine will benefit from lifestyle and entertainment content from Fairfax's newspaper websites, including those of the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and Brisbane Times.

Looking to renew ties with young readers? Read this recent piece by Chris McGillion:
- Part 2: 5 key lessons from Generation Y to newspapers

Source: Fairfax Digital - The Australian News through IFRA Executive News Service

       The term 'citizen journalism', which was coined to describe "the effort to encourage regular folk to use the Internet to report the news directly," according to the New York Times, isn't accurate.

Todd Wolfson, 35, one of the organizers of the Media Mobilizing Project in Philadelphia is  "uncomfortable" with the term 'citizen journalism.' "We prefer the term 'community journalism.'"

Wolfson's group and Juntos, an immigrant rights group, are teaching their communities to make video reports for streaming on the Internet. The Knight Foundation in Miami sponsored the classes with a $150,000 grant.

But as Wolfson pointed out, most people involved are neither US citizens, nor even legal residents.

One of the main issues at stake is "the digital divide," according to Wolfson. Poorer communities typically "are only passive receivers of what appears on the Internet," as they often lack the resources for online publishing. Through these video classes, Wolfson plans on creating opportunities for these communities to share their stories as well.

Source: The New York Times through IFRA  Executive News Service

With the official launch of Drupal 6 on Wednesday, news organizations with small budgets have yet another free content management system made available to them.

Collegiate publications and other small organziations may be interested by a free CMS service that allows for customization. "This is great news for news organizations looking for a cheap and flexible CMS option, especially college newspapers," commented blogger Pat Thornton.

Other free open-source CMS include Magnolia, Moddle, TYPO3, etc.

The Onion and The New York Observer are among the sites currently using Drupal.

If you have any experience with CMS or prefer a particular one, please share your thoughts with us.

Source: The Journalism Iconoclast (also here)

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.

The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) has identified eight trends to keep track of in 2008 for news organizations, including audience measurements, hyperlocal coverage, outsourcing and multimedia branding.

The media group India Today, which recently created its digital division India Today Group Digital, is planning on the launch of a web portal to span across media, as well as mobile magazines in early 2008.

A few weeks ago, El Pais underwent a redesign to emphasize its renewed global reach and connect with a younger readership. In this email Q&A, editor-in-chief Javier Moreno explains everything about the paper's relaunch.

As newsrooms worldwide, big and small alike, march towards integrating their print and online operations, newsroom design has become an increasingly significant consideration for editors. In three interviews for the Weblog, editors from the Daily Telegraph, RBS Group and De Volkskrant give their views on the importance of newsroom design, whether it’s more of a detail, a truly pragmatic facilitator of change, or a mirror of conceptual transformation.

A study conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) suggests that, not only is mainstream media content different from content on user-generated websites, but online users may prefer the latter.

For centuries, news in newspapers was restricted to the physical pages of the paper, giving rise to the phrase, "All the news that's fit to print". It is well known that this is no longer true on the Web where there is virtually unlimited space for publication of content. But one Wikipedian went a step further to show how much his favorite encyclopedia actually demonstrates the publishing freedom that the Internet provides.

Newspapers should be prepping up their online video offerings for two good reasons. Firstly, web users are tolerant of video ads, and many of them prefer video as a news medium online. Secondly, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf predicts the demise of traditional TV and the rise of online pre-recorded video.

In an interview with The Motley Fool, Lee Enterprises CEO Mary Junck describes her company’s strategies to fight the decline in print ad revenues, including the Lee Online University. And she doesn’t seem the least bit worried about this decline…

According to a recent Harris Poll of five European nations, the United States, and Australia, 39% of American adults read the newspaper on a daily basis, down from 54% in 2000.  The ease and convenience of online information are the main reasons cited for the drop in daily readership.

TimesofOman.com is the leading English-language news portal in Oman. The print newsroom counts 30 staffers, whereas the online version only counts three. The website, which was re-launched in November 2006, receives on average 80,000 views per day. Cariappa A A, web editor of Times of Oman, explains how such a small team can put up a quality website daily, through efficient time management and adapted content.

A book released today, "News, Improved: How America's Newsrooms Are Learning to Change" written by Tim Porter and Michele McLellan and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, aims to teach newsrooms how to innovate.

Inlandpress.org reports on some useful tips for the growth of newspapers online by creating additional revenue, frequently updating online editions, and knowing newspaper website user statistics.

A study revealed that newspapers are losing ground in schools and education - even their online editions - as teachers prefer to study using international online news sites.

 Every web-based news source must take great care in providing an efficient layout. For two reasons. Studies have shown that, in a general manner, the print-format of newspapers is still more practical than web versions for cursive visual scans and information retention. The second reason is common sense: since traditional newspapers’ readership is migrating to online, it’s even more essential for them to produce a quality online format. So how do you do it? 

In the run-up to the US mid-term elections, many news organizations have been using interactives in their website coverage, and often taking advantage of Flash technology to do it.  Are these graphics effective?  Are they worth all the trouble?  Digital media experts Alberto Cairo, Mindy McAdams and Laura Ruel give their assessment, and offer tips for future news website content producers.

A recent panel of college-age readers at the Online News Association's annual conference last Friday in Washington D.C. sounded off on how they wanted their news.  Bottom line: online, in text, free, and comprehensive.