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The Orange County Register will outsource copy editing and layout duties to Mindworks, an Indian company, for a one-month trial. Editors at Mindworks will work five times a week on selected editing and layout assignments, and will be overseen by the Register's editors.

"This is a small-scale test, which will not touch our local reporting or decision-making," said Register deputy editor John Fabris.

The Register is not the first newspaper company to outsource work to India; the Sacramento Bee and the Miami Herald have both announced plans similar to the Register's. Amid dropping circulation, outsourcing is becoming an increasingly viable option for newspapers looking to reduce costs - but it can also be a risk for editorial quality.

"In a time of rapid change at newspapers, we are exploring many ways to work efficiently while maintaining quality and improving local coverage," Fabris said.

Click here for more on outsourcing.

Source: Yahoo Finance through I Want Media

On one hand, there's a 2007 report entitled "Hamlet's Blackberry: Why Paper Is Eternal," written by William Powers, media critic for the National Journal. For Powers, all this talk about readers' migration to digital formats isn't taking into account the millennial virtues of "the most successful communications innovation of the last 2000 years."

On the other hand, there's yesterday's editorial in The Guardian, a major news outlet that still heavily relies on the strengths - revenues - of print, that assesses that readers "are starting to migrate in earnest to electronic reading devices, and the interesting thing is that early adopters are surprised at what an agreeable experience it is."

Will we live to see a paperless world? Most unlikely. Are we slowly moving in the general direction of a less-paper world? Definitely - although the demand for paper and newsprint is constantly rising.

Some of the pros and cons for both formats are straightforward: paper is more tangible, more engrained in our habits, and it is still typically easier to manipulate and browse. e-paper is expensive but can be cheaper in the long run, friendlier to the environment, lighter, can network with other devices and carry animated graphics.

According to Powers though, "many of paper's affordances are rooted in its limitations - its physicality, the fact that it can only be in one place, etc." Citing a study by A. Sellen and R. Harper, Powers contends that paper has four 'affordances' that supposedly can't be matched by digital platforms: tangibility, spatial flexibility, tailorability and manipulability.

Traditional paper's overall ease-of-use is undeniable, as it remains and will remain the cheapest and most practical information medium in many regions in the world, for many years to come.

But a quick look at Sony's foray into e-paper (this was more than a year ago!) would tend to show that digital platforms already can - and will - yield some very impressive results, even in the four aforementioned 'affordances'. The developments brought by the i-Phone's touch screen also show how much the public is increasingly embracing the tactile attributes of digital readers.

A paperless world may still be inconceivable to us who've grown thinking through paper. As Powers notes, paper is not only a container for information, it is also essential in defining our relationship to that information, in the way we treat and interpret it (as are all media). The newspaper doesn't only store; it organizes.

But for future generations, for whom the digital screen could be just as common as its 'dead-tree' counterpart, who's to say they won't criticize the warmth of paper, its opaque texture, the fact that it's so easy to scribble upon, to tear apart - the very attributes we have appreciated for two millennia?

The point here is neither to vindicate e-paper, nor does it mean we're moving into a paperless world. Even less to presumptuously fix a date as to the 'death' of paper and the crowning of its digital successor.

A few newspapers have ventured into e-Paper, including business daily Les Echos in France, the Shanghai Daily using Amazon's Kindle, or the NRC Handelsblad in the Netherlands. In May, French telecom firm Orange launched an e-reader that offered access to a range of books and French papers. But these experiments remain just that at this stage - experiments.

Responding to the 2008 Newsroom Barometer, only 7% of editors believed that e-Paper would be the standard news platform in their countries within 10 years (although a combined 18.5% thought it would be either mobiles or e-Paper). Likewise, when we visited the Göteborgs Posten in Sweden a week ago, an arguably innovative and new media-oriented paper, its CEO and editor Peter Hjörne made it clear he had no plans to particularly invest or research e-Paper solutions in the near future - for the next 15 years. This doesn't mean that Hjörne won't be keeping his eyes open for developments, as should any conscientious editor or manager.

But even in the digitally ripe Scandinavian market, consumption and distribution of e-paper on a mass scale remains a distant thought for editors and publishers.

In fact, some of the biggest brakes to the advent of e-Paper may be e-Paper manufacturers and media players themselves, as they battle to try set an industry-wide standard for a reader.

"It would be nice to think that ebooks will avoid the format wars between the likes of Apple and Microsoft that have dogged the development of digital music players, but that seems unlikely," reported the Guardian.

It's impossible, and would certainly be foolish, to set a date for the 'disappearance' of print paper. It will take years before its digital alternative becomes cheap enough for the mass public and really booms. And even then this will be limited to a few select regions.

But most importantly: the emergence of a new technology like e-Paper won't suppress the need for real paper - not for a long time. It's not an either-or situation.

Said the Guardian's editorial: "In the future books will have to welcome a new member to the family with which they will share more similarities than differences."

Newspaper Le Figaro and mobile phone service Orange have partnered to offer a unique feature: it is the first live daily show about politics, entitled "The Talk," to be conceived exclusively for the Web and mobile phones.
The show will launch on Monday June 2 with French Prime Minister François Fillon. Every day, at 6pm, a political or financial celebrity will be interviewed by Figaro's star political reporter Anne Fulda or by Figaro.fr managing editor Laurent Guimier.
The show will be shot in the Figaro's own video studio (see the interview about their video studio) and will be broadcast live and for free on figaro.fr and on the news portal of Orange, both on the Web and on Orange mobile phones.
Truly innovative, this service will also be interactive, as Internet users can submit questions before the show and react to it live on the blog of "The Talk."
The show's business model is entirely based on its audience, thanks to banner ads sold on the sites of both the newspaper and mobile operator, for which both partners will share revenues.
The show's time, 6pm, was also geared to fill a 'news void' for the French audience, as they  are still at work or on their way home.
"There's on one side the best of content with Le Figaro, on the other the best of distribution with Orange. It's a win-win situation," said Orange President and Director, Didier Lombard.
Source: Figaro (here and here, links in French) through IFRA Executive News Service

Serge, a daily in Spain's Catalunya region, will launch an e-paper version this summer, compatible with ProtecMedia's E-Paper.

Similar to Holland's NRC Handelsblad, Serge will make the e-paper available through its website.
 
The electronic version will give readers access to the same content as the print and web editions, as well as possible exclusive e-paper content, such as audio, video and extra photos, reports Editor & Publisher.

France too is looking towards e-paper solutions, where France Telecom's Orange is offering a trial version of an e-paper reader which supports electronic versions of various French newspapers.

Source: Editor & Publisher

France Telecom's Orange has announced its trial of 150 ePaper devices, Read&Go, in France this year for a two-month pilot period. It will have 1 GB of storage, will be WiFi- and 3G-enabled, and will offer a range of books and the French newspapers Le Monde, Le Parisien, Les Echos, L'Equipe and Télérama. Content will be updated every hour between 6am and midnight.

A spokeswoman from Orange said the ePaper service is "in competition with paper, not with the Internet." She explained that Orange can succeed because they are able to put the costs of providing a device and network and content charges onto a single bill unlike Sony and Amazon.

A model has not been chosen yet, but Orange is looking into "advertising supported" offerings, using geolocation to embed ads.

The spokeswoman also said that ePaper devices "are particularly important for the newspaper industries in non-English speaking countries, where newspapers are expensive to distribute and difficult to get hold of." She added that "the company expects ePaper services to take off more quickly in non-English speaking countries [but] we will study the UK market very carefully ... but it is too early to say."

Les Echos, a French paper, had launched an e-paper in 2007, and Korean companies have made steps in developing ePaper devices. Analysts "believe that ePapers will ultimately hold the dominant position when it comes to downloads," according to Printweek.com.

Watch a Youtube video on how Read&Go will work here (in French).

Source: Printweek.com through IFRA Executive News Service, PaidContent.org

On Monday, The Baltimore Sun launched b, a free daily newspaper and website, which targets readers from 18-34, similar to parent Tribune Co.'s RedEye. They had announced developing 'b' in February as a step to broaden the Sun's audience in times of "declining revenue and increased competition," according to the Baltimore Sun website.

The first 40 page issue featured a cover story of reader's photographs shown at sites around the city, and included a section of reader "rants" and opinions. The first issue had 75,000 copies, distributed in 1,000 bright orange boxes in 1,400 drugstores, convenience stores and athletic clubs in metropolitan Baltimore. Also, about 70 volunteer employees handed out "samplers."

"It really is going well," said Timothy J. Thomas, vice president of business development, who expects distribution to grow to 100,000. "They're kind of flying off the shelves."

Steven Duke, associate professor of journalism at Northwestern University, said similar young adult-targeted newspapers, such as RedEye, have succeeded by distributing in places where young readers congregate.

He acknowledged that the economy presents challenges for new publications. For instance, the free daily BostonNOW was just shut down due to economic reasons.

With a staff of about 20, the tabloid newspaper and website has a focus on news, sports, entertainment news, blogs, and listings geared to its readers. A third of its content is planned to be reader-generated material. The tabloid also has content-sharing agreements with local radio stations WTMD-FM and WNST-AM. Online readers will have to opportunity to upload photos and videos.

"This truly is a daily conversation with our target audience," said Brad Howard, b general manager.

Sources: Editor & Publisher, Baltimore Sun

The Orange County Register’s (OCR) new publisher Terry Horne is betting on free community newspapers, an enhanced online edition and a smaller sister newspaper, in order to fight back against declining revenues and heightened costs.

“The three-pronged approach is an acknowledgment that the old newspaper business model – based on a one-size fits all newspaper – is no longer viable, Horne said in his first interview since becoming publisher in September,” reported the OCR.

Horne’s renewed business approach will be closely tied to changes in editorial content. The subscription-based paper will include content targeted at an older readership. The free community weeklies will target a more general audience with a hyperlocal focus. The website will be aimed at younger audience with free content.

This could entail less news content within the flagship paper as more emphasis is put on community papers.

The OCR is implementing these new strategies to weather through struggles with its business model: ad revenue is declining, newsprint costs have increased $5 million in annual costs, and paid circulation was down 3% in the six months ending Sep. 30. Last month, the paper cut 25 jobs and consolidates its business section into the news section.

Other changes at the OCR will include a size reduction, shrinking the width of the print paper by one inch, joining a consortium with other media companies to share advertising and news content, and launching a new online portal, OrangeCounty.com, which will serve to draw a larger and global audience. The OCR is also looking at initiatives such as zoning the Local news section.

Understandably, “it's a lot for longtime Register readers to take in and some are unhappy,” reported the OCR, but the "the better choice was to have less content but with as high a quality as possible," said Horne.

Source: Orange County Register through journerdism

Video, video, video. In 2007, the ‘V’ word was the new craze for newspapers internationally. And this is bound to continue in 2008. But just how much video should newspapers seek? Is it an optional plus, should all reporters be assigned to capture video, or should a newsroom even have its in-house studio? In Part 1, we take a look at several examples of how newspapers have included video.

Orange France and VF Italy have both announced their plans to launch mobile podcast services. The Java and Symbian supported services offer an innovative user experience compared to basic Wap-enabled services.

The Trinity Mirror is preparing to launch a multi-platform mobile service that will be tailored to the mobile user’s postal code.

User-generated content websites have flourished and there is no question now that they are here to stay, and that ‘user’ content will increasingly pervade all media – ‘traditional’ media that is. Has the definition of ‘News’ changed, or deteriorated, with the Web 2.0 revolution?  Are UGC sites competitors or facilitators for newspapers transitioning to the online world? Martin Rogard, director of content for YouTube’s European alter ego, Daily Motion, answers some of these questions for the Weblog, to help newspapers that can be torn between opening to readers and keeping the old rules in place.

Dagbladet, in Norway, has fully integrated video in its website, including user-generated content, promotional trailers, and even video as a mobile phone service.

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.

The Orange County Register has upgraded its website to include user profiles, which enable readers to create their own blogs, publish their news and share photos.

About a year ago, the Editors Weblog predicted that NYTimes.com would suffer from its move to restrict access to op-ed columnists through TimesSelect. A non-scientific look at the situation, a few days after TimesSelect was pulled down shows that this is the case.