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The relaunch of the redesigned MyTelegraph site this summer will see user generated content integrated across other areas of Telegraph.co.uk, said Telegraph communities editor Shane Richmond at the PPA conference.

Accoring to Richmond, plans are in place "to take user content into other areas of Telegraph.co.uk to advertise and integrate the service." The updated MyTelegraph service will also include new tools enabling users to upload multimedia conference, reports Journalism.co.uk.

The Telegraph opted to redesign the site following the closure of Intersource, the company that built the site's original platform.

In the interim, MyTelegraph (see image), which currently has 18,000 registered users, has been housed at Telegraph HQ, Richmond said.

"That left us in a very precarious position. We had a lack of experience in running the site," he said.

The revamped site will be run on a platform created by American company ONESite.

Source: Journalism.co.uk 

The Pune-based Sakaal Media Group has launched The Sakaal Times, an English-language 24-page daily with almost 80% outsourced content.  

The Times, which launches in Pune a month after the debut of the morning compact daily The Pune Mirror, replaces the older English-language Sakaal-owned paper The Maharashtra Herald.

Starting with an initial print run of 1,000,000 copies, The Sakaal Times enters a saturated market that includes new entrants Daily News and Analysis and The Mirror as well as established papers such as The Times of India and The Indian Express.

Sakaal Media has made agreements with Dehli-based Asia-Pacific Communication Associates and other news agencies to provide the editorial content.

The Times was designed by newspaper designer Mario Garcia, who recently worked on the design of Thailand's first-ever free sheet.

Sources: Business Standard through IFRA Executive News Service, Exchange4Media.com

Reed Business Information is debating a pay-per-view pay model for its journalists, according to RBI managing director Jim Muttram.

Should the company adopt the idea of compensating journalists based on number of page impressions, journalists would have to take a lower basic salary in return for a commission style bonus, reports Journalism.co.uk.

"We have done some thinking about how we might reward journalists for page impressions. It's such a controversial view I think it would take some time before that comes around but it makes good sense," Muttram said.

Some companies, like Incisive Media, have already put in place similar models. At Incisive, senior editorial staff amongst the publisher's titles receive bonuses for meeting online and digital targets.

A pay-per-view model of the sort proposed by RBI is a mixed bag. Optimistically it could encourage journalists to work harder to get a story. But it is just as likely to lead to sensationalism, as journalists try and one-up each other to attract the most readers.

Source: Journalism.co.uk through IFRA Executive News Service  

In an internal and confidential memo, Financial Times managing editor Dan Bogler (see our Future of journalism interview with him) admitted that female journalists were paid less than men in equivalent jobs.

In the memo, he said "the bald statistics show that women are paid less than men for equivalent jobs at the FT."

However, he also defended this based on the fact the duration of employment was much shorter for women.

"This does not take into account the fact that, on average, our female staff have shorter service records than their male colleagues, which explains the difference," he wrote.

According to an FT spokesman, the difference in pay is less than 10%, but members of the National Union of Journalists claim the FT's own salary survey found a 11% pay difference.

The leaked memo comes in the middle of a management-employee crisis at the FT over staff wages.

Source: Guardian

"With Twitter though, one senior reporter using a standard mobile phone can keep an entire section of our site instantly updated with the very latest breaking news," said Christian Dunn, digital editor of the Evening Leader in the UK.

Although they may have smaller budgets, "This means that regional newspapers, like the Evening Leader, can finally break news just as fast as the big boys - even Sky and the BBC."

After using Twitter to cover soccer games, the Evening Leader reported on the local election results by 'Twittering' from the region's counts.

Senior reporter Mike Youds reported from the Flintshire count throughout the night of May 1, filing in his reports using his mobile phone.

Online readers could follow news about the election by visiting the Evening Leader's Twitter profile page, or by going through a specially designed page on the Evening Leader's website that had the Twitter feed embedded in it.

According to Deputy editor Martin Wright, the website's efficient use of Twitter also helped to improve the print paper production.

"It was great for everyone in the newsroom to know that they'd been the first in the area to break the results and allowed us to concentrate on strong reaction and colour pieces in the next day's newspaper."

It has been a little over a year that Twitter was first hailed as a potential breakthrough for online journalism. It now seems that some newspapers, including the Evening Leader, are beginning to harness its power.

Source: holdthefrontpage.co.uk through IFRA Executive News Service

The Associated Press, along with more than 100 of its member newspapers, is launching a mobile news service for Apple's iPhone.

The service will offer local news from participating member papers. National and international content will be provided by AP feeds.  

See our sister blog SFN for the full story.

Sources: Yahoo! News through I Want Media, Apple.com (picture)

First-quarter profits at the Washington Post Co. declined 39%, hit by a one-time charge at Newsweek magazine and the continuing struggles of its newspaper division.

The newspaper division, whose flagship title is the Washington Post, reported $1.2 million in operating income, down 92% year over year. Revenue was $206.1 million, down 6% from $219.2 million last year. Print ad revenue dropped 11% over the same period, mostly due to the decline in classified advertising.

"We had a disappointing first quarter as a result of several factors: steep losses in classified revenues driven by local economic factors, continued migration of revenue to the Internet and general softness as advertisers affected by the tough economy pull back on spending," said Katharine Weymouth, chief executive of Washington Post Media.

Source: Washington Post - Business Spectator through IFRA Executive News Service

XFMedia, a leading media group in China, launched the Investor Journal this week, targeting the large and growing Chinese retail investor market.

The Chinese language newspaper, modeled on weekly financial publications like Barrons, is aimed at the top end of China's 96 million active brokerage accounts, those with over one million RMB in liquid assets, reports Asia Media Journal.

The paper has a staff of 60, including 12 financial analysts, and is distributed nationally. Its editors intend to fill an identified gap in the financial reporting market.  
 
"Currently, we believe there is no newspaper in China which delivers to investors truly trustworthy financial market information emphasizing in-depth analysis, reliable data combined with an international perspective," said Zhao Li, chief editor of Investor Journal.

Sources: Asia Media Journal through IFRA Executive News Service, Marketing-Interactive (picture)  

The Online Journalism Blog (OJB) has created the European News Interactivity Index, adapting Joanna Geary's analysis of interactivity on UK business news websites to newspapers across Europe.

The index itself is interactive; in a feature created by Nicolas Kayser-Brill, users can compare head-to-head the interactivity ranking of different European countries (go here to see the tool). The results look like the image to the left of a comparison between BBC News and El Pais.

The European Index conserves most of Geary's original interactivity indicators, including RSS, Bookmarking, Twitter, and easy to find contact information. By morphing into a group blog, the OJB has recruited contributors from various countries across the continent. In order to expand the service, it is continuing to invite further contributions and analysis about any European paper.

Source: Online Journalism Blog through IFRA Executive News Service  

Next Monday, 24-page Indonesian newspaper Koran Jakarta will be available at newsstands with a target of selling 80,000 copies.

The paper is published by PT Berita Nusantara and will have a special economics section.

"We're not head to head with any other newspapers because ours is unique. It is a morning newspaper with more news on the economy," said chief editor Marthen Selamet Susanto.

According to Selamet, 40% of the paper will focus on business.

"We have a concept and we offered it to businessmen. There are at least 10 businessmen providing us with capital, but they don't determine our editorial," he said. Instead, Selamet says the paper belongs to its reporters.

The newspaper's readership would be people "with salaries above Rp 1 million with at least a high school education," according to Selamet.

The newspaper will be available in Greater Jakarta, South Sumatra's Palembang, and West Java's Bandung.

Source: JakartaPost.com through IFRA Executive News Service

Last week, Nebraskan newspaper the Grand Island Independent used live blogging tool CoverItLive after the relaunch of its site for a live Q&A session between readers and web staff. It remained available for an additional two days because of its popularity.

The feature was advertised in the print edition of the newspaper and as a link on the site's homepage. It garnered a lot of reader feedback, including reports of glitches in the new site, which were quickly fixed, according to Stephanie Romanski, web editor of the Independent.

"The whole errors issue surprised me and was an unexpected bonus to holding the Q&A. I mostly expected either 'Love it/Hate it responses or a lot of 'I can't find...' questions. I think we impressed some readers by being able to respond to their issues so quickly," said Romanski.

The Independent may be experimenting with other tools for sports and political coverage and for setting up a regular weekly chat with staff.

"I believe that newspapers that embrace the web and the awesome and often free tools available out there will be the newspapers that make it through the current slump the industry is experiencing and will thrive in the future," Romanski remarked.

Source: Journalism.co.uk through IFRA Executive News Service

Twitter, which Jeff Jarvis calls the "next evolutionary step in blogging," has been put to good use for a variety of different types of reporting. Add sports coverage to the list, thanks to an initiative from local UK newspaper The Evening Leader.

The Leader used Twitter to provide live coverage of Wrexham FC's April 26 home match against Accrington Stanley, reports Journalism.co.uk. The tweets, texted every few minutes by deputy editor Martin Wright, appeared both on a widget on the Leader website and on the paper's Wrexham Twitter account.

"I go to as many Wrexham home games as I can, but inevitably I end up missing some," Wright said. "When I'm at work this can be a bit of a problem because I want to know the score and what's happening all the time - not just when the final whistle goes."

Source: Journalism.co.uk through IFRA Executive News Service

BBC's first phase of integrating their news operation across media was completed on Monday with a common newsrooms in which journalists from the corporation's television news service started to work with their colleagues from radio and television news bulletins.

This move is due to a  "smaller than expected lisence fee settlement," according to Press Gazette journalist Martin Stabe, which made BBC want to "reduce duplication of its newsgathering operations."

"The number of roles has been reduced significantly because we've had to make these big savings," said BBC head of newsroom Peter Horrocks. "We've introduced some multimedia roles, but as people develop multimedia skills and once we've got all the platforms sitting alongside each other they can work together most effectively."

There is a a centralized "Media Wire" desk, which monitors audio and video feeds, then transfers stories to the most appropriate outlets, and there is also a centralized planning desk that controls assignments. There will also be a senior editor who will be the "multimedia editor," who will coordinate the different media and mediate conflicts. Each desk will also have a "web conversion producer," who will be responsible for extending stories that were originally produced for online platforms.

The next steps include integrating journalists from the BBC's international news channel, BBC World News, and those responsible for the text-based sections of the BBC News website.

In June, BBC Online journalists will join the converged newsroom, then the online news operation will split into two sections: one will cover world news and move to the second floor of the newsroom with the BBC World News television team, and the other will be the UK operation on the first floor, producing domestic radio and television bulletins.

Most journalists will "continue to work primarily in the media that they have traditionally worked," says Horrocks, "though over time, producers will increasingly work across television, radio and online as staff are put through a training program."

Source: Press Gazette through IFRA Executive News Service

The Telegraph Media Group has appointed Adrian Michaels, the Financial Times' Milan correspondent, to the newly created position of head of foreign operations in another step towards print and online integration. Michaels will oversee the group's network of correspondents and will run world news output across the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk.

"Adrian has been a subeditor, news editor, and foreign correspondent, making him ideally suited to lead our new integrated world news operation. He will be a real asset to the Telegraph's executive team," TMG editor-in-chief Will Lewis said.

Daily Telegraph foreign editor Mike Smith will leave the foreign desk and will assume a new role, while Sunday Telegraph foreign editor David Wastell will not change positions.

The Telegraph Media Group has made several staff changes, including laying off home news journalists, as well as arts correspondent Nigel Reynolds. They have also changed people's roles, such as giving former Sunday Telegraph deputy editor Iain Martin the new role of head of comment and community for both newspapers' comment sections and the Telegraph's online blogs.

Source: Guardian.co.uk through IFRA Executive News Service