Vendors shipped a record 54.5 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2009, 39% more than the 39.2 million shipped in the same quarter in 2008,
according to IDC information on PC World.
Four of the top five smartphone sellers beat their shipments records for a single quarter, according to numbers released by the
International Data Corporation (IDC). Following a 98% increase in smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2008,
Apple has regained its spot as third largest smartphone vendor, behind longtime leaders
Nokia and
Research in Motion
The Newspaper Guild of New York has accused
Thompson Reuters of imposing illegal pay cuts,
the New York Times reports.
The news comes just two months after the agency made clear its plans to cut some 240 jobs in its legal divisions across North America.
According to a complaint filed by the union on Friday, the news service is wrongly cutting the pay of some 420 employees by an average of 10 percent through various measures, including no longer contributing to staff retirement plans, health care, out of pocket expenses, as well as increasing the number of hours staff members must work in order to receive overtime. Automatic annual pay increases will also no longer be guaranteed.
Posted by Emma Heald on January 29, 2010 at 11:54 AM
Time's James Poniewozik has suggested that the significance of the New York Times's paywall is symbolic, rather than a sign that paid online content is the future for news. "Any pricing scheme that can raise actual money risks chasing away actual readers," and this why the NYT's charging method "probably won't make much difference to the Times's coffers or its readers at first."
As Poniewozik says, there are many people who won't end up paying for an online subscription to the New York Times. Print subscribers will get free access, casual readers won't have to pay, and those directed via other websites won't pay.
Online news consumption has dropped among young adults, but risen among older consumers, according to a new study by
IBM's Media and Entertainment Group. The study's full findings will be reported in coming weeks, and may mean the newspaper industry needs to decide even faster how to make its online offerings economically sustainable,
Dorian Benkoil reported in Poynter Online.
Young people aged 18-24 were the only segment that recorded a year-on-year drop for any digital media category, specifically for online newspapers. In 2008, around 64% of those surveyed said they had read a newspaper online in the last year, while by 2009 that figure had fallen to 54%.
From dock connectors to web analytics to guessing the name of this elusive gadget, all speculation will reach its pinnacle when
Apple's widely anticipated tablet is finally unveiled at an event in San Francisco Wednesday.
The much-hyped
iSlate (the name of the actual device has not been confirmed) is rumored to have a sleek 10-inch color display and Wi-Fi capabilities allowing newspapers, magazines, and book publishers to deliver their products with an eye-catching design.
Posted by Emma Heald on January 22, 2010 at 5:06 PM
New York Times executives
Janet L. Robinson, president and chief executive of the company, and
Martin A. Nisenholtz, senior vice president for digital operations,
have answered readers' questions about the upcoming paywall. It was announced on Wednesday that the US's premier general-interest paper
was to launch a metered payment system in early 2011.
The paper seems to be taking the crucial issue of ease of use seriously, with the executives stressing that "we are determined to make subscribing as smooth and easy as possible" and they hope that the infrastructure of NYTimes.com will "provide our Web users with an uncomplicated, frictionless experience."
The UK government may ask the
Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to consider the impact of local council newspapers on local commercial newspaper publishers,
Print Week and
This is Local London report. Or it may not, media commentator
Roy Greenslade points out.
Members of parliament from the three main parties last week called for council papers to be culled. Local newspapers have long protested that council papers take away from their falling market share.
Tom Boswell's usually revered sports column fuelled a not insignificant number of outcries from WaPo's most fastidious readers back in November, when it graced the publication's website littered with errors and typos. At the time the Post's ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, explained such occurrences as an undesirable side effect of tighter deadlines and fewer copy editors, after recent jobs cuts and a total of four buyouts since 2003.
But despite complaints from agitated readers, Boswell's typo strewn offering has been by no means an isolated case, and eagle eyed grammarians have been quick to point other errors as and when. Many ask pertinent questions, such as
Phillip K. Cohen: "If they don't care about basics like grammar and spelling, how much do they care about factual accuracy?"
Posted by Emma Heald on January 15, 2010 at 11:18 AM
Identify what you can offer that is unique, was
Matt Kelly's advice to participants at the
WAN-IFRA conference on using sports news to optimise your revenue. Digital content director at the
Mirror Group (part of
Trinity Mirror), Kelly led the creation of
MirrorFootball.co.uk, a standalone football-focused site that has gained the paper new readership.
Kelly explained that despite a successful redesign of the Mirror's website in 2008 which resulted in a significant increase in readership, the implosion in advertising rates meant that he and his team started to think about ways to re-engage with their readers.
Posted by Emma Heald on January 14, 2010 at 8:55 PM
He began by describing two websites which he thinks could inspire newspapers. ESPN has been launching local sites in the US - directly in competition with general local newspapers. The first was in April in Chicago, and the company has moved through major US cities, planning to launch in spring in New York, and it intends to come to the UK soon. These launches have been a great success for ESPN - the local audience in Chicago is higher than that of newspapers which were already there. Clearly the market wasn't already saturated, said Sabatier, it was an opportunity that local newspapers missed.
Allmediascotland.com reported price increases for Scottish newspaper heavyweights, The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. During the week, The Scotsman will carry a cover price of 80p: An increase of 5p. Its Saturday edition, meanwhile, is set to rise to £1.10: An increase of 10p. Similarly, Scotland on a Sunday will also see a raise of 10p, going up to £1.60.
The buzz keeps growing and growing around tablets - electronic devices with a touch-screen interface, e-reader capabilities, as well as web browsing among others.
Rumors about
Apple's tablet, or the
iSlate, as it is now being called, have been gaining momentum as the elusive and innovative device that is supposed to look like a bigger version of Apple's
iPhone, prepares to launch early this year.
Several other big high-tech players have also lined up to present their own versions of the slate. Just this last Wednesday,
Microsoft unveiled the Hewlett-Packard yet to be named tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
There is no denying that 2009 was an eventful year for both the staff at
WaPo and its readers, and one that saw the newspaper lose tens of millions of dollars. In an attempt to counter this the publication implemented
a number of significant changes to its newsroom operation,
cut a fair few jobs, and underwent a complete redesign - receiving a lot of criticism and a little praise.
Yet the 132-year-old paper weathered the storm and looks set to bring about a number changes this year, too, which will mainly affect the look of things online.
A half-dozen young men and a few women dressed in long Muslim outfits are sitting in an open space, repeating a few words in English. The instructor, a lady wearing a distinctive veil, sends one of her students to the board, and he starts writing a few words that his "schoolmates" have to repeat. We are in Hyderabad, India. Their native language is Urdu, a mix of Hindi with Arabic script, spoken by many Indian Muslims and widespread in Pakistan.
On the same floor, there is an insurance service office. On the opposite side, a TV studio with good, minimal equipment, with a large blue sheet on one of the back walls. The two rooms next door host a radio studio, for a station launched only a few days before, after months of waiting for the license. This is not a school of journalism, nor a social club, but
The Siasat Daily's building, based in India's fifth-largest metropolis.
Kubas Consultants have released the results of their survey of over 530 U.S. and Canadian newspaper executives' and managers' expectations for advertising revenues in 2010 and what strategies they have planned to meet the New Year's challenges.
'Preview 2010' found that next year is widely held to be a year of improvement in all categories of newspaper advertising revenue. It is important to note that 'improvement' here means 'declining less quickly' rather than positive growth. This is approximately the same perception expected of 2009, except that this optimism was misplaced as 2009 saw newspapers' online sales decrease.
The top strategic initiatives (show in the bar chart) predicted for 2010 were all found to be in the online sector. Improvements (i.e. making money off of) in website visitors, advertising spread, and web-based ad sales are to be integral parts of budgets next year.
The launch of a new newspaper in the midst of a recession would usually raise some eyebrows. And the spokesperson's assertion that he wants the paper to go out of business as quickly as possible would ordinarily be met with downright disbelief.
But One Step Away is no ordinary newspaper. Instead, it's produced by homeless people who live at two large homeless shelters in Philadelphia.
One Step Away is a monthly 16-page tabloid, and features
articles about homeless issues, as well as essays, poetry, horoscopes,
and a children's page. The articles are written by homeless people, and
even the children's page is written by children who live in homeless
shelters, in contrast to many street papers that have professional
editorial staff.
An article on the Washington Post by Paul Farhi has looked at recent media coverage of the
Tiger Woods' alleged extra-martial affairs, and pointed out some ethical issues that arise from what appears to be the simple repetition of celebrity gossip in established publications. Farhi writes that whilst: "There's little doubt that Woods cheated on his wife... two weeks after stories about the world's greatest golfer began detonating, much about this story has taken on the coloration of fact without the facts themselves."
The New York
Daily News can now print every page in colour, as its three new high-speed printing presses have whirred into action earlier this month.
Although the upgrade will increase efficiency and reduce waste, spending $200 million on equipment in the midst of a recession does appear to contravene conventional business wisdom.
But owner of the tabloid
Mort Zuckerman told
Crain's New York Business that he hopes that the resulting high-quality images will attract more advertising dollars, as high-end brands prefer to see their advertisements in the arresting visual format common to European newspapers or luxury magazines.
November was a bad month for two large tabloids in the UK. The
News of the World and
Sun had their circulations fall below 3 million, a psychologically important figure in the print industry.
The Sun's drop in circulation to 2.9 million is a 2.87% fall from November last year, while November's News of the World dropped 7.3% from last year.
In good news from New York, publisher
Manhattan Media has defied industry trends, with a fivefold increase in revenue since 2002.
Its secret? No, it hasn't found a loyal base of online subscribers. Instead, the company runs several hyperlocal publications, which cater to niche interests in the New York market.
Posted by Emma Heald on December 3, 2009 at 12:40 PM
A group of female editors and media experts from India, Sri Lanka, Russia and South Africa discussed the issue of whether more women editors-in-chief would generate more readers at the
16th World Editors Forum.
Bachi Karkaria, formerly with the Times of India and now an analyst of urban and social change and a media trainer, says that as an editor, she is totally against forms of gender-centric ideas. Journalism has too much emphasis on what is women issues and male issues, she said. Women issues consisting of housekeeping, entertainment and other light subjects and male issues consisting of heavier stories.
"Glass ceilings are sometimes actually creations of men," she said.
Roman Gallo, director of media strategies,
PPF, explained how his hyperlocal weekly papers, websites, and newsroom cafes have directly affected the monetization of media content.
When
Nase Adresa introduced its pilot hyperlocal program six months ago, the company chose four of the fourteen regions in the Czech Republic in which to launch three hyperlocal weeklies, five websites, and a specialized newsroom café in the Kroměříž district.
In a bit of encouraging media news,
Daily Mail & General Trust has beaten profit forecasts and the recession to record an overall 23% fall in profit from October 4th 2008.
Its flagship publication, the
Daily Mail, has reported the second-largest profit in its history. The
Daily Mail represents the biggest business asset of the DMGT.
At
Associated Papers, DMGT's UK national newspaper company, revenue fell 11% year on year, with only a 2% drop in circulation.
However, ad revenue plummeted 15%, reportedly because of the
sale of the London Evening Standard. Digital revenues from the Associated Newspapers' websites rose 11% year on year, accounting for some recouping of losses.
The
London Evening Standard will cut its midday
News Extra edition in order to focus on improving the currency and quality of its evening edition,
the Guardian is reporting.
The move will result in 20 job losses and comes
shortly after the paper dropped its 50 pence cover price to go free. At the time, editor
Geordie Greig said that the switch was necessary if the paper was to survive the harsh financial times and continue printing.
October brought in strong showings for
Guardian.co.uk traffic, exceeding 31 million uniques despite loosing 1 million uniques after September's record traffic.
Mail Online and
Telegraph.co.uk also achieved 30 million-plus uniques.
"Our
Trafigura story and Charlie Brooker's column on Jan Moir a few days later highlighted the way stories can grow and propagate through Twitter and Facebook with steady streams of traffic being driven by these social media channels," said
Emily Bell, director of digital content at
Guardian News Media.
Bell continued, "Guardian.co.uk then provided the perfect space for readers to add their comments and opinions," which facilitated sustained traffic. The lesson is clear; audience engagement and contribution drives both high traffic and core readership, and linkages with social networks benefit news sources enormously when done right.
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/smartphone_sales_soar_in_2009.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5666" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/smartphones09.jpg"><img alt="smartphones09.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/smartphones09-thumb-200x140-5666.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="140" width="200" /></a></form>Vendors shipped a record 54.5 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2009, 39% more than the 39.2 million shipped in the same quarter in 2008, <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/188610/smartphone_sales_score_record.html">according to <b>IDC</b> information on <i>PC World</i></a>. <br /><br />Four of the top five smartphone sellers beat their shipments records for a single quarter, according to numbers released by the <a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22196610">International Data Corporation (IDC)</a>. Following a 98% increase in smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2008, <b>Apple</b> has regained its spot as third largest smartphone vendor, behind longtime leaders <b>Nokia</b> and <b>Research in Motion</b> &title=Smartphone sales soar in 2009){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/reuters_accused_of_imposing_illegal_pay.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="4865" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/thompson_reuters_logo3-thumb-200x107-4864.jpg"><img alt="Thumbnail image for thompson_reuters_logo3.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/thompson_reuters_logo3-thumb-200x107-4864-thumb-200x107-4865.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="107" width="200" /></a></form><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/09/new_york_times_and_newspaper_guild_coope.php"><b>The Newspaper Guild of New York</b> </a>has accused <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2009/12/job_cuts_at_thomson_reuters.php"><b>Thompson Reuters</b> </a>of imposing illegal pay cuts, <i>the New York Times</i> reports. <a href="http://http//www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2009/12/job_cuts_at_thomson_reuters.php">The news comes just two months after the agency made clear its plans to cut some 240 jobs in its legal divisions across North America.</a>
<br /><br />According to a complaint filed by the union on Friday, the news service is wrongly cutting the pay of some 420 employees by an average of 10 percent through various measures, including no longer contributing to staff retirement plans, health care, out of pocket expenses, as well as increasing the number of hours staff members must work in order to receive overtime. Automatic annual pay increases will also no longer be guaranteed. &title=<b>Reuters</b> accused of imposing illegal pay cuts by union){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/less_young_people_read_news_online_than.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5494" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper%20oncomputer.jpg"><img alt="newspaper oncomputer.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/newspaper%20oncomputer-thumb-200x133-5494.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="133" width="200" /></a></form>Online news consumption has dropped among young adults, but risen among older consumers, according to a new study by <b>IBM's Media and Entertainment Group</b>. The study's full findings will be reported in coming weeks, and may mean the newspaper industry needs to decide even faster how to make its online offerings economically sustainable, <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=176279"><b>Dorian Benkoil</b> reported in <i>Poynter Online</i></a>. <br /><br />Young people aged 18-24 were the only segment that recorded a year-on-year drop for any digital media category, specifically for online newspapers. In 2008, around 64% of those surveyed said they had read a newspaper online in the last year, while by 2009 that figure had fallen to 54%. <br />&title=Fewer young people read news online than their parents){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2010/01/how_old_media_hopes_for.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5464" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/appleinvite-2.jpg"><img alt="appleinvite-2.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/appleinvite-2-thumb-200x159-5464.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="159" width="200" /></a></form>From dock connectors to web analytics to guessing the name of this elusive gadget, all speculation will reach its pinnacle when <b>Apple</b>'s widely anticipated tablet is finally unveiled at an event in San Francisco Wednesday. <br /><br />The much-hyped <i>iSlate</i> (the name of the actual device has not been confirmed) is rumored to have a sleek 10-inch color display and Wi-Fi capabilities allowing newspapers, magazines, and book publishers to deliver their products with an eye-catching design.<br /> <br /><br /> <div><br /></div><iframe name="mashlogic" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; overflow: hidden; display: none; z-index: 9999; position: absolute; top: auto; right: auto; bottom: auto; left: auto;" id="mashlogic" src="about:blank" frameborder="0"></iframe>&title=<i>Before:</i> Will newspapers cash in on <b>Apple</b>'s tablet?){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/01/a_few_more_details_on_the_new_york_times.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5379" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/new%20york%20times%20logo-thumb-203x33-1913-thumb-200x32-2693-thumb-200x32-5363.jpg"><img alt="Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for new york times logo.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/new%20york%20times%20logo-thumb-203x33-1913-thumb-200x32-2693-thumb-200x32-5363-thumb-200x32-5379.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="32" width="200" /></a></form><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/"><i>New York Times</i></a> executives <b>Janet L. Robinson</b>, president and chief executive of the company, and <b>Martin A. Nisenholtz</b>, senior vice president for digital operations, <a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/talk-to-the-times-answers-about-charging-online/?hp">have answered readers' questions about the upcoming paywall</a>. It was announced on Wednesday that the US's premier general-interest paper <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2010/01/new_york_times_paywall_will_it_work.php">was to launch a metered payment system in early 2011</a>. <br /><br />The paper seems to be taking the crucial issue of ease of use seriously, with the executives stressing that "we are determined to make subscribing as smooth and easy as possible" and they hope that the infrastructure of NYTimes.com will "provide our Web users with an uncomplicated, frictionless experience."<iframe name="mashlogic" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; overflow: hidden; display: none; z-index: 9999; position: absolute; top: auto; right: auto; bottom: auto; left: auto;" id="mashlogic" src="about:blank" frameborder="0"></iframe>&title=A few more details on the <b><i>New York Times'</b></i> online payment system){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/01/uk_government_to_investigate_local_counc.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5414" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/localnewspapers.jpg"><img alt="localnewspapers.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/localnewspapers-thumb-200x156-5414.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="156" width="200" /></a></form>The UK government may ask the <b>Office of Fair Trading</b> (OFT) to consider the impact of local council newspapers on local commercial newspaper publishers, <a href="http://www.printweek.com/business/news/978066/Government-may-turn-OFT-local-council-newspapers/"><i>Print Week</i></a> and <a href="http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/whereilive/localheadlines/4849922.Taxpayer_funded_town_hall__propaganda__newspapers_referred_to_watchdog/"><i>This is Local London</i> report</a>. Or it may not, media commentator <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/jan/14/council-run-newspapers-local-newspapers"><b>Roy Greenslade</b> points out</a>.
<br /><br />Members of parliament from the three main parties last week called for council papers to be culled. Local newspapers have long protested that council papers take away from their falling market share.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/01/identify_your_unique_offering_says_mirro.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5351" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/mirrorfootball-5351.html" onclick="window.open('http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/mirrorfootball-5351.html','popup','width=998,height=577,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/mirrorfootball-thumb-250x144-5351.png" alt="mirrorfootball.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" width="250" height="144" /></a></form>Identify what you can offer that is unique, was <b>Matt Kelly's</b> advice to participants at the <b>WAN-IFRA </b>conference on using sports news to optimise your revenue. Digital content director at the <b>Mirror Group</b> (part of <b>Trinity Mirror)</b>, Kelly led the creation of<a href="http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/"><i> MirrorFootball.co.uk</i></a>, a standalone football-focused site that has gained the paper new readership. <br /><br />Kelly explained that despite a successful redesign of the Mirror's website in 2008 which resulted in a significant increase in readership, the implosion in advertising rates meant that he and his team started to think about ways to re-engage with their readers. <iframe name="mashlogic" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; overflow: hidden; display: none; z-index: 9999; position: absolute; top: auto; right: auto; bottom: auto; left: auto;" id="mashlogic" src="about:blank" frameborder="0"></iframe>&title=Identify your unique offering, says <b><i>Mirror's</i> Matt Kelly</b>){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2010/01/what_tablets_could_mean_for_newspapers.php&bodytext=The buzz keeps growing and growing around tablets - electronic devices with a touch-screen interface, e-reader capabilities, as well as web browsing among others.<br /><br />Rumors about <b>Apple</b>'s tablet, or the <b>iSlate</b>, as it is now being called, have been gaining momentum as the elusive and innovative device that is supposed to look like a bigger version of Apple's <b>iPhone</b>, prepares to launch early this year. <br /><br /><form mt:asset-id="5242" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/hp%20tablet.jpg"><img alt="hp tablet.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/hp%20tablet-thumb-200x342-5242.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" width="200" height="342" /></a></form>Several other big high-tech players have also lined up to present their own versions of the slate. Just this last Wednesday, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jan/07/ballmer-ces-2010-keynote-microsoft"><b>Microsoft</b> unveiled the <b>Hewlett-Packard</b> </a>yet to be named tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. <br /><br />&title=What tablet computers could mean for newspapers){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/01/wapos_online_presence_set_to_increase_in.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="3831" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/wash%20post.jpeg"><img alt="wash post.jpeg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/10/wash%20post-thumb-200x200-3831.jpeg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="200" width="200" /></a></form>There is no denying that 2009 was an eventful year for both the staff at <i><b>WaPo</b></i> and its readers, and one that saw the newspaper lose tens of millions of dollars. In an attempt to counter this the publication implemented <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/11/double_threat_to_quality_journalism_tigh.php">a number of significant changes to its newsroom operation</a>, <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/11/job_cuts_at_wapo.php">cut a fair few jobs,</a> and underwent a complete redesign - receiving a lot of criticism and a little praise.<br /><br />Yet the 132-year-old paper weathered the storm and looks set to bring about a number changes this year, too, which will mainly affect the look of things online. &title=<b><i>WaPo's</b></i> online presence set to increase in 2010){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2009/12/being_hyperlocal_through_community_servi.php&bodytext=<form class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="DISPLAY: inline" mt:asset-id="5107"><a onclick="window.open('http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/SiasatDaily14-5107.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/SiasatDaily14-5107.html"><img class="mt-image-right" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px" height="187" alt="SiasatDaily14.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/SiasatDaily14-thumb-250x187-5107.jpg" width="250" /></a></form>A half-dozen young men and a few women dressed in long Muslim outfits are sitting in an open space, repeating a few words in English. The instructor, a lady wearing a distinctive veil, sends one of her students to the board, and he starts writing a few words that his "schoolmates" have to repeat. We are in Hyderabad, India. Their native language is Urdu, a mix of Hindi with Arabic script, spoken by many Indian Muslims and widespread in Pakistan.
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<div>On the same floor, there is an insurance service office. On the opposite side, a TV studio with good, minimal equipment, with a large blue sheet on one of the back walls. The two rooms next door host a radio studio, for a station launched only a few days before, after months of waiting for the license. This is not a school of journalism, nor a social club, but <i><a href="http://www.siasat.com/">The Siasat Daily</a></i><a href="http://www.siasat.com/">'s</a> building, based in India's fifth-largest metropolis.</div>&title=Going hyperlocal through community services in India: the <b><i>Siasat Daily</b></i>){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/12/2010_outlook_on_ad_revenue_and_strategic.php&bodytext=<b>Kubas Consultants</b> have released the results of their survey of over 530 U.S. and Canadian newspaper executives' and managers' expectations for advertising revenues in 2010 and what strategies they have planned to meet the New Year's challenges. <div><br /></div><form mt:asset-id="5071" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/2010 initiatives-5071.html" onclick="window.open('http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/2010 initiatives-5071.html','popup','width=492,height=444,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/2010 initiatives-thumb-250x225-5071.png" width="250" height="225" alt="2010 initiatives.png" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form><div>'Preview 2010' found that next year is widely held to be a year of improvement in all categories of newspaper advertising revenue. It is important to note that 'improvement' here means 'declining less quickly' rather than positive growth. This is approximately the same perception expected of 2009, except that this optimism was misplaced as 2009 saw newspapers' online sales decrease. </div><div><br /></div><div>The top strategic initiatives (show in the bar chart) predicted for 2010 were all found to be in the online sector. Improvements (i.e. making money off of) in website visitors, advertising spread, and web-based ad sales are to be integral parts of budgets next year.</div>&title=2010 outlook on ad revenue and strategic initiatives){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2009/12/tiger_woods_scandal_blurs_lines_over_fac.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5016" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/tiger.jpg"><img alt="tiger.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/tiger-thumb-200x201-5016.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="201" width="200" /></a></form><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/10/AR2009121004315.html">An article on the <i><b>Washington Post</b></i> by <b>Paul Farhi</b></a> has looked at recent media coverage of the <b>Tiger Woods</b>' alleged extra-martial affairs, and pointed out some ethical issues that arise from what appears to be the simple repetition of celebrity gossip in established publications. Farhi writes that whilst: "There's little doubt that Woods cheated on his wife... two weeks after stories about the world's greatest golfer began detonating, much about this story has taken on the coloration of fact without the facts themselves."<br /><br /><br /><br /> <div><br /></div>&title=<b>Tiger Woods</b> scandal blurs lines over fact and fiction){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/12/daily_news_takes_advantage_of_new_colour.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="4992" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/DailyNewsNewYorkNY.jpg"><img alt="DailyNewsNewYorkNY.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/DailyNewsNewYorkNY-thumb-200x305-4992.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="305" width="200" /></a></form>The New York <i><b>Daily News</b></i> can now print every page in colour, as its three new high-speed printing presses have whirred into action earlier this month.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/11/daily_news_owner_shows_faith_in_print.php">Although the upgrade will increase efficiency and reduce waste</a>, spending $200 million on equipment in the midst of a recession does appear to contravene conventional business wisdom. <br /><br />But owner of the tabloid <b>Mort Zuckerman</b> told <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20091213/FREE/312139967"><i><b>Crain's New York Business</b></i></a> that he hopes that the resulting high-quality images will attract more advertising dollars, as high-end brands prefer to see their advertisements in the arresting visual format common to European newspapers or luxury magazines.<br /> &title=<b><i>Daily News</i></b> takes advantage of new colour printing presses){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/12/november_abcs_indicate_low_circulation_f.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4961" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/10/uktabloids-thumb-203x152-4060-thumb-200x149-4061.jpg"><img alt="Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for uktabloids.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/uktabloids-thumb-203x152-4060-thumb-200x149-4061-thumb-200x149-4961.jpg" width="200" height="149" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form>November was a bad month for two large tabloids in the UK. The <b><i>News of the World</i></b> and <b><i>Sun</i></b> had their circulations fall below 3 million, a psychologically important figure in the print industry.
<div><br /></div><div>The <i>Sun</i>'s drop in circulation to 2.9 million is a 2.87% fall from November last year, while November's <i>News of the World</i> dropped 7.3% from last year.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/12/hyperlocal_publishing_thrives_in_new_yor.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="4858" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/new_york_1.jpg"><img alt="new_york_1.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/new_york_1-thumb-200x150-4858.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="150" width="200" /></a></form>In good news from New York, publisher <b>Manhattan Media</b> has defied industry trends, with a fivefold increase in revenue since 2002. <br /><br />Its secret? No, it hasn't found a loyal base of online subscribers. Instead, the company runs several hyperlocal publications, which cater to niche interests in the New York market.<br /><br /> &title=Hyperlocal publishing thrives in New York){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/world_newspaper_congress/2009/12/women_at_the_top_is_there_a_need_for_mor.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4800" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/womensgroup.jpg"><img alt="womensgroup.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/womensgroup-thumb-300x199-4800.jpg" width="300" height="199" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form><div>A group of female editors and media experts from India, Sri Lanka, Russia and South Africa discussed the issue of whether more women editors-in-chief would generate more readers at the <b><a href="http://www.wanindia2009.com">16th World Editors Forum. </a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bachi Karkaria</b>, formerly with the <i>Times of India</i> and now an analyst of urban and social change and a media trainer, says that as an editor, she is totally against forms of gender-centric ideas. Journalism has too much emphasis on what is women issues and male issues, she said. Women issues consisting of housekeeping, entertainment and other light subjects and male issues consisting of heavier stories.</div><div><br /></div><div>"Glass ceilings are sometimes actually creations of men," she said.</div> &title=Women at the top: is there a need for more female editors-in-chief?){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/12/roman_gallo_shares_how_nasa_andresa_is_m.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4726" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/GalloR.jpg"><img alt="GalloR.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/12/GalloR-thumb-250x165-4726.jpg" width="250" height="165" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form><b>Roman Gallo</b>, director of media strategies, <b>PPF</b>, explained how his hyperlocal weekly papers, websites, and newsroom cafes have directly affected the monetization of media content.
<div><br /></div><div>When<i><b> Nase Adresa</b></i> introduced its pilot hyperlocal program six months ago, the company chose four of the fourteen regions in the Czech Republic in which to launch three hyperlocal weeklies, five websites, and a specialized newsroom café in the Kroměříž district.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/11/daily_mail_reports_near_record_returns_d.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4598" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/dmgt.gif"><img alt="dmgt.gif" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/11/dmgt-thumb-250x69-4598.gif" width="230" height="69" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form>In a bit of encouraging media news, <b>Daily Mail & General Trust </b>has beaten profit forecasts and the recession to record an overall 23% fall in profit from October 4th 2008.<div><br /></div><div>Its flagship publication, the <i><b>Daily Mail</b></i>, has reported the second-largest profit in its history. The <i>Daily Mail</i> represents the biggest business asset of the DMGT. <div><br /></div><div> At <b>Associated Papers</b>, DMGT's UK national newspaper company, revenue fell 11% year on year, with only a 2% drop in circulation.
However, ad revenue plummeted 15%, reportedly because of the <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/01/russian_billionaire_lebedev_confirmed_as.php">sale of the </a><i><b><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/01/russian_billionaire_lebedev_confirmed_as.php">London Evening Standard</a></b></i>. Digital revenues from the Associated Newspapers' websites rose 11% year on year, accounting for some recouping of losses.</div></div>&title=<i><b>Daily Mail</i></b> reports near record returns, <b>DMGT</b> beats profit forecasts){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/11/evening_standard_drops_midday_edition.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4595" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/eveningstand.jpg"><img alt="eveningstand.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/11/eveningstand-thumb-250x156-4595.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="156" width="250" /></a></form>The <i><b>London Evening Standard</b></i> will cut its midday <b><i>News Extra</i></b> edition in order to focus on improving the currency and quality of its evening edition, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/26/london-evening-standard-drops-edition">the <i><b>Guardian</b></i> is reporting</a>. <br /><br />The move will result in 20 job losses and comes <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/10/london_evening_standard_for_free.php">shortly after the paper dropped its 50 pence cover price to go free</a>. At the time, editor <b>Geordie Greig</b> said that the switch was necessary if the paper was to survive the harsh financial times and continue printing. <br /><br /><br /> <div><br /></div>&title=<b><i>Evening Standard</b></i> drops midday edition){kind=link}