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Google's recently introduced search function is getting a mixed reception.

The new feature (click on the photo fora better view) allows users to surf newspaper and other sites remotely. For example, if someone searches New York Times, Google brings up an in-page Search nytimes.com box that lets a user browse NYT content without ever going to the newspaper's site. The feature has not yet been introduced to Google's foreign language sites. See here for more details on the search function and Google's other new service, Google Trends.   

The initial fears that Google's new feature would detract from advertising revenue are still alive and well. As the New York Times and blogger Martin Belam contend, there is a risk that the new function "could reduce page impressions" for the publisher itself, reports Paid Content.

Others, however, are much more optimistic.

"If [the search] does such a great job as to make our internal search too redundant, then that's fine," said Edward Roussel, Telegraph.co.uk digital editor. "At the end of the day we want people to read our content but we don't mind how they find it."  

Guardian.co.uk blogs editor Kevin Anderson also points out that some news organizations are pushing their readers to use Google because their own search functions are so inefficient.

Source: Paid Content 

Since the Financial Times integrated its newsroom in 2006 and moved into a new one in 2007, it has been among the few British newspapers to increase its circulation, ad revenue and profits. Changes in the editorial process resulting from integration included “storybuilding,” new work shifts and lunch-hour training sessions.

When The Australian News reported that Fairfax would equip 400 or more journalists with all-purpose multimedia mobile Jasjam devices, at the cost of $1300 a piece, this sounded like a project equally revolutionary and costly. Here, Fairfax’s top editors describe the overarching vision behind the mobile tools, and how its newspapers are training reporters to adapt to an evolving breaking news culture.

The big newsroom story of 2006 was the transformation at The Telegraph in the UK – the layout, the building and most importantly, attitude. There are a number of different ways to present news to an audience – popular means such as newspapers, radio and television – and now, more than ever, online. The Telegraph was looking for a way to improve their product whilst embracing audio and visual to greater effect. And so, The Telegraph integrated newsroom was born.

Some would say that the Web has facilitated the job of the journalist. Others would say the tasks of online journalists are much more complex. Journalists at the Wall Street Journal are of the latter opinion, rebelling against a management that they feel is demanding too much.

As the first anniversary of his appointment approaches, the Financial Times’ editor Lionel Barber is confident in the essentiality of his paper.  Eight months into his tenure Barber introduced a new integrated newsroom that resulted in 50 layoffs.  The editor maintains that the actions were necessary to bring FT into the digital era.

The Financial Times will integrate its print and online newsrooms on October 1st, says editor Lionel Barber.  Along with the total consolidation of print and online news desks, all journalists will be required to work 3 early morning shifts per month.