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A new standard to protect the intellectual property of anyone wishing to make content available on the worldwide web will be unveiled at a conference in New York next month after a year-long pilot project spearheaded by leading publishing groups from around the globe.

Think about personalized news sites as an improved RSS feed with a customized homepage design. This is basically the concept of DailyMe, one among many of these emerging sites. DailyMe opened its Beta version  to the public today, and plans to establish itself as a primary news source for online readers. Will newspapers fare down the same personalization route? Eduardo Hauser, publisher of DailyMe, talks to the Weblog.

Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist serving a 10-year prison sentence for revealing his government’s orders to newspapers to censor their reporting of the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary, has been awarded the 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize from the World Association of Newspapers.

After the collapse of the old regime, the number of newspapers in the country increased to over 200. The BBC now estimates that there are around 50 newspapers publishing regularly.

Following the year of social networks and Web 2.0, this will be the year of the mobile boom, predicted former WB network head Jed Petrick. Looks like the Financial Times (FT) heard him, since it just launched a new mobile news reader service.

 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? 

Famed Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has been practicing journalism since the age of 15. Recently awarded Columbia University's Cabot Prize for Outstanding Reporting on Latin America along with three other journalists, Vargas Llosa told the prize ceremony's New York audience that journalism "is the best tool for improving democracy."

The recent American Press Institute study “Newspaper Next” had some pressing news for the newspaper industry: local information should be an immediate priority. The fact is, countless regional papers have dragged their feet when it comes to developing vibrant local hubs.  With the threat of larger players hinging in on local markets, are papers too late to develop their sites?

If the internet puts the entire world at your fingertips, it also provides great benefits in your own backyard.

How consumers are using the internet for local information, products and services, and why on-line newspapers are the best-placed medium to assist them, is the heart of a session on "New Local Strategies and Opportunities" at the World Digital Publishing Conference, to be held in London on 26 and 27 October next.

Carolyn McCall, the Chief Executive of the Guardian Media Group, and other leading newspaper executives will share their perspectives on digital opportunities for newspapers at a new World Association of Newspapers conference to be held in London on 26 and 27 October next.

Web portals and news agencies: new threats to newspapers? The question will be explored at the third session of the 13th World Editors Forum, which begins June 4 in Moscow. New media mean new competition for newspapers. News aggregators lead readers to other sources and Internet companies produce original content. News agencies directly access the public though their websites, skipping the newspaper middleman. Can newspapers adjust their business models and find the resources to compete or will web portals and news agencies dominate Internet news?

The Financial Times has announced that it will extend the delay between the time it prints an article and the time it allows aggregators to use its content from 12 to 24 hours. The principal goal of the strategy, which will begin on September 1, is to establish direct relationships between the pinksheet and its readers. Will going it  alone work?

Cgogo Technology Co., Ltd. is teaming up with Beijing Technology Newspaper to launch the Mobile Beijing Technology Newspaper, a mobile newspaper with its own independent domain name on a WAP network. According to the mobile search provider, this is the first mobile newspaper focusing on technology.

Responding to demands of more digital integration, the Associated Press is introducing news video for the Web, a multimedia young readers’ service, more sports and financial information, expanded choice in photos and new formats like blogs and podcasts, said Tom Curley, AP’s president and CEO.

As more media becomes available to us à la carte, it is no surprise that a new marketplace will open up online where newspapers, magazines, web sites and broadcasters can sell their content to other publications. Mochila will be the first to do this.

As advertsing revenue decreases, the internet is increasingly utilized for advertising space. Newspapers are increasingly looking to the Internet to help them capture new readers and advertisers at a low cost.

The World Association of Newspapers has announced the creation of the Gebran Tueni Award, which will annually honour a newspaper publisher or editor in the Arab world who demonstrates the values upheld by the WAN Board Member and Lebanese democracy advocate who was assassinated in Beirut in December.

The British and American press are faced with an editorial decision. An overwhelming majority of their newspapers declined to publish the Mohammed cartoons claiming that the images were too offensive to Muslims among numerous other excuses. Now, the French Charlie Hebdo and Jyllands-Posten, the same Danish daily that commissioned the cartoons, have printed a manifesto signed by 12 well-known academics and writers including Salman Rushdie, that is undoubtedly anti-Islamist Extremist and will certainly be interpreted by some in the global Muslim community as clear evidence that the West is prejudice against them. So, if Muslims find this manifesto offensive, how will the British and American press report on it?

The Reston, VA-based The Media Center at the American Press Institute has morphed its blog, Morph, into a collaborative project that invites all to participate in various conversations about the hottest topics in the rapidly evolving world of new media. The blog is divided into six sections, each led by movers and shakers of the industry, and focused on keeping the discussion lively leading up to and after the We Media Global Forum which will take place in London on May 3 and 4, 2006.   

Three cartoonists, Dilem (Ali Dilem) of Algeria’s daily newspaper Liberty, Cabu (Jean Cabu) of France’s Charlie Hebdo and Le Canard Enchainé (both political satire weeklies) and Iran’s Nikahang Kowsar have answered questions about their own perspectives on the Mohammed cartoons and freedom of expression.

Each cartoonist has a different perspective. Dilem asserts that people should be "allowed to make cartoons of everything", while simultaneously stating that he understands how a cartoon depicting Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb has shocked some people. Kowsar criticizes the publication of the cartoons, stating: "I am critical of what they did: when you do something that you know will create hatred and annoy people who are a minority in Europe, this can be very insensitive." Finally, Cabu defends the publication of the cartoons, asserting that Nikahansuch actions are protected by freedom of expression and freedom of the press.