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The Kyiv Post website is undergoing a redesign scheduled to be launched on September 7. The new site will incorporate online news resources and will contain all the content of the print edition.


Brian Bonner, chief editor of the Kyiv Post, said that the redesigned site will contain more news and content than is possible in the print version.

Bonner went on to report that Kyiv Post readers can expect a redesigned print copy of the newspaper this month. It will contain more pages for news and entertainment coverage, a separate employment section containing tips for both employees and employers.

Source: Kyiv Post via IFRA Executive News

Sun-Times News Group reports a deal with social media firm Pluck which will offer readers discussion forums blogs, photo and video sharing as well as other community tools on SunTimes.com, PioneerLocal.com, SuburbanChicagoNews.com, SouthtownStar.com and Post-Trib.com. The venture is meant to increase audience interactivity, according to Catherine Lanucha, the group's director of content.

Google is dropping a section of the licensing agreement for the new Chrome browser after complaints.

Google reported yesterday that it is removing the section that gave the company, "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through" the new browser.

Shortly after Chrome was launched users raised concerns about the language in the copyright. Some critics said the language would allow Google to use any Web content displayed in Chrome without copyright permission.

Google has indicated that this is a misunderstanding, and that it simply borrowed language from other products, "in order to keep things simple for our users," when it inserted the copyright provision in the Chrome license.

Source: PC World

Since 2004, the number of new, "citizen-generated" media and reporters at the US political conventions has significantly increased. It has become more difficult to differentiate between independent bloggers and traditional ones as traditional media is adopting a "multi-platform" method, according to Media Shift's Mark Glaser.

Reuters announces that it is spreading out its mobile journalism to include coverage of the US political conventions, so that the event is captured from "the ground up" and through "unique perspectives" reports Journalism.co.uk.

The Press Association has undergone a senior management restructuring to reposition the agency for its increasingly digital future.

PA's focus today is as much about video as photographs and text, and the company needs to position itself as a versatile producer of content of all forms.

Tony Watson, the former Yorkshire Post editor who was promoted from his editor-in-chief role on Tuesday, said that while text, pictures and listings would remain a core function of PA, it expects customers to require more digital content in the future.

He told the Press Gazette in an interview: "Text and photos are still very much part of our proposition. But with the advent of broadband and the huge public uptake means the possibilities of online are so much greater than they were only a few years ago.

"You used to watch a video online, go away and make a cup of tea whilst it loaded. But it is so high-quality now that it's opened the possibility of integrating text, photos and video in a way that tells a story in the best possible way. It's not either/or, it's all of those things."

PA has hired three consultants as part of a government-backed knowledge transfer partnership with the London College of Communications; a two-year project to find commercial opportunities for original story-telling methods for the agency.

Source: Press Gazette

Los Angeles Times writer James Rainey questions whether blogging sites like The Huffington Post would ever have original reporting instead of being solely a news aggregator focusing on the political left with the occasional scoop or two.

The site offers content on presidential candidates and a variety of comments ranging from the banal to the provocative, but it is still newspapers and other news organizations that do "heavy excavation" and provide investigative reports on secret terrorist prisons, illegal wireapping and other controversial state activities.

TechPresident.com's Joshua Levy said that investigative or educational journalism "takes lots of time and reporting and lots of resources."

"The real question is who is going to be paying for all of this work," said Arianna Huffington, the site's founder. "Where is the advertising and how quickly does it move online and how quickly do the rates increase. That is going to be key for all of us."

Source: The Los Angeles Times

The Daily Post, a Trinity Mirror newspaper, has launched its first Welsh language news website in North Wales.

The Welsh language site, dailypostcymraeg.co.uk, will sit alongside the English language version - dailypost.co.uk - with both providing regular news updates for the region.

The new site has been developed as an additional service by the publisher to showcase Welsh language content, rather than just duplicating the existing English site.

dailypostcymraeg.co.uk will include videos with Welsh language commentaries and interviews, Welsh language forums, and Welsh comments and blogs.

Source: The Guardian

Lippo Group, a substantial Indonesian conglomerate, announces the launch of The Jakarta Globe, an English language daily newspaper that will be available both in print and online.

Bhimanto Suwastoyo, who worked with the AFP for over 20 years, is to be the paper's deputy editor. The editorial team also includes Ahmad Pathoni, who previously held senior positions at both AFP and Reuters, and A. Lin Neumann, former executive editor of the Hong Kong Standard and editor-in-chief of South Korean daily JoongAng.

The Globe will be released in the next two months and will be aimed at both Indonesians and expatriates. It will receive funding through advertisements and subscriptions.

The paper intends to be in competition with The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's prominent English-language paper.

Source: Brand Republic

User comments on websites has become standard fare for most media organizations. But according to the Poynter Institute's Bob Steele and Kelly McBride, who spoke at the Unity: Journalists of Colour Convention, news organizations must make it easy and inviting for users to comment, otherwise they may inhibit the discourse they purport to initiate.

Editor and Publisher looked into the matter in order to see the mechanisms that newspaper sites were employing when dealing with user-generated content and found a range of methods.

The research found:

-All of the top 10 US newspaper websites reviewed have mechanisms to monitor the content, be it screening comments or urging users to report offences
-Some sites require registration
-Some sites preview comments prior to their publication
-Some used both

According to Editor and Publisher, the most "liberal" policy about user's posts is from the Wall Street Journal, since neither registration or moderation are used and readers are pushed to self-police and report offences.

The Los Angeles Times had the "most stringent" and "severely worded" rules that referred to discrimination, false advertising and interrupted online access:

WARNING: A VIOLATION OF THESE POSTING RULES MAY BE REFERRED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.

This is exactly the kind of unappealing, and threatening phrase that Poynter's Steel and McBride warned against, saying that they could be perceived as "hostile."

Less "threatening" in tone, the Denver Post's Neighbor forum includes the following guidelines:

Think of Neighbors as a neighborhood gathering, where conversation is lively and civil. What's important to you is probably of interest to others - if your neighbors don't know about something, they will appreciate if you share your knowledge. The community and its users will decide what the site becomes, but it is not intended to be a free-for-all.

Retaining more "civility", the New York Daily News writes:

Be nice. Think about others. People often say things on boards that they would be ashamed to say to someone face to face. Please treat other users with respect.

Source: Editor and Publisher

The WashingtonPost.com is experimenting with its coverage for the Republican and Democratic conventions in the US; it is planning to produce seven hours of live video coverage a day.

WashingtonPost.com and Newsweek.com reporters, "using a cutting-edge cell phone application from Comet Technologies, will be some of the first to live-stream video from their cell phones into a live webcast. Reporters will stream convention developments and questions from people directly onto 'Convention '08,' offering audiences a heightened layer of real-time video coverage. In addition, a live discussion platform online below the video screen will give viewers the ability to interact with anchors and guests," according to a press release from the Washington Post.

Jim Brady, the site's executive editor, says of the new coverage, "Not everyone will watch all seven hours of coverage, but we think we'll maintain a steady stream of viewers with some increases around major speeches. In the end, this is an experiment for us, and to experiment on the Web, we've got to be willing to roll the dice and try new things."

Source: Poynter Online

Northcliffe Meida regional dailies like the Nottingham Evening Post, Lincolnshire Echo and South Wales Evening Post have now joined the 48 titles that revamped their thisis site, as the publisher gets closer to transferring all online content on its "Next Generation" platform, reports Holdthefrontpage.co.uk.

"Not only are we upgrading the network to introduce evolutionary design changes and enhanced multimedia content aimed at maximising interaction with end users, but we are also enlarging it to more than 150 sites in total," says Robert Hardie, strategy director of content for Northcliffe Media,
 
A number of the revamped sites have hyperlocal "sub-sites" which present users with news content covering a particular small town or village.

Weeklies from Kent and Sussex joined the redesign. According to Hardie, the "big winners" are users from Kent since they now have 30 sites covering their region, which is a progression for Northcliffe's businesses in Kent and the ones obtained from Trinity Mirror in 2007.

The revamped sites have permanent archives to which around 10,000 articles are added each week.

In addition, searches have been optimized so search engines can drive more traffic to Northcliffe Media websites.

"As journalists get even better at writing SEO (Search Engine Optimization)-targeted headlines and adding specific keywords, the scale of that uplift will continue to grow," Hardie points out.

Source: Hold The Front Page
 

The average time spent per person on nearly half of top 30 US newspaper websites in July 2008 has decreased year-on-year, according to Nielsen Online data.

The figure for the Houston Chronicle increased from 14 minutes to 25 minutes and from 12 minutes to 16 minutes for the San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com. Growth was also seen at NYTimes.com, USAToday.com and the Wall Street Journal website.

The average time spent per person at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution site dropped from 23 minutes to 10 minutes and from 18 minutes to 9 minutes at Boston.com.

From Editor and Publisher, here is a list of average time spent per person in July 2008 on newspaepr sites, ranked by the number of unique visitors per site:

Time per Person (mm:ss) July 2008 vs. July 2007

NYTimes.com -- 32:03 -- 27:21
USATODAY.com -- 16:17 -- 11:48
washingtonpost.com -- 14:31 -- 17:55
LA Times -- 07:39 -- 08:26
Wall Street Journal Online -- 18:28 -- 12:17

New York Post -- 08:13 -- 09:00
Boston.com -- 09:01 -- 18:37
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 16:04 -- 12:17
Daily News Online Edition -- 05:18 -- 05:04
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 09:55 -- 23:09

Ottaway Newspapers -- 03:34 -- 06:13
Chicago Tribune -- 08:11 -- 15:55
Newsday -- 03:29 -- 03:30
International Herald Tribune -- 02:39 -- 01:48
Chicago Sun-Times -- 07:04 -- 06:32

The Houston Chronicle -- 25:21 -- 14:20
Politico -- 06:56 -- 06:14
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News -- 04:50 -- 03:29
NJ.com -- 06:09 -- 08:21
Village Voice Media -- 04:58 -- 04:45

Philly.com -- 05:27 -- 06:58
The San Diego Union-Tribune -- 05:33 -- 04:44
MercuryNews.com -- 03:49 -- 04:32
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 14:48 -- 13:02
Baltimore Sun -- 09:43 -- 10:20

Star Tribune -- 36:39 -- 22:36
Kentucky.com -- 02:02 -- NA
Boston Herald -- 05:35 -- 05:15
The Detroit News -- 09:35 -- 14:09
OregonLive.com -- 04:27 -- 08:46

Source: Editor and Publisher through IFRA Executive News Service

After its parent company Trinity Mirror opted for centalized production and a reduction in editorial staff, the Birmingham Post announces that it will re-launch itself as a Monday to Friday tabloid this autumn, putting more emphasis on business coverage as well as having a mobile site.

"Moving to a new format gives us the opportunity for the print version of the Post to follow the website in attracting a new generation of younger - but no less serious - business readers," said Mark Reeves, the Post's editor.

The latest ABC figures (July 2, 2007 to December 30, 2007) show that the paper has a circulation of 12,997 from Monday to Friday, out of which 3,841 copies are given away. The Saturday edition, which will no longer be published after the re-launch, sold 10,329 copies, 2,289 of which were given away.

Source: Press Gazette, ABC.org

The biennial Pew Research Center has revealed in its report that Yahoo, MSN and CNN are the three most popular web news destinations.

Traditional media brands are still favoured, including the New Yorker, The Atlantic and the BBC, the Pew survey of 3,600 adults found. But only 47% watch TV news on an average day.

Users gave many of the leading mainstream media websites low credibility ratings. Only 6% said the Huffington Post was very highly credible and just 13% said the same of Google News, which aggregates news from mainstream news organisations.

The report presents a picture of a steady decline in the US newspaper industry, with the percentage of Americans who regularly read print titles falling from 58% in 1993 to 34% in 2008.

"For more than a decade, the audiences for most traditional news sources have steadily declined, as the number of people getting news online has surged," said the Pew report.

15% of Americans have a smart phone, such as an iPhone or a Blackberry. More than a third of the owners of these devices (37%) say they get news from their phones.

The report highlights the changing news audiences, describing 13% of the US public as "net newsers" - web users under 35 who read more political blogs than watch national news coverage, rely heavily on web-based news during the day and are interested in technology and technology news.

Net newsers are generally wealthy and 80% are graduates, making them a highly desirable demographic for advertisers.

The research also found that the proportion of young people in the US getting no daily