http://www.editorsweblog.org/ en Copyright 2010 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:39:51 +0100 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The Guardian Media Group (GMG) today sold its regional media business to Trinity Mirror in a £44.8 million deal, it was widely reported. Of the price, £7.4 million comes in cash and Trinity Mirror is releasing GMG from a £37.4 million print contract.

The deal is due to be completed by March 28. The Guardian, which was previously known as the Manchester Guardian before moving its main office to London in the 1960s, will still have a Manchester-based reporter.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/trinity_mirror_buys_guardians_regional_b.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/trinity_mirror_buys_guardians_regional_b.php Newspaper Guardian sale Trinity Mirror Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:39:51 +0100 Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have extensively studied The New York Times list of most e-mailed articles, checking every 15 minutes for more than six months, analyzing the content of thousands of articles, and controlling for factors like the placement in the paper or on the Web home page, The New York Times reports.

Results from the study show that NYTimes readers have exalted tastes - seeking to inspire awe in their friends, colleagues, and family by choosing to e-mail positive articles over negative ones, and long, intellectually challenging articles over short and shocking ones.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/study_looks_into_what_news_articles_peop.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/study_looks_into_what_news_articles_peop.php Newspaper Web 2.0 digital editions editorial quality Facebook Google multimedia New York Times newspaper readership Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:14:53 +0100 All reporters at the Journal-Register Co. (JRC) will get video cameras, under an ambitious plan to bring the newspaper into the digital age, the company's 3,100 employees have been told. The company's new CEO John Paton has also told staff that they now work for a 'media company', not a 'newspaper company'. Appropriately enough, he announced the news in a seven-minute slideshow, emailed companywide, the New Haven Independent reports.

"We're not looking to make any cuts," Paton told the Independent. "We need to improve [local coverage]. We don't need to make it worse." The company, which runs 19 daily and 150 other newspapers, including the flagship New Haven Register, filed for bankruptcy last February.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/video_cameras_for_reporters_as_newspaper.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/video_cameras_for_reporters_as_newspaper.php Multimedia Web 2.0 blogs communities multimedia video Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:15:18 +0100 Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger told Reuters that "if we get the right functionality and design," the iPad could "produce interesting, significant revenue streams," according to PaidContent.

Because developing an application for the iPad will not require any different skills from the ones required to launch an iPhone app, news publishers that have had success with iPhone apps, are now looking to cash in on the iPad.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/guardians_rusbridger_ipad_could_produce.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/guardians_rusbridger_ipad_could_produce.php Multimedia Newspaper business models e-reader Guardian innovation iphone mobile technology multimedia News Corp paid online content paywall redesign revenue subscriptions Times Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:09:56 +0100 The free weekly newspaper in Edinburgh will relaunch next week with a greater focus on shopping and local listings, All Media Scotland reports.

The new-look Edinburgh Herald & Post, produced by The Scotsman's publishers, is expected to focus on the shopping and services sector in the city with consumer news and features. It will also include local listings and a picture gallery to focus on community events. The newspaper will be distributed free to households across Edinburgh from Thursday.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/scotland_edinburgh_herald_post_relaunche.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/scotland_edinburgh_herald_post_relaunche.php Newspaper launch newspaper Scotland Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:18:50 +0100 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 ]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/smartphone_sales_soar_in_2009.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/smartphone_sales_soar_in_2009.php Multimedia Apple business models design Guardian innovation iphone Le Figaro multimedia newspaper paid online content paywall revenue Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:50:08 +0100 Press Gazette reports.

Meetings of the local authorities are attended by a reporter from the Manchester Evening News (MEN) or one of its sister weekly publications. Reporters then use Twitter to file updates minute-by-minute. Their updates are then streamed on MEN websites using CoverItLive technology, which allows liveblogging and other forms of real-time updating.

The MEN has so far used this to report on meetings of the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities and the Greater Manchester Police Authority. The newspaper wants to extend the service so that it can cover every full meeting held by ten local authorities across Greater Manchester.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2010/02/local_newspaper_liveblogs_local_council.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2010/02/local_newspaper_liveblogs_local_council.php Multimedia Newspaper Web 2.0 blogs innovation newspaper newspapers and democracy Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:12:05 +0100 Press Association, the national news agency in the UK, will send its largest-ever Winter Olympics team to this month's games in Vancouver, Hold the Front Page reports.

PA Sport sent two reporters to the last winter Games in Turin in 2006, but will send 13 this time, including, for the first time, two video journalists.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/02/uk_more_press_association_reporters_to_c.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/02/uk_more_press_association_reporters_to_c.php Newsrooms and Journalism news agency Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:49:10 +0100 The MediaNews Group has released details of its plans to charge for content online, announced in November last year, Bloomberg reports. The publisher will adopt a metered system similar to that planned at The New York Times.

Two newspapers, the Daily Record in York, Pennsylvania, and the Enterprise-Record in Chico, California, will start charging in May. They will give users access to up to 25 'premium' articles a month, after which they will be required to pay a fee. Print subscriptions will include access to the website. Premium content may include some columns and investigative reporting, MediaNews president Joseph Lodovic said.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/medianews_group_to_adopt_metered_paywall.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/medianews_group_to_adopt_metered_paywall.php Multimedia Newspaper bankruptcy business models Guardian paid online content paywall Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:48:58 +0100 Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter has announced that it will cut between 100 and 120 jobs after sustaining multi-million euro losses, The Local reports. This amounts to almost one sixth of the newspaper's workforce.

The company employs 580 people, with half of these in the newsroom. Most of the cuts are expected to affect editorial staff, with more than a third of these set to go.

The newspaper reported losses of 97 million kronor, or around €10 million, last year. Despite this, union official Hans Arbman said that the cuts were unexpected.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/02/jobs_to_go_at_swedish_daily.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/02/jobs_to_go_at_swedish_daily.php Newspaper Newsrooms and Journalism cutbacks job cuts Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:08:00 +0100 Political Management master's degree program at the George Washington University surveyed 371 print and web journalists from September to October of last year, with the aim of establishing to what extent social media tools are used in the research and distribution of articles.

The results of the online survey, reported on the university's newspaper website, found that 56 percent of those surveyed said that social media was important or somewhat important for reporting and producing stories, with the overwhelming majority citing the internet as the starting point for their research- despite the fact that 84 percent said news and information delivered via social media was slightly less or much less reliable than news delivered via traditional media. ]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/survey_finds_majority_of_journalists_use.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/survey_finds_majority_of_journalists_use.php Multimedia Newspaper Facebook student newspapers Twitter Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:42:45 +0100 German publisher Axel Springer has made good on its promises and put up online paywalls for two of its German newspapers, Paid Content reports.

Two of its newspapers, the Berliner Morgenpost and the Hamburger Abendblatt, are now charging for online content. It now costs €4.95 a month for access to all content on morgenpost.de. By contrast, abendblatt.de has a mixture of free and premium content, with a premium subscription priced at €7.95 a month. It appears to charge extra for content specific to the Hamburg region while providing national news for free. Subscriptions for both sites are renewed on a monthly basis.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/german_news_websites_put_up_paywalls.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/german_news_websites_put_up_paywalls.php Multimedia iphone paid online content paywall subscriptions Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:40:11 +0100 Non-profit investigative journalism outfit ProPublica is taking advantage of the Super Bowl to dig into the fundraising efforts of politicians, Poynter Online reports.

Reporter Marcus Stern planned to use the football game, held yesterday, to spot members of Congress who were attending and figure out how they obtained their tickets. But since he knew that trying to contact 535 members of Congress would be too big a task for one person, he turned the investigation into a crowdsourcing effort and asked professional journalists and the public to help collaborate.

"To some extent, this is going to be a test of the privacy or the openness of members of Congress when it comes to fundraising," Stern told Poynter Online.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/02/propublica_investigates_politicians_supe.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/02/propublica_investigates_politicians_supe.php Newsrooms and Journalism investigative journalism newspapers and democracy non-profit Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:07:34 +0100 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. ]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/reuters_accused_of_imposing_illegal_pay.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/reuters_accused_of_imposing_illegal_pay.php Multimedia Newspaper cutbacks Reuters Twitter union Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:03:02 +0100 News applications for iPhone have met an undeniable success with French readers, but the task of monetising this through selling content, services and advertising still remains, according to Les Echos.

The director of electronic editions for Libération, Ludovic Blecher, said that the iPhone had revolutionised the consumption of news on mobile platforms. The Libération iPhone app was launched in the autumn, as was that of Le Figaro, and they have been downloaded 400,000 and 600,000 times respectively. "Around 30,000 people open it every day," Blecher said. Figures for Le Monde are even higher: it launched its app in November 2008 and has just reached 1.3 million unique downloads, attracting between 200,000 and 250,000 hits a day.
]]> http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/mobile_news_gains_ground_in_france.php http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/mobile_news_gains_ground_in_france.php Multimedia advertising digital editions iphone mobile technology paid online content revenue Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:48:19 +0100