The Telegraph

Earlier this month The Telegraph announced intentions to cut 80 positions as the newspaper moved to share resources with its Sunday operation, The Guardian reported. These layoffs signify a 14 percent reduction in staff, which previously consisted of 550 editorial workers. The redundancies will be met with 50 new “digitally-focused” jobs, resulting in a net loss of about 5 percent. Most of the job losses will come from The Sunday Telegraph rather than the weekday operation.

Chief Executive Murdoch MacLennan said the merger shows the newspaper’s digital-first ambitions, solidified with an £8 million investment “to complete our transition to a digital business,” according to The Guardian.

The Independent

In February Managing Director Andrew Mullins declared the Levedev titles’ intentions “to become one of the very first truly integrated multimedia companies, publishing continuously on print, TV and other digital platforms.” He said that its soon-to-be-launched local TV channel London Live will share journalistic resources with other titles, according to MediaGuardian.

"This deal was years in the making," Founder and CEO Shafqat Islam told Business Insider. "And I think its a big statement that content marketing as a category has really evolved when large and mainstream publishers, and The New York Times is among the largest most reputable ones, are actually looking at software partners like NewsCred to help them figure out that space." 

Founded in 2008, NewsCred uses both algorithms and an editorial staff of 8 to aggregate content for clients including Pepsi and Toyota. While marketers comprise 50 percent of the company’s business, Islam told paidContent that the company’s mission focuses chiefly on publishers, including partners CNN, Al-Jazeera and The Guardian. Other news organizations are clients, such as The New York Daily News, which relies on NewsCred-licensed content to fill its South Asian section.

A ‘dossier’ signaling an imminent ‘coup’ from that ‘incestuous […] quasi-masonic nexus’, the ‘Left’s old boy network’; it could only really be one UK newspaper, couldn’t it. Never one for sending its cavalry round the flank, today’s Daily Mail charges headlong into the boggy mire of the Leveson battlefield, bayonets fixed and ready for a scrap. Over the course of its front page, five subsequent double-page spreads and its main leader column, the paper marshals a typically uncompromising thesis of corruption, cronyism and general left-wing Establishment conspiracy which, it fears, threatens to inveigle the otherwise irreproachable Lord Leveson’s august inquiry down the path of unrighteousness, imperiling freedom of the press and the world as we know it. Or something like that.

Journalism is undergoing the most profound changes since Gutenberg’s printing press, said Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, a paper which has seen significant digital growth and now has a digital audience close to 15 times larger than its print one.

Now anyone can publish, and we must not fight that trend, rather, we must face up to it and establish what we as journalists can do better, he said. Rusbridger was speaking at the Paris-based Sciences Po university on 7 September.

“What is journalism? What is the difference between what these people can produce and what we can?”

Many journalists are reluctant to consider contributions from readers or bloggers as serious competition, Rusbridger said, but it is dangerous to be in denial about how the publishing world is changing, he stressed. It is not just individuals who are contributing to the media landscape: from NGOs to supermarkets, from opera houses to TV stations – all are becoming online media suppliers.

The power of a media organisation is to be able to harness the intelligence of the web: you can tap into this by being part of the web, rather than just on the web, he said. “You can be more powerful if instead of ignoring other people, you bring them into what you're doing,” he continued.