The Berkman Center plans on relaunching Media Cloud, a platform that shows the trending topics of journalism, reported Ethan Zuckerman. 50,000 English-language articles a day are used to pick up on the top words. It will chart what the media is paying attention to and focusing on the most.

Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas announced that reports show violence in the Latin American press is still a major issue. It is the second most lethal area in the world for journalists. 31 journalists were killed in 2010 alone.

Be careful what you say online... Twitter can be dangerous for tweeters unwilling to edit. Both celebrities and journalists have suffered and even lost their jobs from impulsive tweets. Slate's Jack Shafer delves into what gets people in trouble.

Expansion is in the air. The Guardian and Mail Online have been expanding into the US market for the past year, and the Huffington Post recently announced its expansion plans in the UK. Joining these publications, Forbes will soon launch a European edition of its magazine, reported the Guardian. The publication will be available bi-weekly in 11 countries. A European version of the site is already up and running.

Its first print run will be 20,000 English-version copies, which will be distributed to business executives. Copies will also be available on newsstands from around €5 to €7, with prices varying in different countries. 25 to 30 Europe-based contributors will be hired for the venture.

Forbes was among the first media companies to focus on digital media. As a result, the company's digital portion has been profitable since 2000. It currently boasts a 50:50 profit. With 20 million visitors a month, around 2 million are in Europe, according to Journalism.co.uk.

The number of women reading newspapers has steadily grown over the years. They have become "the fastest-growing, most advertised attractive audience in town." A study from ComScore noted, "They're embracing the internet in a way that men are not." A new survey by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that they also make up the majority of readers for 8 out of the top 25 news sites.

The 8 websites are (in order from highest percentage to lowest) Topix, Aol News, Examiner.com, Bing News, Yahoo, MSNBC, ABC News, and Huffington Post. Poynter posted a chart of the numbers here.

Many of the top sites like Aol News, Bing, and Yahoo are multi-service providers. Also at the top were local news aggregators Topix and Examiner.com. Topix had the highest different in percentages, at 56.2 percent female and 43.8 percent male readership. Business sites, such as Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, tended to be more male-dominated. The sites received 63.7% and 60.9% male readership respectively.

Longreads has gone a long way during its two-year history. It began as a Twitter profile and got a website only last October. Now, Longreads is making further use of its active community of 23,000 Twitter followers, TechCrunch reported.

The service posts links to new, long articles and stories (typically between 1,500 and 30,000 words) every day, making it easy to find substantial reading. The site's new area, "Community Picks," features most tweeted about Longreads articles. This adds a new way to finding reading material, as previously Longreads's suggestions were picked by editors.

#longreads hashtag, which readers use to suggest articles, is now also used for creating member profiles. All the #longreads links a member has tweeted show up on a profile page, making it possible to observe what others are reading.

"We hope to feature these individual tastes and continue to serve as a discovery engine for great storytelling and outstanding curators," Mark Armstrong, Longreads founder, said.

WAN-IFRA is hosting its third international conference on newspaper and magazine design next Thursday, 19 May, in Paris.

Whether in print, on the web or any other digital platform, newspaper design can give added value to editorial content. The objective of this conference is to show to participants "best practices" in creativity, originality, but also efficiency.

Topics include:
- Digital design
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- Show more than tell
- Best practices in Iberian newspapers design

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Guardian's Roy Greenslade reported that the Middleton family raised a complaint to the PCC over some five year old pictures showing Prince William's wife Kate, her sister Pippa and their mother wearing bikini, published by two Sunday newspapers - the Mail on Sunday and News of the World. "They are expected to argue that publication of these five-year-old images breaches the editors' code of practice by invading the privacy of the Middleton daughters and their mother", the article said.

According to AP (via ABC News) Israel's Communications Ministry says Israel's Arab minority will soon have its own Arabic language TV station for the first time. The ministry recently granted the station the first license for an independent Arab broadcaster. The ministry said Sunday that Hala TV will begin broadcasting in about three months.

Frédéric Filloux's Monday Note reflected on lessons that could be learned from coverage of Bin Laden's death, which has become a new reference point.

The UK Press Complaints Commission is seeking to bring journalistic Twitter feeds under its regulation, the Guardian reported

The article noted that while the PCC is currently unable to rule on complaints about newspapers' tweets, it is trying to consolidate social media messages under its remit and has started consultation with the newspapers industry to this end.

Some postings on Twitter should be considered - in PCC's opinion- as part of a "newspaper's editorial product" and should go under the regulation of the code of practice.

The plan, however, the Guardian said, is to distinguish between newspapers' accounts, professional journalistic accounts and private tweets. "Some journalists - such as the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones - already maintain multiple accounts in an effort to preserve professional and personal distinctions", the article noted.

The article also reported that a PCC online working group has already recommended that the body undertake a "remit extension", the formal mechanism by which the self-regulatory body takes on a new area of responsibility, after consulting with the newspaper industry as to how Twitter regulation can be implemented.
"That consultation is due to finish in the summer and the new rules are likely to be in place by the end of the year."

As already noted, the news of Osama Bin Laden's death, which has filled newspapers pages and monopolized every news stream, first spread onTwitter. Not only the first credible feedback came from a tweet by Keith Urbahn, chief of staff for former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, but also the first feedback of any kind came from an IT consultant who lives close to Abbottabad, where the raid took place, and who live-tweeted the attack, even without knowing it.

Some then praised the role Twitter played, wondering if it could ever come to replace traditional media.

Dan Mitchell on the SF Weekly blog, addressing the issue, argued that "no, Twitter hasn't replaced CNN". With no intent of diminishing the role it played of what he called "the best real-time headline service yet invented and a place to come across news I wouldn't otherwise see", he however questioned if this could be called "citizen journalism".

The Daily Telegraph launched today an updated version of its iPad app, Financial Times reported. The new edition of The Telegraph for the iPad can be downloaded for a one-off fee of £1.19 or as part of a monthly subscription, priced at £9.99. The previous version of the app, launched last September, was free.

The app's new features include interactive crosswords, picture galleries and a seven-day archive of the paper's cartoons. Also added is the possibility to increase text size by "pinching", a 30-day archive of back issues and a night-reading mode.

The launch follows yesterday's news concerning Apple's deal with Hearst Corp, which saw the iPad manufacturer take a more flexible stance than before as regards its App Store terms. Financial Times's Tech Hub reported that Edward Roussel, The Telegraph's digital editor, described Apple as "co-operative and helpful" during the development of the app.

After Time Inc. and Hearst, the Daily Telegraph has become the latest news publisher to sign up to Apple's terms on digital subscriptions with its new iPad app. The Guardian reported that the app is free to download but charges readers £1.19 for a single edition, or £9.99 for a monthly subscription. Telegraph newspaper subscribers get full access to its iPad edition for free.

Which papers have the best chance of being around in ten years? Business Insider listed its picks.

The Guardian is 190 years old. Born on 5 May 1821 as the Manchester Guardian, the paper celebrates its long life during which it has essentially changed neither its ownership nor its character, it declared.

As the battle between native and web apps rages on, newspapers and magazines wanting to expand to digital publishing have to make some tough decisions. Fortune seems to have faith in web apps, as the magazine launches today, May 5th, its web app Fortune500+, AdAge reported. At first, the app will run on computers only but will soon work on tablet browsers as well.

The appeal of web apps is easy to understand: unlike native apps, built for a single platform, web apps work cross-platform as they run inside the web browser. Opting for a web app, thus, makes it possible to reach the maximum number of readers with only one version of the app.

AdAge's article notes that the list of web apps is growing, albeit slowly. Although many magazines have chosen to publish exclusively for the iPad, few have so far developed web apps. "I think you'll see that more and more apps will go this way," said Daniel Roth, managing editor at Fortune.com. Despite the slow pace, HTML5 powered web publishing seems to be gathering momentum, the people behind OnSwipe, for example, being very strongly in favour of web apps.