IHT: Italian newspapers in online advertising alliance

RCS MediaGroup and Gruppo Editoriale l’Espresso will form an online ad consortium, the Premium Publisher Network, co-ordinating ‘performance-related advertising’ (e.g. charges based on traffic stats) for the groups.

Full story at this link…

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StinkyJournalism.org: Do US citizen journalists have to pay gift tax?

Yes – according to StinkyJournalism’s research.

When citizen journalists give content to news sites they are making a gift under IRS guidelines – though only when annual gift is greater than $12,000.

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – mute Twitterers

Twitter: Don’t want to unfollow a contact entirely? How about hitting the snooze button instead using Twittersnooze. You can mute someone’s tweets for between one and 30 days without them ever knowing. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.

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Folio: Ad pages in US magazines fell by 11.7 per cent in 2008

Year-on-year drop of 11.7 per cent, according to figures released by the Publishers Information Bureau.

The same stats suggest only 42 of the 230 magazines monitored posted an increase in ad pages during 2008.

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Silicon Alley Insider: CNBC bans ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ for challenging reporter

Dan Lyons, the blogger behind the ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ blog, has allegedly been banned from appearing on CNBC after calling out one of the channel’s reporters for his coverage of Steve Jobs’ health problems.

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Andy Dickinson: Print organisations must make systems open source

In the second of his new year convictions, journalism lecturer and blogger Andy Dickinson says print organisations must break away from network-wide templates for their newspapers’ websites.

“[I]t hampers attempts to upskill journalists and softens the brands that are supposed to be so valuable,” writes Dickinson.

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MediaGuardian: Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev to buy London Evening Standard

In an exclusive report the Guardian reveals that the oligarch Alexander Lebedev will buy the Evening Standard newspaper - ’in a dramatic move that would see him become the first Russian oligarch to own a major British newspaper,’ the Guardian says. … Full story…

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LA Times: Micropayments – a rainbow for journalism… or a Hail Mary?

The prospect of micropayments for news raises its head once again. This article follows in the wake of David Carr’s piece in the NY Times, ‘Let’s invent an iTunes for news’ which has been neatly debunked by Paul Bradshaw on his Online Journalism Blog.

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Columbia J-school New Media: Podcast on Twitter for journalists

Ninety minute podcast featuring four prominent speakers on the subject of using Twitter in journalism. Download it to your iPod and listen to it on the train! Full story…

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DesMoinesRegister.com: Gannett to make all employees take one week’s leave without pay

US newspaper publisher giant Gannett is to make all non-unionised staff take a one-week unpaid break in the first quarter of this year, in an attempt to minimise redundancies. Full story…

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