Reuters: Connecticut papers saved by new investor

Two Connecticut dailies facing closure have been rescued after a new buyer for the titles was found.

Michael Schroeder, owner of Central Connecticut Communications, will buy The Bristol Press and The Herald of New Britain at a time when some media commentators are calling for US state aid to help ailing newspapers.

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GigaOm: User-generated magazine JPG closes down

Magazine that crowd-sourced content shutters as a result of economic downturn.

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Boulder Daily Camera: US judge allows bloggers and Twitter in court

Prosecution argued that real-time coverage of trial of Alex Midette could prejudice case, but Judge Lael Montgomery has given the go ahead for laptops and mobiles to be used in court.

“I think there are other manageable options and less restrictive options than shutting down the flow of information during the trial,” she is reported to have said, adding that jurors and witnesses would be informed not to read news reports about the trial.

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Poynter: Survival guide for journalists

A series from Poynter on ‘what to do before the axe falls’ starting with creating an online presence and backing up your work contacts.

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Newsosaur: Local online advertising’s fatal flaws

Dave Chase, founder of Microsoft’s Sidewalk.com, points out the ‘five fatal flaws’ in local online ad sales, including a revenue side of the operation which does not match the innovation happening in ad production and funding.

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OMNT: Journalists – how to get to know your bloggers

Tips on how to find relevant blogs linked to your patch or community.

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – storing web code

Snipt: Keep little bits of web code handy with Snipt.net. After creating a log-in you can store saved snippets of code under different names and tag them to make them easily accessible. For example, the HTML needed to create something on your blog. Tipster: Judith Townend.

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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Gannett Blog: Gannett launches ‘single monster site’ for 85 newspapers

Gannett has begun its trial of ContentOne – a single website for all its US newspaper titles that can be sold to national and local advertisers.

Most content on the site will be generated by USA Today, while local titles will add the site to their own and rebrand it with local news and info.

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Canadian Association of Journalists: Job cuts impact quality journalism

A news release that claims job cuts by Canadian media owners could lead to ‘our news becoming nothing more than rewritten press releases’.

“The decisions taken this fall will lead to more centralization of news in Canada, fewer opportunities for Canadians to learn from different voices and will threaten the very existence of quality local and investigative reporting,” says Canadian Association of Journalists president Mary Agnes Welch.

The CAJ fears “journalism in Canada is reaching a tipping point where the decline in the quality of news content will lead to an industry death spiral of less content, smaller audiences, and yet more cuts”.

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Slate: How the newspaper industry tried to invent the web (but failed)

An interesting article by Jack Shafer pointing out that some newspaper publishers, at least, tried to anticipate the coming digital storm with their own early attempts at new media innovations.

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