Reuters: Google predicts growth in online video ads

Reuters reports from its Global Media Summit in New York:

“The one big shift in the next three to five years is going to be video advertising,” said Nikesh Arora, president of global sales operations and business development.

Google said it monetised one billion video views a week on YouTube during the third quarter.

Full story at this link…

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#FollowJourn: @baeight/editor

#FollowJourn: Brian Attwood

Who? Editor based in London.

What? Works for The Stage and sends plenty of related links out via his Twitter account.

Where? Brian’s work can be read on The Stage’s website.

Contact? Send him a tweet, via @baeight.

Just as we like to supply you with fresh and innovative tips every day, we’re recommending journalists to follow online too. They might be from any sector of the industry: please send suggestions (you can nominate yourself) to judith or laura at journalism.co.uk; or to @journalismnews.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – running a news meeting

Journalism: Running your first news meeting? Media Helping Media has 50 pointers for how to make it successful, including how to present yourself, how to arrange follow-ups and how to get people to participate. 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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FT.com: Microsoft unlikely to pay users to leave Google

Microsoft’s senior vice-president for online services said the company is not focused on ‘getting non-Google content,’ reports the FT.

Satya Nadella’s comments imply the company would be unlikely to pay newspaper owners and other publishers for removing their content from Google, an idea that had been discussed with News Corp.

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s senior vice-president for online services, refused to comment directly on talks with News Corp, but said that Bing was not looking to get a leg-up on Google by securing preferential access to information. ‘That’s not at all a focus for us,” he said, adding: “We generally are not focused on getting non-Google content.”

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Follow #localmedia hearing online – live

The House of Commons culture, media and sport committee will hear evidence from Matt Brittin, managing director, Google UK and Paul Bradshaw, lecturer in journalism, Birmingham City University this morning (scheduled for 10.30am but there was a problem with the live feed, which is now working). Caroline Beavon (@carolinebeavon) is liveblogging for the Online Journalism Blog.

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Editor&Publisher: Pulitzer relaxes web-only rules for 2010 prizes

The Pulitzer Prizes yesterday announced that even more web-only outlets will be able to compete in its journalism prizes for 2010.

Editor&Publisher reports:

Last year, the Pulitzer Board allowed non-print newsrooms to compete for the first time in the 14 journalism categories, but stipulated they must be ‘primarily dedicated to original news reporting and coverage of ongoing events’. Today’s announcement states that restriction has been lifted.

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#WANIndia2009: Re-inventing the newspaper – Portugal’s i

Over on the main site we’re reporting on how a recently launched Portuguese newspaper, i, is innovating across platforms – targeting breaking news online at social networks; redesigning the traditional print format to four section; and redesigning its newsroom.

The seven-month-old title has shown circulation growth and is attracting previously non-newspaper consumers as readers, says publisher and editor Martim Figueiredo.

Read the full piece on i at this link – here are some photos of a special edition of the paper prepared for the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) conference, to give you an idea of what it looks like:

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New York Times launches ‘Times Skimmer’ after beta trial

The New York Times yesterday released Times Skimmer (http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/), a new application designed to give online readers a similar experience to paging through a newspaper.

In February it launched an ‘article skimmer’ in beta, as reported previously by Journalism.co.uk. Now the finished application is ready for use.

This new version has been enhanced following feedback from beta users, the New York Times said yesterday.

The aim is to make it easier to browse through headlines and discover stories deep within sections of the website, it was explained in a release.

Headlines and short summaries of articles are displayed in a grid layout:

“The application is designed to fit and move for optimal viewing on different screen sizes and browsers. Readers can select from seven different display options to choose the layout that best meets their interests and preferences.

“The fonts displayed in Times Skimmer are the same fonts found in The New York Times newspaper, marking the first time these fonts have been introduced on NYTimes.com.”

It also incorporates a new ‘custom advertising position’ – designed to move seamlessly with the layout and navigation’.

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Changing the cover price on the newsstand

Newspaper vendors feeling the pinch? They might try the tactic of this Rwandan newspaper seller, as spotted by Kigaliwire.com blogger Graham Holliday:

“Do you spot anything a little odd about the cover of my copy of this week’s East African? The weekly normally retails at US$0.75 – around 500Rwf – but with a bit of not so subtle scratching and, magically, the local cover price disappears. I end up buying it for 1,000Rwf. I don’t begrudge these guys their 500Rwf profit, but I might raise the issue the next time I buy my morning paper…”

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Mashable: Journalists maximising the return on investment in social media

Mashable shares examples of five journalists who use social media: “looking at their attitudes and approaches to it, how they fit it into their schedules, and the ROI they got from it”.

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