Swedish Media Group Bonnier is experimenting with a new design for magazines, based around a touchscreen Kindle/iPhone-type device, reports Bobbie Johnson in this post.
The design team behind the project have tried to keep elements of print magazine reading that readers want, while abandoning some design features commonly used when creating digital editions of print products, such as page-turning technology.
Tags: Bonnier, Sweden
#FollowJourn: Ed Bowsher
Who? Financial journalist.
What? Head of consumer finance for lovemoney.com. He was launch editor for the site when it went live in February this year and has previously worked for The Motley Fool.
Where? Follow his lovemoney blog at http://www.lovemoney.com/blog/edbowsher.aspx.
Contact? @edbowsher.
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.
Tags: #followjourn, Ed Bowsher
Freelance: Take a look at our special forum section on freelancers and tax for advice and answers to your questions from experts in the field. Tipster: Laura Oliver.
To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.
Tags: tax
Alexander Lebedev, the Russian owner of the London Evening Standard, has resumed talks with Independent News & Media (INM) about buying its UK national newspapers.
According to FT sources, the discussion has been restated after it was initially put on hold over the summer while INM focused on restructuring its £1.2 billion debt.
Tags: Alexander Lebedev, Independent, Independent News & Media
Google will buy local business reviews site Yelp for at least $500 million, according to TechCrunch.
The search giant is already building a directory of local businesses with its Place Pages, which makes use of its maps and local search tools. Yelp already has data on this and ratings and reviews of local businesses from users.
As media blogger and author Jeff Jarvis points out via Twitter, Google can strengthen its positioning in the local advertising market and has spotted an opportunity in online communities around local business that other media, including newspapers, may have missed.
Tags: google, local and regional media, yelp
It’s Listmas time, time for us media commentating types to predict what the future might hold for the industry. Not content with a top 10, Folio has 115 predictions for the media and magazine industry from top US-based media executives.
Accelerating competition for magazines on new technology platforms and realising that the magazine is only one product within a brand are popular choices in this list looking at what forces will be shaping the industry next year.
Tags: Folio
Fascinating videos from the New York Times exploring where geographically-speaking traffic to its website comes from and what kinds of devices are being used to access it.
Explains Nick Bilton on the NYTimes’ Bits Blog:
The top video represents readers coming to the website from the United States. The second video shows a map of our global readers. The circles indicate two things. First, the yellow circles represent readers coming to the main website from desktop or laptop computers, and the orange circles indicate readers using mobile phones to access our mobile site. Second, the size of the circles represents the number of readers at that moment in time. You can see the corresponding time stamp in the upper left corner of the videos.
The videos show the traffic patterns for 25 June 2009 – the day news broke of Michael Jackson’s death:
The New York Times site traffic, US, June 25, 2009 from Nick Bilton on Vimeo.
The New York Times site traffic, World View, June 25, 2009 from Nick Bilton on Vimeo.
Tags: New York Times, us
The Columbia Journalism Review takes a look at the [US] legality of reproducing leaked emails, following the publication of thousands of hacked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. Some critical comments about the American coverage of the incident underneath the article, too: Full post at this link…
Tags: climate change, Columbia Journalism Review, hacked emails, university of east anglia
Mashable has announced its winners for the Open Web Award Winners for 2009 this week. Here are the successful online publishers in the media category (all nominated and voted for through social media):
Tags: mashable, open web awards 2009
Steve Buttry attempts to start the “difficult but important job” of answering this question: “How do we need to work differently to command the attention of those people reading and tapping small screens?”
Tags: Mobile, Newspapers, steve buttry
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