MediaGuardian: New Statesman invests in unofficial Labour blog LabourHome
New Statesman co-owner Mike Danson has invested a five-figure sum in the unofficial party blog LabourHome. Full story...Tags: LabourHome, Mike Danson, New Statesman
Tags: LabourHome, Mike Danson, New Statesman
Official Google Blog: Google launches Wikipedia rival Knol
Knols will be individual article pages with multiple authors, who will put their name to the content. Multiple Knols can exist for one topic. A partnership with the New Yorker will allow users to add cartoons from the magazine's archive to Knols. Full story...Tags: Knol, the New Yorker
Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk
July 25th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by John Thompson in Journalism, Top tips for journalists, freelance
Freelance pitching: Don't use a one-size-fits-all approach. Take time to research a publication before making contact and tailor your approach to its style and readers. It's obvious if you're just firing off emails to anyone you can think of. Tipster: Tom Stainer
Got a tip? Submit it here - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. Full story...Tags: Tom Stainer
Huffington Post introduces ‘Big News Pages’
The Huffington Post has created its own version of the BBC’s topic pages - HuffPost Big News Pages.
The pages will aggregate a mixture of HuffPost content alongside Digg and del.icio.us links, posts from other bloggers and relevant Twitter conversations.
There are 75 so far, but more will be added to meet reader demand, the site says.
Tags: BBC, Huffington PostEveryBlock teams up with the Chicago Tribune
EveryBlock, the local news and data aggregation service, has gone into a beta partnership with the Chicago Tribune.
The paper will publish a map and local news articles powered by EveryBlock, an announcement on the site’s blog says. Articles from the last 48 hours will be plotted on the Trib map to allow users to search geographically.
“[I]t’s an experiment in a new form of news dissemination - that is, news filtered at the block level - and journalists can look to us for inspiration in new forms of publishing information. Second, we unearth a lot of government data that journalists might be interested in researching further,” EveryBlock founder Adrian Holovaty said in an interview with Journalism.co.uk.
Tags: Adrian Holovaty, Chicago TribuneGiles Coren moves his rant onto Twitter…
First it was fellow reviewer Feargus O’Sullivan, then it was The Times’ subbing team that felt the wrath of food critic Giles Coren (thanks to MediaMonkey for the links).
Now someone doing a good impression of the writer has popped up on Twitter to bring Coren’s unique brand of swearing to the microblogging masses.
(For those of you who don’t like bad language, look away now)
Brand Republic: Bauer appoints Marco Nadotti to lead video drive
July 24th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Job appointments, Recruitment, Video, magazines
The magazine publisher has appointed Nadotti to the newly-created role of head of video acquisition and syndication.
Nadotti, who previously worked for video search engine Blinkx, will take up his new role on August 1. Full story...Tags: blinkx, Management Change, Nadotti, Video search engine
Press Gazette: Associated win battle with cybersquatter over domain name
Associated Newspapers has won its case against a cybersquatter, who was using the domain name www.scottishdailymail.co.uk. As a result of the case Associated now have ownership of the web address, which was being used as a listings site including links to its competitors. Full story...Tags: associated newspapers, listings site, web address
Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk
Freelancing: If you're going to deliver late (move heaven and earth to avoid it), tell your client as soon as possible. It's easier for them to deal with a problem in advance than at the last minute. They'll be pissed off, but not as much! Tipster: Tom Stainer Got a tip? Submit it here - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. Full story...Tags: Tom Stainer
First video ’splash’ for Telegraph.co.uk
An update to Twitter from Telegraph.co.uk communities editor Shane Richmond suggests the paper is breaking more new ground with its videojournalism.
News of the sentencing of John Darwin, who faked his own disappearance in 2002, and his wife Anne was broken on the site using the video below:
