Full shortlist of Association of Online Publishers award nominees

The full list of nominees for this year’s AOP awards, which span 16 categories (courtesy of the AOP):

Launch 2008
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk/katine
Hearst digital - allaboutyou.com
IPC Media - Goodtoknow
James Publishing Ltd - World Reviewer
Redwood - www.yourfamily.org.uk
Channel 4/Zone - Channel 4 Food

Editorial Team - Business
Building - Building.co.uk
Centaur Media - thelawyer.com
CNET Networks UK - silicon.com
Dow Jones & Company - eFN.com
Incisive Media - Accountancy Age
Incisive Media - Legalweek.com
Reed Business Information - PersonnelToday.com
Reed Business Information - XpertHR.co.uk

Editorial Team - Consumer 2008
BBC Worldwide - bbcgoodfood.com
Financial Times - FT.com
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk/sport
IPC MEDIA - nme.com
IPC Media - Nuts.co.uk
Sky News - Sky News Online
Trinity Mirror - Gazette Communities

Research & Insights Project 2008
Guardian News & Media - GNM Total Audience
IPC Media - IPC Media for The Origin Panel - Women’s Space
ITV Online - Ad Innovations-Itv.com
Orange UK - Exposure - Orange UK
Reed Business Information - Travolution
Trinity Mirror - ARRON 2007/2008 Digital Audience Research

Online Advertising Sales Team - Consumer 2008
Bauer Media - Bauer Media Digital Sales Team
Channel 4 - Channel 4
Financial Times - FT.com
Future Publishing PLC - Future Publishing - Digital Agency Team
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk Ad Sales Team
Haymarket Consumer Media - whatcar.com
ITV Online - www.itv.com

Online Advertising Sales Team - Business 2008
CMPi - Building Magazine Online Commercial Team
Incisive Media - Accountancy Age Integrated Sales Team
Redactive Media Group - People Management online sales
Reed Business Information - RBI Job Sites
Reed Business Information - RBI e-Newsletters
UBM - BD & Building Virtual Careers

Innovation 2008
Financial Times - Mockingbird Model
Guardian News and Media - Guardian Publisher Network
ITV Online - Interactive Vouchering – Coronation Street and Harveys Furniture Store
Lonely Planet Publications - Lonely Planet Audio Phrasebooks for iPhone (and iPod Touch)
Jobsite (Assoc Northcliffe Digital) - BeMyInterviewer.co.uk
Lulu Enterprises UK - Lulu.com
TSL Education - TES Resource Bank

Cross-Media Project 2008
CMPI - www.thepublican.com/proudofpubs
Guardian News and Media - British Gas Greener Living Partnership
Incisive Media - Young Professional from Accountancy Age
IPC Media - The WKD Nuts Football Awards
Reuters Media - Bearing Witness: Five Years of Reporting War in Iraq
Seven Squared - ASOS ON FACEBOOK
TelecomTV - Mobile Planet
Times Online - Times Archive

Commercial Partnership
Bauer Media - Bauer Media Zoo Royal Marines 2008
Bauer Media - FHM / Nivea for Men Really Useful Guide
Channel 4 New Media - Ford Bite
Financial Times - Financial Times SST Commercial Partnership 2008
Incisive Media - Adviser Academy - IFAonline and JPMorgan
Reed Business Information - New Scientist Visions of the Future with UniversalMcCann for Microsoft
Telegraph Media Group - Telegraph Media Group and Cisco
VideoJug - Microsoft Office 2007 “It’s a new day, It’s a new office” VideoJug Series

Use of Video 2008
BBC - BBC News website
Channel 4 - Embarrassing Bodies
Financial Times - FT.com
Guardian News and Media - Zimbabwe election: The stolen ballots
IPC Media - NME.COM Video
News Group Newspapers - Sun TV
TelecomTV - TelecomTV
Telegraph Media Group - Telegraph TV

Mobile Site 2008
Brownbook Limited - Brownbook.net
Channel 4 - Big Art Mob
CondéNet UK - Glamour Mobile
CondéNet UK - GQ Mobile
Lonely Planet Publications - Lonely Planet m-site
News Group Newspapers - Sun Mobile

Online Community 2008
National Magazine Company - www.runnersworld.co.uk
News Group Newspapers - My Sun
Reed Business Information - Farmers Weekly Interactive
The National Magazine Co - www.babyexpert.com

Website 2008 - Business
Dow Jones & Company - eFN.com
Faversham House Group Ltd - www.edie.net
MarketClusters Ltd - StrategyEye
Reed Business Information - Hairdressers Journal Interactive
Reed Business Information - XpertHR.co.uk
Reed Business Information - Bankersalmanac.com
Reed Business Information - Farmers Weekly Interactive
TSL Education - www.tes.co.uk

Website 2008 - Consumer
Associated Newspapers Ltd - Mail Online
BSkyB - Sky News
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk
IPC Media - marieclaire.co.uk
IPC Media - nme.com
National Magazines Company - youandyourwedding.co.uk
News Group Newspapers - Sun Online
VideoJug - www.videojug.com

Online Publisher 2008 - Business
Dow Jones & Company - eFN.com
E-consultancy.com - E-consultancy.com
Reed Business Information - Reed Business Information
RICS - RICS
TSL Education - TSL Education
Wildfire Communications - Wildfire Communications Ltd

Online Publisher 2008 - Consumer
Associated Newspapers Ltd - Associated Northcliffe Digital
BSkyB - BSkyB
Hearst digital - Hearst digital
IPC Media - IPC Media
Microsoft - MSN UK
News Group Newspapers - Sun Online
Telegraph Media Group - Telegraph Media Group

Tags: Associated Newspapers Ltd, BBC Worldwide, Building Magazine, CNET Networks, Dow Jones & Company, Farmers' Weekly, Financial Times, Hairdressers Journal, My Sun, National Magazine, National Magazines Company, Nuts.co.uk, Online Commercial Team, online publisher, online sales, reuters, Sky News, Telegraph Media Group, Trinity Mirror, XpertHR.co.uk

Dow Jones: RBI buyer to be announced by October, says Reed Elsevier

A buyer for Reed Elsevier's B2B publishing arm RBI is expected to be announced in October, a memo from Marianne van Leeuwen, the chief executive of Reed's Dutch operations, has said. Full story...

Tags: business to business, Marianne van Leeuwen, RBI, Reed Business Information, Reed Elsevier

Online Journalism Scandinavia: Norway’s Journalisten - a role model for UK journalism trade titles?

Kristine Lowe asks, is there a business model in covering the media for the media?:

(Disclaimer: Kristine works part-time for the Norwegian journalism magazine and website Journalisten and has previously contributed to Press Gazette and NA24 Propaganda)

Recording the miserable state of our industry, and listening to experts predicting its imminent death, is a daily plight for media hacks in the western hemisphere.

Newspaper readership for one seems to be in perpetual decline, a fact often bemoaned by the media columnist.

However, a recent article in MediaGuardian by former Press Gazette editor Ian Reeves suggests that the UK’s journalism trade titles, such as the National Union of Journalists’ (NUJ) The Journalist magazine and Press Gazette, are faced with an audience of hacks, who have lost the appetite for news about their own.

“You’ll never make money out of journalists,” Reeves quotes Haymarket’s Michael Heseltine as saying.

Yet that is exactly what the Norwegian equivalent of The Journalist does.

Journalisten.no recorded £1.4 million in revenues in 2007, despite competition from Kampanje (Campaign) - a trade magazine that also covers PR and marketing; NA24 Propaganda - a dedicated media news site; and the media sections of national and regional newspapers.

Roughly £800,000 of this came from advertising and £300,000 from subscriptions, leaving the magazine and news site, which are published by The Norwegian Union of Journalists (NJ), with a post-tax profit of £104,000.

Hardly enough for the hardened business world, but more than enough to justify the existence and further expansion of a ‘local newspaper’ for the country’s journalists.

The news site had 11,000 unique Norwegian-based visitors last week, while the main benefactors of the bi-weekly magazine are around 10,000 union members, who receive it as part of their union membership.

Other than union members, the magazine does have about 1,000 subscribers in the corporate and NGO sector, but not much has been done to market it to a broader audience recently.

The key to Journalisten’s revenues has been capturing the job classifieds market for media jobs, which is easier said than done in a more fragmented market such as the UK. Another minor stream of revenue for Journalisten is a database of PR contacts.

But Journalisten is hardly an isolated example: US-based media site Mediabistro, which also earns money from freelance listings, membership fees and training, must have had a decent turnover to have made it a worthwhile acquisition for Jupiter Media.

Swedish Résumé, owned by Swedish media giant Bonnier, is another contender with 15,000 unique visitors per day online and 29,000 readers per week for its magazine.

These are just two examples which spring to mind here and now, does anybody have other suggestions?

Tags: dedicated media news site, Ian Reeves, Kristine Lowe, Michael Heseltine, Nation Union of Journalists, Norway, Press Gazette, The Journalist, United Kingdom

Haymarket boss offers £10,000 reward for money-saving ideas

Michael Heseltine, chairman of Haymarket Media, is offering £10,000 prize money to staff who come up with the best money saving ideas for the publisher, Press Gazette reports.

The money will be divided between those who make the best suggestions by August 31, Heseltine wrote in a email to staff.

“Depending on the volume and nature of the response we will establish a small team of colleagues to appraise the proposals and allocate the £10,000.”

My suggestion: save by not setting up this small team. A winner surely.

Tags: Haymarket Media, Michael Heseltine

Haymarket revamps audio-visual industry site AVinteractive

Haymarket’s title for the audio-visual industry AV has relaunched its website to create a more multimedia resource for readers.

AVinteractive has been fitted out with a new forum and blogs, as well as a commenting function on all articles.

Online polls are another new feature on the site’s homepage and a video channel, RSS news feed and improved site search have also been added.

The redesign was completed in-house by Haymarket.

Tags: Haymarket

Telegraph.co.uk: Press Gazette owner Wilmington faces takeover

Private equity group HgCapital is considering a formal bid for Wilmington, which publishes journalism trade magazine Press Gazette. Full story...

Tags: HgCapital, Press Gazette, Wilmington

Harpers relaunches as TalkingDrinks.co.uk

The website for the wine and spirits industry Harpers.co.uk is relaunching with a new name and expanded coverage of the industry.

The Nexus Business Media title will be called TalkingDrinks.com from July 24 and will include a range of new interactive features, such as blogs and forums, a press release from the publisher said.

Breaking news will continue to lead the site, but the new features will build an online community for the industry, David Shrimpton, Nexus Business Media digital managing editor, said.

Future plans for the site will bring more photo and video content and a personalised MyTalkingDrinks section.

“We don’t do magazines online. We make great magazines, and great online business experiences,” Neil Thackray, Nexus’ chief executive, added.

Tags: David Shrimpton, Harpers.co.uk, Neil Thackray, Nexus, online business experiences, online community

Press Gazette: Chief executive Gary Hughes leaves CMPi

A restructuring of the publisher into four ‘market-focused’ divisions has made Hughes’ role redundant.

Tags: gary hughes

Haymarket merges editorial team for medical titles

Haymarket has merged the editorial teams for its medical titles GP and Independent Nurse.

As part of the changes the publisher has appointed Emma Bower, who launched Independent Nurse four years ago, as editor of GP.

Bower will now take on the editorship of both titles and responsibility for the newly merged team, which will be responsible for producing content across the magazines and the group’s Healthcare Republic website.

“So far, much of the crossover between our print and digital operations has developed on an ad hoc basis. Now we can tailor the structure of the editorial team to properly fit the needs of both platforms, and allow for further growth,” said Colin Cooper, editor-in-chief of Haymarket Medical Media, in a press release.

The integration will take effect from June 16.

Tags: Colin Cooper, Emma Bower, GP, Haymarket Medical Media, Independent

RBI Divestment Watch blog closed?

A blog account of developments with Reed Elsevier’s divestment (that’s sale to you and me) of Reed Business Information (RBI) has been shut down.

Started by an operation’s manager at Elsevier’s Total Jobs Group, Divestment Watch was started in March after the sale of RBI was announced in February.

The blog introduced itself as follows:

“What happens when your division is divested (sold)? What will it mean to me? What is the process? How can I prepare myself? That’s the topic of this blog, focussing on the Reed Elsevier sale of Reed Business.”

The most recent posting on the site is from Tuesday last week, but access to the site is now denied (though a cached version can still be seen).

A post on May 2 said the blog was attracting attention from the company:

“Rumour has it that RE and RBI board members have visited DivestmentWatch, and it has even come up during chats with the bankers (UBS) and the consultants (PWC) so it’s nice to know that there are some people interested and hopefully listening.

“DivestmentWatch has had 5000+ unique visitors so far, and averages about 150 to 200 a day, with a regular core readership of about 50-60 (thanks for your support!). I hope that it has helped you in some way.”

Can anyone shed light on why the blog has been removed?

Tags: Reed Elsevier, UBS