Press Gazette: Express editor Hill leaves PCC after McCann libel payout
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under PCC, Job appointments, Editors' pick, Newspapers | Leave a Comment
Daily Express editor Peter Hill has left the Press Complaints Commission.
The move follows two months after his newspaper (along with its sister Sunday and the Star and Sunday Star) published front page apologies and paid the parents of missing child Madeleine McCann £550,000 in libel damages.
He’s replaced on the 17 strong commission by Mail on Sunday editor Peter Wright.
Read More..>> Full story...Press Gazette: ‘Many millions’ more visitors needed to Guardian.co.uk before it can stop relying on print
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under google, Editors' pick, Newspapers, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Guardian.co.uk needs to rethink its ‘challenging’ business model if it is ever to survive on its own without the printed paper, according to its head of editorial development, Neil McIntosh.
Press Gazette reports McIntosh speaking at the opening of the Brighton Festival, where he said ‘many millions’ more visitors would be needed to the newspaper’s website to sustain current levels of investment in journalism it is making on the web.
Read More..>> Full story...Media Guardian: 15m UK users visted newspaper, claims ComScore
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Newspapers, Traffic, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Nearly 15 million people - 44 per cent of UK internet users - visited newspaper sites during March, according to ComScore web metrics.
The Guardian says that ComScore figures suggest that Sun Online was the most visited UK newspaper site by residents of this country, recording 4.3 million unique users, with Guardian.co.uk second with at 3.6 million.
Telegraph.co.uk had 2.8 million users and Times Online 2.6 million.
Read More..>> Full story...BBC dot.life blog: Twitter and the China earthquake
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, China, Twitter | 1 Comment
BBC Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones muses on Robert Scoble’s claim that Twitter broke the news of the earthquake in China quicker than United States Geological Survey, which provides early warnings of seismic events.
“Let’s see, as this story unfolds, whether this is the moment when Twitter comes of age as a platform which can bring faster coverage of a major news event than traditional media, while allowing participants and onlookers to share their experiences,” suggests Mr Cellan-Jones.
Read More..>> Full story...Inflection Point: Pay per performance for online journos
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Journalism.co.uk wrote a story last week about comments RBI managing director Jim Muttram made to the PPA conference about performance related pay for journalists.
Back on his own blog Jim has posted about the hubbub surrounding the issue.
“If any pay for performance scheme were ever to be implemented in a blanket fashion that very well might be the result - which, for the record, would be a bad thing!
“However, in an online world where attention is firstly more valued and more difficult to get, and secondly increasingly measurable it surely comes as no surprise that questions about how to maximise it arise from time to time.”
I recommend a click through to read the whole post.
Read More..>> Full story...Mashable: Reuters frees content with new API
Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, reuters, multimedia experiments, Technology, Handy Technology, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Reuters Thompson is opening up the way people can use its content across the web by making available a limited range of non-commercial API opportunities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API) through the Reuters Lab.
Reuters could be looking to extend its distribution through this experiment as it will allow developers the change to build new editorial web-based applications using content from Reuters.
However, developers have to make requests to the lab for permission to develop new applications claims Mashable.
Read More..>> Full story...Washingtonpost.com: WaPo signs up TechCrunch for online syndication deal
Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Newspapers, business, blogs, Journalism | Leave a Comment
TechCrunch stories will now appear in the Washington Post website’s technology section as part of a syndication deal between the publishers.
“I think this is a good experiment for the Washington Post - adding new types of content to the site to retain reader interest, over and above their existing stories,” said TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington.
Currently no comments will be allowed on TechCrunch content on the WaPo site - something Arrington hopes will change in the future.
Read More..>> Full story...Toronto Star: Google News respects copyright, says content specialist
Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under google, Copyright, Editors' pick, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Google News respects copyright and is not looking to move into content creation, Josh Cohen, content specialist for the search giant’s news channel, has said in a Q&A with the Toronto Star.
“…[I]t’s really about helping people to find the content that’s out there. We just don’t see ourselves as content creators. We’re more of a platform for that content,” he said.
Read More..>> Full story...Guardian: Times website seeks Sky News link-up
Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under Sky, times, Editors' pick, Video, Digital video, Newspapers, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The Times website wants to carry more video content from Sky News.
Times Online editor-in-chief, Anne Spackman, told MediaGuardian.co.uk that negotiations to make this happen were at an early stage on the newspaper website carrying breaking news videos from Sky.
Any deal is likely to improve the online video offering from the Times.
Despite being one of the first national newspapers to adopt a TV service the Times offering has fallen behind other nationals - in terms of quality - and seems to be due an overhaul.
Read More..>> Full story...Forbes: AP wants a button on iPhone home screen
Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under iPhone, Editors' pick, Mobile, AP | Leave a Comment
The Associated Press wants to grab itself a prime piece of technological real estate, it announced last week that it wants an AP button on the iPhone start-up page for quick access to news.
“There was a button for stocks, there was a button for weather, but there was no button for news,” says Jeffrey Litvack, director of global product development with the AP.
According to Forbes, the AP wants to be the organisation to run any ‘news’ button.
The AP launched its Mobile News Network last week.
Litvack says it can distribute stories from AP reporters and over 100 papers in a single service. He’s hoping its perfect for the iPhone and that Apple is listening.
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