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.
Tags: blinkx, Management Change, Nadotti, Video search engineFelix Dennis, the man behind Dennis Publishing and magazines Stuff and The Week, is planning to launch an Australian edition of The Week in October.
Future plans also involve editions for India and Canada.
“I don’t care if I’m investing in a so-called sunset industry. The sun is setting very, very slowly. And there are only two types of businesses: the well run and the badly run. The well run will survive a recession,” he said.
Tags: Dennis Publishing, Felix Dennis, The WeekThe cover will flash ‘the 21st century begins now’ thanks to a battery, which will last for 90 days.
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Hello has relaunched the health and beauty section of its website to include new content and redesign the section in keeping with the rest of the site.
Male readers will be targeted through the new section with health tips and style advice, a press release from the magazine said.
The website attracts 1.5 million monthly unique users according to figures from its January Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic (ABCE) audit.
Tags: Hellomagazine.comTotalPolitics, the website published by former 18DoughtyStreet blogger Iain Dale, has gone live today.
The site and magazine, which are described as ‘a lifestyle magazine dedicated to all things political’, will report on all that’s positive within the UK’s political scene.
Three group blogs feature on the site in addition to political blog listings and a database of political speeches and quotations
The majority of the content from the print edition will feature online alongside these new features, Dale wrote in a blog post on his personal blog.
Tags: Iain Dale, United KingdomIn case you hadn’t noticed, Journalism.co.uk was in Sweden last week covering the World Association of Newspapers annual conference and the World Editors Forum.
So no one misses out, here’s a round-up of what went down while we were away:
Guardian: BBC ends ‘licence fee’ plans for international news website
The Beeb has dropped proposals for subscription-based access to BBC.com
WSJ.com: Analysis of hyperlocal news site LoudounExtra.com
Following the departure of Rob Curley, chief architect behind the Washington Post spin-off site, WSJ asks if the site has found its audience a year into the project.
Editor&Publisher: 94 newspapers join Yahoo partnership
A total of 779 newspapers now have access to the search engine’s advertising technology and HotJobs ads.
Daily Mail: Sir Ian Blair advocates use of celebrity news videos as evidence in drug trials
Footage, such as the Sun’s infamous Amy Winehouse video and of Kate Moss snorting a white substance, should be presented to the jury in such cases, Blair has said.
Guardian: BBC’s new plans for personalisation of website
Plans to create a new rating, recommendation and personalisation system across bbc.co.uk will be put to the BBC Trust, according to the corporation’s latest programme policy statement.
Editor’s Weblog: Washington Post launches online publishing company
The Slate Group will feature a host of digital titles including Slate and The Root, with additional launches planned.
Telegraph.co.uk: Update on revamp of community blogging platform MyTelegraph
Communities editor Shane Richmond says a relaunch date will be announced by the end of next week.
Matthew Ingram: Globe and Mail removes pay wall
Number of subscribers was not enough to maintain the wall, says Ingram, who works for the paper. Some readers remain unconvinced, he says, pointing out one comment: “You can’t shut us out for a few years and then expect us to come back just because it’s free.”
MediaShift: Everyblock releases first special report
The hyperlocal data and news site has mapped information from a recent Chicago police bribery investigation as part of its first special report.
IPC Media has launched a website for its fashion title Look - its first magazine site designed out of house.
The new site, launched last week, offers fashion and beauty news alongside an online shopping facility.
The design will aim to capitalise on the 77 per cent of the magazine’s readers, which research suggested, access the web every day, a press release from the publisher said.
The site will be headed by online editor Jayne Cherrington-Cook, who has previously worked with Yahoo and AOL.
Tags: AOL, Jayne Cherrington-Cook, magazine site, online shopping facility, YahooHaymarket 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, IndependentThe Economist has revamped the homepage of its website cutting the length and the number of adverts on the page.
A letter on the site announces the key changes:
“Those of you who were familiar with (and even fond of) the previous version will naturally wonder: why the change? We wanted to do three main things—make the page simpler, deeper and more enjoyable for the reader,” says the announcement.
Comments on the redesign are welcomed and an online feedback form has been set up.
Reactions so far have been largely negative with criticism for the ‘uncluttered’ look and one commenter remarking: “It feels like going from Web 2.0 to Web 0.1″.
Tags: online feedback formHello magazine is introducing two new mobile services to deliver celebrity news.
Subscribers to MMS alerts will receive daily updates from Monday to Friday of the latest news from the website including an image, while SMS subscribers will be sent the latest headline.
“A launch of a mobile service has been long overdue, and I feel that it will be an important addition to our digital canon. A natural extension of a web presence is a mobile offering,” said Verity J. Smart, editor of the magazine, in a press release.
Users will be charged £1 for MMS messages and 25p for SMS, though monthly bills for each service will not exceed £23 and £10 respectively.
To sign up for the service users should text HELLO1 to 62233 for MMS alerts and HELLO2 to 62233 for SMS, or visit the mobile registration page of the site.
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