Poynter: Danish newspapers not ‘trustworthy, relevant, or necessary’
Posted on May 16, 2008 - Filed Under research, Europe, Editors' pick, Newspapers, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Writing at Poynter Ernst Poulsen highlights research conducted by Analyse Danmark, which asked 2800 Danes about attitudes to newspapers.
The survey asked: If you could only access daily news through one type of media, which would you prefer to keep?
It wasn’t newspapers.
Half of respondents voted to keep TV, and 27 per cent voted for online.
Only 23 per cent would keep their daily newspaper.
The survey also asked:
Today it’s possible to stay informed without subscription to a daily paper?
The response ‘agree/mostly agree’ received 79 per cent of the vote. ‘Disagree/mostly disagree’ got 16 per cent, and ‘neither/don’t know’ polled 5 per cent.
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...OPA 08: 47% of weekly unique users to BBC News site are non-UK
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under Traffic, BBC, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Pete Clifton, head of editorial development for multimedia journalism at the BBC, has said 47 per cent of the 17 million weekly unique users to the BBC News website come from outside of the UK.
Around half of these users, he told the Online Publishers Association conference, are from the US with a strong ex-pat […]
Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - Using Google Timeline to get a story’s history
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under Top tips for journalists, google, Search, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Story context: Use Google’s Timeline tool to get a story’s history. You can zoom in on specific years. Go to news - news archive search, enter a search term and click the ’show timeline’ button. Tipster: Colin Meek
Got a tip? Submit it here - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.
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...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...A plug for Sky News Unplugged
Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under Sky, Video, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
From tomorrow Sky News will air its new online programme Sky News Unplugged.
The show, which promises ‘a sideways look at the week’s news’, will be available only on the channel’s website and through interactive services on TV.
The programme will later be available on demand through the site’s video channel.
Live: first ever online broadcast of a UK newspaper’s editorial conference
Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under Newspapers, Video, regional, Digital video, blogs, Online Journalism, online communities, Journalism | Leave a Comment
The Liverpool Daily Post will later on today become the first newspaper in the UK to broadcast its afternoon editorial conference live on the web.
Journalism.co.uk will be carrying the stream. Watch it here.
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...Bush gives first online interview to Yahoo
Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under Yahoo, Video, Politics, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
US President George W. Bush will give his first online interview later today in a collaboration between political website The Politico and Yahoo News.
Bush will be questioned on camera by The Politico’s Mike Allen, who will go behind-the-scenes at the White House and ask questions on a ‘colorful mix of serious policy-related topics, and some […]
