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TimesOnline tells us what we need to know

January 6th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Handy tools and technology

Not in the Reithian sense… but using the rather nifty feature pictured below:

The Need to Know heatmap gives an overview of current business stories (Monday-Saturday) and indicates their ‘heat’ as generated by reader interest.

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AdAge: News sites can survive with 200m page views a month, says report

December 18th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Online Journalism
A report from ContentNext suggests news websites, from independents to newspapers, can turn a profit if they generate more than 200 million monthly page views. According to the research, a site such as NYTimes.com would need to record 1.3 billion page views a month - this could lead to $300 million in quarterly ad revenues. Full story...

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ThisisMoney.co.uk sees traffic surge in economic downturn

November 5th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Traffic

Another site profiting (well, in terms of traffic anyway) from the current economic situation: Northcliffe’s ThisisMoney.co.uk posted record traffic figures last month.

According to a blog post from the site’s assistant editor Adrian Lowery, ThisisMoney recorded a 23 per cent month-on-month rise in unique users to 1.66 million unique users last month.

Page impressions rose by 43 per cent from September to 14.17 million.

While many financial news sites saw traffic spikes during October, TiM’s coverage of the Icesave issue and the UK banking crisis drove users to the site, Lowery added.

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South China Morning Post (via Editors Weblog): Hong Kong business papers launch paid-for websites

October 28th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Online Journalism
The Hong Kong Economic Journal and Hong Kong Economic Times have both launched new websites with paid-for access models. Subscribers to the Times' site, who will pay HKD598 (£49) a year, will have access to full pages of the newspaper, a three-year archive and real-time markets coverage. Full story...

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FT.com on Robert Peston: the characters shouldn’t get bigger than the brand

October 27th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Newspapers, Online Journalism

Well, although we’re not having a drink in the Long Room we did get to ask FT.com’s Rob Grimshaw about his views on the BBC’s Robert Peston (formerly of the FT). After all, the FT lept to the BBC’s economic editor’s defence last week.

What does Grimshaw, FT.com’s managing director, think of Peston-mania? Journalism.co.uk asked.

“Ah, the all powerful Robert Peston,” Grimshaw laughed.  Individual and ‘big’ personalities are important, he said. “The characters matter. It’s not just about the FT brand – it’s about what these individuals think.

“But I don’t think they can ever be bigger than the brand,” he said. Although, ‘ultimately they are part of core FT message,’ he said.

You can listen to his comments here:

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J.co.uk ain’t in the old boys’ financial club just yet

October 27th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Multimedia, Newspapers, Online Journalism

Journalism.co.uk got a long chat with the FT’s Rob Grimshaw last week, as reported over on the main news channel. He’s been ever so busy talking to lots of media reporters about FT.com’s new, and exclusive, Long Room facility.

Sadly, Journalism.co.uk can’t report back on the exact nature of the Long Room … we did try and sneak in this morning but this has just pinged back:

“Thank you for your application to join FT Alphaville’s Long Room. We regret to inform you that your application has been unsuccessful, as you don’t appear to meet our strict criteria for membership.”

We’re told we can try again if our situation changes. Ho hum. Looks like we’ll be gazing in the windows of the old boys’ club for a while, from the cold and snowy outside. We’d chosen a little profile cartoon and everything.

We did know we weren’t exactly qualified, but our multimedia curiousity got the better of us. To be fair, we probably have don’t have much to take to the online financial ‘table’.

We’ll just have to make do with Markets Live for now.

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Financial round-up: FT Alphaville on Facebook; headlinemoney.co.uk expands

October 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted by Laura Oliver in Online Journalism

The Financial Times’ Alphaville blog is hosting a Q&A session on the world’s credit markets through it’s Facebook group.

Tomorrow between 3-4pm BST (10-11am EST and 7-8am PST) journalists Sam Jones and Stacy-Marie Ishmael issue will be answering questions from users live.

Meanwhile headlinemoney.co.uk, a financial news site, is expanding its free services to general news reporters as they are ‘increasingly covering money-related stories’, a press release from the site says.

Journalists can sign up for special guest passes to the site, which offers a case study request facility, a financial release news wire, background information on financial instutions, and a directory of financial journalists for editors looking to make commissions.

The offer is very much a way to meet the demands of the current economic situation, a spokeswoman for the site told us:

“With no obvious end in sight to the global financial crisis, we are happy to extend the offer for at least a month, or until the end of the year, if the demand for our resource remains high amongst non-financial journalists.

“On the duration front, again, it’s a case of regularly monitoring the situation. Once use of the headlinemoney site by a generalist reporter begins to fall away, then we will be inclined to think it’s a case of job done and will probably switch off access privileges. Those with guest passes can always reapply further down the line if the need should arise again.”

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Press Gazette: FT.com gaining European business readers, says survey

October 14th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Traffic
The number of readers of FT.com among the respondents to the survey, which questioned 'senior decision makers' in 17 European countries, rose from 9.2 per cent in 2006 to 10.3 per cent. Full story...

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Opportunity for business journalists to visit Bangladesh

October 9th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Events

A global consultancy firm is offering the opportunity for senior business journalists and editors to travel to Dhaka to advise Bangladeshi business journalists.

Tahmina Shafique from BMB Mott MacDonald told Journalism.co.uk that they “would essentially want these experts to share their expertise and also provide input to our plan of improving the business sections.”

IFC BICF, who are working with BMB Mott MacDonald, will cover the costs of airfare and accommodation. The workshops and discussion sessions will be tailored to the expertise of the visiting journalists.

The event is part of the ‘Stakeholders Engagement Program’, which aims ‘to build government and non-government stakeholder awareness and advocacy capacity on investment climate issues and the need for reforms for sustainable private sector development in Bangladesh.’

The firms are working with the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce (DCCI) to host a series of events from October 30 – November 3 with the goal of making the country ‘a solid investment location, and establish partnering possibilities with local and foreign investors.’

Business journalists who are interested in the opportunity and would like more information should contact Tahmina Shafique as soon as possible, by emailing tahmina at mottmacbd dot com.

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Guardian.co.uk: Has Robert Peston’s blog got too influential?

October 9th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick
Internet searches for Robert Peston have soared: Matthew Weaver asks has the BBC's business editor become too powerful? Full story...

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