FollowtheMedia (Write On): A look at Al Jazeera English coverage of Gaza

By and large, Al Jazeera is 'doing ok' in its Gaza coverage, writes Philip Stone. He takes a look at the aspects of its reporting and concludes that "its coverage of the Mumbai attacks and now Gaza shows it certainly has logistical advantages in that part of the world, and if it can only keep its reporters and anchors straight for a mainstream international audience, then it really can be a viable cable news alternative to CNN International and BBC World." Full story...

Tags: Al Jazeera English, BBC, CNN International, Gaza, Mumbai, Philip Stone

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CNN.com sees 400 per cent traffic spike by Tuesday afternoon

This from Beet.TV, an interview with CNN.com and CNN International. By 3pm US time, the sites had received 88 million page views this afternoon, three to four times more than on an average weekday, executive vice president of CNN News Services Susan Grant told Beet.TV. In this clip:

• CNN.com Live (with has four simultaneous live streams), had generated 1.6 million views domestically and internationally - seven times higher than an average full day.
• Grant expects today’s (Wednesday’s) traffic to be even higher.
• Grant said that election day concerns were centred on the site’s capacity to handle the traffic, but that it was coping fine so far.
• Grant also discusses CNN’s mobile offerings and its live video feed available through AT&T and Sprint.

Tags: AT&T, AT&T Corp., Barack Obama, beet tv, CNN International, CNN News Services Susan Grant, cnn.com, John McCain, Susan Grant, traffic spike, United States, us election

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Digital developments at CNN: Gustav raises traffic, as new international digital role is created

CNN’s web traffic did rather well out of Hurricane Gustav: a press release issued yesterday told us that breaking news channel CNN.com Live ‘more than doubled its highest day on record on Monday, by serving more than 1.7 million live video streams globally’.

That figure represents a 124 percent increase on their previous highest day - February 21 - when it streamed the debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

In other news, another release announced the appointment of CNN’s first vice president of international digital services: Nick Wrenn, current managing editor for Europe, Middle East & Africa. Although based in Atlanta, Wrenn will manage all of the digital content outside of the US in his new role, bringing together CNN.com/international and mobile with its broadband services.

Wrenn will report to Tony Maddox, executive vice president and managing director of CNN International.

“Our digital services are playing an increasingly important part in the growth of CNN International and this new position ensures that they will be leveraged and incorporated into our current business appropriately,” said Maddox in the statement.

Tags: africa, Atlanta, Barack Obama, broadband services, CNN, CNN International, Hillary Clinton, Hurricane Gustav, International Digital Services, Management Change, Middle East, Nick Wrenn, Tony Maddox, United States, web traffic

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Nielsen Online makes host of UK and EMEA appointments

Stephen Brooks has been appointed as the UK managing director of web analytics firm Nielsen Online. Brooks takes up his new post after working for EMAP, where he was digital director for magazines.

Before EMAP he was publisher of mad.co.uk for seven years, having helped launch the Centaur title in 1999.

Joining Brooks is David Webb as UK client director media research and Matthew Dodd as vice president of research and analytics for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).

Webb was formerly director of digital research worldwide for CNN International, while Dodd leaves the Telegraph Media Group, where he was director of customer insight.

Moving roles within the company, Brad Little has also been named director of industry solutions for the UK team.

Tags: africa, Brad Little, CNN International, David Webb, Emap, Europe, Matthew Dodd, Middle East, Nielsen Online, Stephen Brooks, Telegraph Media Group, United Kingdom, web analytics

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