• MediaGuardian: Which? raps advertisers for using digital media to dodge junk food ad ban
  Companies such as McDonald’s and Nestle are using mobile and social networks to target junk food ads at youngsters – avoiding a marketing pledge on such advertising.
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• Dave Lee/jblog: The bashing together of young journalism heads
  Dave Lee suggested a blogging circle of young/new journalists. Journalism.co.uk is looking to host. Suggestions please.
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• Uxbridge Gazette: Uxbridge Gazette relaunches website and rolls out community sites
  The Gazette is the latest Trinity Mirror title to relaunch with a network of local news sites incorporating local bloggers.
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• CNET: Google’s US search share nears 70 per cent
  Hitwise figures suggest the search engine accounted for 69.17 per cent of searches in the US in June.
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• Reuters: Apple sells 1 million new iPhones
  The latest launch of the device in 21 countries has led to a 2 per cent rise in Apple’s stock.
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• Independent.co.uk: World’s oldest blogger dies aged 107
  Olive Riley had recently taken to blogging, posting more than 70 times in the last year.
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• Out with a bang: MyFootballWriter is two-years-old this week…
  Happy Birthday MyFootballWriter – here’s to many more.
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• Official Google Blog: Launch of Google Elections Video Search gadget
  Using speech recognition technologies videos uploaded to YouTube’s politicians channels will be searchable by their spoken content. Users will also be able to jump to a searched for word in the video.
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• BBC: BBC runs first video footage of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr
  The minute-long clip shows Khadr being questioned at the prison camp.
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• Calacanis.com: Co-founder of Weblogs Jason Calcanis announces his retirement
  The CEO of human-powered search engine Mahalo.com has ‘retired’ from the blogosphere.
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• Spokesmanreview.com: Finding the Frame
  Photographers from US regional newspaper finding the frame discuss the story behind their images.
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• NIS News bulletin: Dutch secret service allowed to eavesdrop journalists
  The Dutch Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that allows the country’s AIVD secret service to deploy ’special investigation techniques’ such as phone-tapping following a dispute with De Telegraaf newspaper.
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• Flickr: Reduction in force – a redundancy in photos
  A journalist from the San Jose Mercury News captures his own lay-off by the paper.
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• Thomson Reuters debuts Calais Tagaroo

• PDA:the digital content blog – Rafat Ali: from blogs to riches
  PDA catches up with paidContent editor and founder Rafat Ali, as the site’s owner ContentNext is bought up by the Guardian.
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• HoldtheFrontPage – Sunday Mercury revamps newsroom
  The paper has reorganised its operations along the same lines as sister Trinity Mirror titles the Birmingham Mail and Birmingham Post. Part of the relaunch includes a roster of local bloggers and a new YouTube channel.
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• Jeff Jarvis: Google as the new pressroom
  Newspapers should get out of the printing/technology business. Google (or anyone else who wants to step up) should develop a ‘platform for news’ for the press.
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• Agora plans to buy news channel Superstacja-paper | Industries | Technology, Media & Telecommunications | Reuters
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• Lords advisor: Politicians should not listen to print doomsayers – Journalism news and jobs for journalists – Press Gazette
  Motion “The only future for print media is online” defeated in House of Commons debate. Comments from special adviser to House of Lords’ investigation into media ownership once again raise questions over what the point of it all was.
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• BBC Worldwide extends reach with Babelgum – Brand Republic News – Brand Republic
  Short-form content will be available through three new channels on the internet TV platform.
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• The Other Side Magazine
  Crowd-sourced content creating a magazine and a community around the London Underground’s Northern Line.
• Belgian women’s magazine launches mobile edition | Online Journalism Blog
  Flair magazine has created an interactive mobile magazine compatible with a range of handsets.
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• Qik Adds Privacy Options and Group Video Streaming
  Qik has released one major update and two new features that will make broadcasting your content faster and more streamlined.
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• Advertising Meltdown?: Cuts From Sky, Bauer, News Int. | paidContent:UK
  Some of our biggest media names are culling their ad sales staff, in what could be a sign of precipitous economic times ahead…
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• News | Facebook closes app after second privacy violation – NMA
  Facebook has shut down one of the site’s most popular applications after ‘privacy violations’.
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• Disillusioned Berliner Zeitung staff advertise for new proprietor | Media | guardian.co.uk
  Staff at the Berliner Zeitung newspaper in Germany are so unhappy with their owner, David Montgomery, that they took out an advert in a rival German newspaper advertising for a new proprietor.
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• Social media copyright – a tangled web – Press Gazette
  Using material uploaded to the internet by users of social-media websites like YouTube, Facebook or personal blogs without permission is a risky approach for major publishers, barrister Christina Michalos of 5 Raymond Buildings warned the Media Law Confer
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• What would make you post video comments? | Online Journalism Blog
  Paul Bradshaw asks in a video post: ““What would make you post video comments?”
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• Official Google Blog: Google learns to crawl Flash
  “Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites.”
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• Nielsen: Digg Traffic Sucks. Mashable: That’s What She Said
  “The latest analysis from Jakob Nielsen’s UseIt focuses on “bounce rates” and getting that elusive “second click”. It’s pretty much in line with everything experts have been saying on this topic for the last couple of years: unique visitors ar
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• BBC Drops Microsoft-Backed Skinkers Apps, Switches To Adobe | paidContent:UK
  “The BBC is moving away from desktop apps made by Microsoft-backed Skinkers and instead bringing production in-house, switching to Adobe’s Flash-based cross-platform Flex and AIR frameworks.”
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• Max Mosley defeats News of the World challenge to orgy privacy case – Times Online
  “Max Mosley, the president of motor racing’s governing body, has been allowed to pursue his claim for breach of privacy against the News of the World over its report that he took part in a “Nazi-themed” orgy.”
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• Technical error stops Daily Mirror printing in Republic of Ireland | Media | guardian.co.uk
  “The Daily Mirror was not published in the Republic of Ireland today after technical problems meant the content could not be sent to the printer.”
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• Lost Remote » Digg rolling out ‘recommendation engine’
  This might be cool. Digg has created a new feature — which debuts in beta later this week — that analyzes your past Digging activity to discover “Diggers like you.” You can see what they’re Digging, and by extension discover some of the most int
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• Los Angeles Times to cut 250 jobs, including 150 from news staff – Los Angeles Times
  The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday announced plans to cut 250 positions across the company, including 150 positions in editorial
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• Trinity Mirror shares tumble by 25% after forecasts of low profits | Media | guardian.co.uk
  Trinity Mirror shares today crashed 25% after the group said profits would be 10% lower than expected.
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• Haymarket Media Group chairman Heseltine sounds trading warning despite profit rise | Media | guardian.co.uk
  Lord Heseltine, the chairman of Haymarket Media Group, has warned of tightening trading conditions over the next 18 months, as the magazine publisher today announced a 5% increase in pre-tax profits to £31.7m for last year.
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• Condé Nast to launch Wired magazine in the UK | Media | guardian.co.uk
  Condé Nast will launch a UK version of Wired magazine and its accompanying website next year and has hired the Jewish Chronicle’s editor, David Rowan, to edit it.
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• Trinity Mirror shares suffer record fall – Times Online
  Trinity Mirror shares suffered a record one-day fall yesterday after the newspaper publisher admitted that advertising at the Daily Mirror and its sister titles had collapsed by between 12 per cent and 14 per cent in May and June.
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• Review: Flip Video vs Creative Vado
  “OK – I’m a rubbish reviewer, but here we go.”
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• Michael Grade attacks referral of BBC/ITV/Channel 4 on-demand service Kangaroo to Competition Commission | Media | guardian.co.uk
  ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has criticised the Office of Fair Trading’s decision to refer proposed video on demand service Kangaroo to the Competition Commission, saying there was a “serious problem” with the regulatory framework.
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• Panorama accused of shoddy treatment of bloggers | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk
  “In the sometimes fraught relationship between old and new media, the BBC is the latest organisation to come under the spotlight.”
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